This workshop, led by wilderness guide Pekka Mikkonen, will show how fires were started with various methods before the invention of matches and lighters. These methods include, for example, friction heat, quartz stones and steel spikes and tinderboxes. Various forms of friction heat were used in the Stone Age and are still used even today […]
Ari Laakso will present a traditional boat carved from an aspen trunk at Reippi sauna on both event days from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM and from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
This workshop, led by wilderness guide Pekka Mikkonen, will show how fires were started with various methods before the invention of matches and lighters. These methods include, for example, friction heat, quartz stones and steel spikes and tinderboxes. Various forms of friction heat were used in the Stone Age and are still used even today […]