Lemmenlaakso, Järvenpää 29/6/2014
On a rainy Sunday we headed to Lemmenlaakso (Love valley) nature trail in Järvenpää. We hadn't been there before but a guide book I recently bought told the place was a good destination for a day walk.
The first part of the trail was easy to walk but the nearer we came river Keravanjoki the clayier the soil got. The rain had turned the path into a slippery slide and we had hard time not slipping. Sorry - no pics of that part of the trail!
The water in the river was clayey, too: we had tap water in our bottles but I guess it would have been quite troublesome to filter this water into drinking water.
The banks of the river are subject to erosion and many trees had fallen into the water. It is easy to see on the map how the river meanders.
We got a little muddy but had enjoyed the day out.
I love the sound of the name Lemmenlaakso Maria (that's if it's pronounced the way I think it is). Those duckboards look decidedly slippery, had it been our group I think we'd have had the misfortune to have had at least one accident.
ReplyDeleteThe fallen trees made me think of beavers and I know you have beavers in Finland, have you ever come across them at all ?
A fine wet walk, I'm sure we in the Wigtownshire ramblers will soon be out in the rain again.
Nice pictures
Hi Jim, I haven't seen any beavers, but I've seen places where they live and dams they've built.
DeleteFinnish has a very phonemic orthography so it is easy to guess how a Finnish word is pronounced!
Oh, the duckboards were somewhat slippery, but not as slippery as in Karkali the following day...