Harrisuvanto in Pieni Karhunkierros
May 19th, 2009 by Juha Ylitalo
Harrisuvanto is our second spot in Pieni Karhunkierros (“Short Bear’s Ring”), which is subset of Karhunkierros (“Bear’s Ring”) hiking trial. Name of the place (Harrisuvanto) comes from two words Harri and suvanto. Harri means grayling (Thymallus thymallus) and suvanto means still water. Based on these words and what I’ve found from internet, this place has been (and probably still is) good place for fishing grayling and other fishes, which are native to rivers in Kuusamo region.
Depending on a season,gear and how you feel about mosquitoes, it can be good place for having lunch break by the water, since this place has nice laavu, room for setting up a tent and pier into river. When you continue your journey from here, you will arrive to a suspension bridge. Old maps and tales would indicate, that this place used to have a rope across river and you had to pull yourself to the other side of the river on a rowboat or ferry. Nowdays there is simply too much traffic going along this trail for this kind of solution and as such suspension bridge makes sense. Still, it would have been fun to try ferrying yourself across the river on a boat.
