First pre summer hike

Prequel 

After my Christmas walk me and few of my best friends gathered and did a winter hike. We gathered around at 10 am on Saturday morning and took a bus to Kanepi. We hiked to Kooraste Metsamaja on 20th of January. Total 14.8 kilometeres.

We slept overnight at the Metsamaja and hiked back to Kanepi in the morning. Trip back was 10.8 kilometers. 

We experienced a lot, imagine, you have back-bags filled with clothes, food, drinking water, sleeping-bag, mattress  and find 3 additional crazy persons to join the idea, the trip and make it, enjoy it. Having some fun.

It was actually quite amazing, we had a lot of fun and this gave us kickoff for next trips. 

From that trip we planned another hike, now bigger, more kilometers and especially because me and Mihkel planned a trip of 100 kilometers on the 29th of July, starting from 00:00 am and finishing 11:59 pm. We needed to prepare and we had planned out the next hike.

Pre Summer Hike On 1st of July

This time it was so much easier since we didn't need to take heavy back-bags and so much drinking water. We could get water everywhere.

Again we started by taking a bus, but now a ride from Tartu  to Mustvee. Starting from Mustvee we hiked 13.6 km to Tammispää camping. The road there was pretty much major road and we took forest trails as much as possible, but still it wasn't pleasant.

The company was excellent, we had another extra member this time with us. There was't so much to see on the walk there, we had small round trip in the forest which was good.

When we got to Tammispää camping we were surprised, we had fresh water, extra mattress, clean bed sheets, even electricity and it was around few hundred meters from Lake Peipsi. The water was cold but still a small swim was in order. After we finished grill we had another visitor, local cat who enjoyed our company.


The weather was warm and since it was also bit windy then we didn't have to worry about mosquitoes. Played some cards and pepaired for hike forward tomorrow. Goal to get to Kauksi beach. Additional 20.1 km of hiking. 

RMK has got really lovey camp site near there. Raadna vacation area.

One of our Friends tripped back to Mustvee and for some reason we didn't see that the same bus comes from Kauksi to Mustvee, so he left us at some point of time and we went forward. Surprisingly we caught up with him and at some point he missed his bus stop so he took a leap of faith and believed that the same bus what brings us to Tartu has also stop in Mustvee. Lucky it happened.

We need to start planning next trip, but in between there will be 100 km in one day hike. #100kmday will happen. Live feed from my Facebook.