Biking around Oulu: some pictures

This post has absolutely nothing to do with electronics, but anyway. Oulu region has considered itself to have great biking routes and I have to agree - just a short biking distance away from downtown you can bike (or hike) on forest paths, likely without meeting anyone else. Short distance of course is somewhat relative, but within, say, 10 km there is already plenty to choose from, although paths near populated areas naturally have more people on them. So instead of maybe one person on path that is farther away you'll meet five.

I prefer not to bike same routes every time, instead trying to find new routes I haven't biked before. When getting further away from downtown this gets a bit more difficult at some point as many forest paths are often dead ends, instead of getting from a larger road to another. While I try to avoid worst paths, sometimes my route selections aren't always... umm, optimal.

This is a track left by some forest machine, like this for example, and water is about 20cm deep, with soft ground below. Not exactly prime biking ground (and I actually ended up pushing the bike while standing on firmer ground on sides). Before this, there were a maybe a kilometre or two of sand, then route changed to essentially swamp for about a kilometre before getting better again. It paid out however;

Sanginjoki region has some great biking and hiking routes. This is from Kalimenlampi (lake Kalime) where I stopped shortly before proceeding to drive back home (via much easier path than one above). There are of course multiple better routes there than the one I picked this time, also many accessible with a normal car. I just like to pick and try new routes over ones I've driven before whenever possible.

This is from few years ago from Kalime's campfire location (small "hut" that can be seen on background on above picture) on evening around this time of year when nights start to get dark again after sunny "nightless nights" of north.

From another trip, this is from old, large sawmill area near the sea near Pateniemi area. It used to be quite badly polluted, but there's been a cleanup going and at the moment there are apparently plans to build homes there.

Panning above slightly left. Unfortunately (from my point of view) building this area will mean the loss of nice bike-able/walk-able outdoors area but apparently money talks.

Next time, back to actual electronics.