The Team Sherpa Blog

While staying here in France, I’ve spent much time in a hiking team that promotes the slogan “Hiking is for all of us”. This means that no matter what your physical condition is, that shouldn’t deny you the right to enjoy nature and fresh air. And I think that is one fine idea.In our team, there are people with limited capability of movement, people who
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The first weekend of March didn’t exactly offer us the crispy, sunny weather we had hoped for. In the mountains of Vosges, northeastern France, a damp wind greeted us. And most of the views, that we had looked forward to see, were covered in thick mist. From time to time the clouds also managed to encourage themselves to sport a little sprinkle of rain upon
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I’ve had some serious bad luck with my laptop, and haven’t been able to post in here for a while. Now to get back on track, I will write some of my thought about next weekends hike to the Vosges. We are parting with a group of dozen peoples to the Vosges region in northeastern France. The weather forecast has promised a nice, but crispy
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Last Sunday I buckled up my new shoes, took a compass in hand and headed on to discover the local Laxou-forest. When I made it to the forest, the first thing I noticed was that I had entered a completely different zone of plantation. There were hardly any pinetrees or other conifers that I am used to seeing in a Finnish forest. Instead, there were
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Whew. I’ve managed to survive three days in a completely new country, France. In the past few days I’ve been running up and down the streets of Nancy, taking papers from here to there and trying to get to know the city. Fortunately I had my new shoes here waiting for me, otherwise I think my feet wouldn’t have kept up wit the pace of
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