In fall, the inhabitants of Finland open their appetite for 3 things, collection of wild mushrooms, warming in a smoking sauna, and fishing. On Friday 25 September 2015, a friend of mine at UN-Wider University invited me to join his fellow colleagues in the excursion to the suburb of Helsinki, destined for mushroom collection, fishing and Sauna. As an equivocal fan of mushrooms, I accepted the invitation without hesitation.
The rocks we have been standing on were created before 2 billion years ago. The forest-covered plateau was once a big mountain ridge. It was due to the ice age and the melting of the ice that eroded the mountains and to become dwarf plateaus like this tells Daniel, who was one of the tour members.
Finland’s natural and artificial forest cover provides an excellent ecosystem to the proliferation of wild mushrooms. The wet and humid weather condition coupled with moderate temperature is presumptuously what favors to boost the lavish abundance of mushrooms in the wild.
I enjoyed by the diversity of the mushroom species in the wild, the heat of the smoking sauna and the shrinking power of cold lake water in which we repeatedly immersed ourselves directly getting out of the sauna room at the brink of the lake.
