New Year's Day

New Year's Eve here in Lappeenranta, was windy, cloudy and a bit rainy. Temperature +2 C. Therefore I passed  a chance to capture photos of firework show and went to bed right after midnight.

It was a good choice, because New Year's Day started in a nice weather. Temperature was still +1 C and hardly no wind and the sun was shining. Because of rains yesterday, all roads were cover by slippery ice, but with studded shoes it was more safer to walk.

Lake ice looks also safe, but it probably isn't yet, because there is thin layer of strong ice on water and above that 10-20 cm wet snow and now after couple of rainy days visible surface has again got thin layer frozen water. I did a quick test at the shore. Let's hope that we get more cold days without any new snow and then conditions will get much better in days.

Today I did over 20 kms walk to get 20 geocaches logged and reach a new milestone with 4000 logged geocaches. Hooray for that :)