Eeva-Liisa Hakala

Working for sports and forests

Once again I packed and started another trip. One night in Tampere and from there I headed to MTBO Team Finland training camp. It was held around Finnish capital city. Hunders of controls for atheletes to find in many different trainings. Even I didn´t train and were just "organizing" and helping in multiply tasks I´m feeling almost as ...

Photo: Pasi Pyykönen

Had a great time in Mallorca, once again. Thank´s for xc skiing I had enough endurance training done and I was able to keep up with others. Sure my electric bike helped a bit, specially at the uphills. But mainly our rides were so long that ...

Instead of the original plan my summer job will be somewhere deep in Kainuu forests. It´s the same employer as I had during last summer. Now I´m organizing my living facilities to make it. 

There are still very good ski weather in Finland. But my mind is already waiting for a road bike camp. This time I´...

Some new expirience with a friend. Biathlon could have been or become my thing  .

No words needed in such a beautiful place  .

I had some time to go in the forest also. Enjoyed from it!

Nowadays I´m a student. But forest works are waiting for me during the next summer. There are also coming some maintenance works in Europe. Starting in next week when I´m heading to Portugal near Évora

I froget to chek the code, I punched on wrong control. It´s no big deal for me, but I caused that my manager also did the same! We were discualified!

Kuvat // Photos: Jorma Taini

I am currently working with a small forest compartment doing thinning in it.  This means taking away some of the smallest trees to make more space for the bigger and stronger ones to grow.  My goal is to be finished by the New Years eve, but we'll see...  Luckily forest is a flexible friend, it is not so significant whether you manage to work on today or tomorrow.  Not even by weeks or months.  But certainly years do matter.  For example this compartment I am ...