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Ski resort in Finland

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Please, kindly help me out.
Where in Finland can one ski during New Year holidays close by to Helsinki with a lot of snow? Puzzled
Thanks a lot in advance for all suggestions!!!
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atinuke, Sorry to say this, the nearest skiresort from Helsinki is Ruka, 822km and minimum 10h driving, and its only have 200m of vertical drop Sad
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But there is alot of crosscountry tracks just outside Helsinki Very Happy
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You can ski (alpine) nearer Helsinki - if you're not expecting a large ski resort. In 2006 I had an evening (under floodlights) on the slopes at Kalpalinna, which is maybe about an hour from Helsinki (if I remember correctly). The web site is only in Finnish - the skiing section is near the bottom.

Kalpalinna only has a couple of short pistes, with T-bars and rope tows. I'll post some pictures later (at present I don't seem to be able to access the snowBase). However, if you're in Helsinki for other reasons and desperate to ski (and don't mind belting up and down the same pistes all the time), you could enjoy a few hours there. And Toni Sailer and Ingemar Stenmark have skied there (also other Olympians), so you'd be in good company!

There's a ski jump (it is Finland), should you get bored Laughing

You can also hire skidoos, which are fun. And as others have said, there's plenty langlauf. There may also be other similar small hills in the vicinity of Helsinki.
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Here are the promised photos.

Ski hire is available.


Here is the one slope under floodlights.


And the other pistes the next day...


...when we went back to try skidooing



All photos from February 2006. I can't remember if the lifts only run in the evenings or during the day too (though there are skiers in the daytime shot).
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freeheelskier, thanks a lot, I know that is the best place to enjoy Finland is
Lapland, I agree 100%. Me and my family would love too, but the distance! For us to get there we have to take two night trains and we have 2 years old baby with us. We are looking for something like that but closer to Helsinki.
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espri, thank you for info and pix
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
How about Tahko, did anyone ever ski there and how is it for beginners?
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Tahko is 5 hours from helsinki, so not exactly close. It's pretty steep in places, comparable to the lapland resorts. But there's other stuff to do, skidoo, xcountry, a spa etc.
For just beginners there's a couple of slopes by helsinki, one is http://www.serena.fi/. This place is only 30mins from the center of helsinki, has some tiny slopes, but also a water park.

Around new years snow is going to be iffy, but they usually do a good job with making snow so the slopes are sure to be open.
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I was thinking about what you can call skiresort, there is some clubhills in the most part of Finland, but the vertical drop is from 30m to, I think maximum 80m, Finland is generaly very flat, but there is alot of other way to enyoy the snow Very Happy
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Isn't there only about a half hour of daylight in Finland at New Year?

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