Listening to the trees of Kalkkivuori

When I’m in the middle of a forest, I use to stop and turn the engine off to rest and enjoy the relaxing atmosphere. The video below was taken in this location of my Kalkkivuori trip, when strong winds waved the branches.

I know it’s cynical that I enjoy the forest peace when I’m the one disrupting it with my motorcycle. I care about nature and I always feel bad about the stress that I may cause to the forest wildlife, but my joy of driving there is stronger. I really wish I had an electric motorbike. Unfortunatelly the few existing off-road models are crazy expensive and have a really short range. Some day.

By the way, that video was taken with my cellphone, but I plan to get a proper action camera and post videos of my next season’s trips.

Finnish 112 app

I have always worried about how I could tell my location in the middle of a forest if I needed emergency asistance. Quite often I’m in paths with no name, or even paths not mapped by Google. A friend of mine gave me the answer: the Finnish 112 app, available for Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile. When you make an emergency call with the app, the emergency services automatically get your location. You can also specify your spoken language, english among them. You can read instructions in english here.

Fortunatelly, I haven’t tried it and I hope I don’t ever have to.