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Please
note:
These cabins do NOT have electricity, WC
or running water. They require outdoor attitude and skills. You MUST know for
example:
- how to read a map
- how to make fire
- how to use an iron-stove
- how to saw and chop wood
- have basic knowledge of the Finnish climate
On wintertime: have basic outdoor
skills in winter conditions, i.e. understand the importance of warm clothing,
how to make water from snow etc.
There is:
- bunk beds (with mattress and pillow)
- a wood-heated iron stove for cooking and heating the cabin
- an earth-closet
- candlesticks
- kettles, a frying pan
- buckets
- a saw, an axe
You
need to bring with you:
- drinking water
- the keys (see below)
- sleeping bags
- matches
- candles / flashlight
- cutlery (knives, plates etc.)
- food. Attention: Do your shopping in Helsinki or Espoo City, because there
aren't any shops in Nuuksio area!
- a proper map over Nuuksio National Park. The brochure is not enough!
Helsinki: Bookstore Akateeminen or Map Shop Karttakeskus. Ask for the
Nuuksio-Luukkaa map.
When
you arrive at the cabin
- make sure the dampers are open (do not
close them at all)
- fill the oil lamps with lamp oil (you'll find it from the shed)
- the key of the shed is hanging on the wall of the cabin
- make sure that the ashes are removed from the stove
- in Oravankolo: to get more light into the sauna, you need to hang a oil
lamp outside the window of the sauna
Before
leaving the cabin
- tidy up the cabin
- wash the dishes
- empty the buckets from water (in Oravankolo empty the water container
situated in sauna, too)
- place the buckets upside down, so they don't collect water (voles can drown
in there)
- fill the oil lamps with lamp oil
- make sure there is enough chopped firewood for the next visitor
- put all tools in the shed
- remove the ashes from the stove (and sauna)
- sweep the floor
- In Oravankolo: place the racks which are on the floor of the Sauna against
the wall of the sauna and leave the vent open
- make sure the dampers are open (do not close them at all)
- remove all the leavings (food) from the cabin, do not leave any food you
brought with you
- sign the guest book
- remember to lock the doors (of the shed and the cabin)
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