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Researching with Proximity
We are being told: ‘It is perhaps not wise to go to trekking during ‘räkkä’
time, the mass occurrence of insects—mosquitoes, blackflies, and midges—
during the northern summer.’ As experienced trekkers, we already know
this, but we have no option: this is the only weekend possible for us to go
for a hike, and we are eager. I only wish for a miracle, to avoid having very
many mosquitoes as our travel companions. We decide to head to the open
fells around Kilpisjärvi, the arm of Finland, between Norway and Sweden.
While we estimate that there would be less ‘räkkä,’ local reindeer herders,
experts on this matter, tell us that with this weather we will not escape the
mosquitoes
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