In February of 2021 I moved to the small town “Salla” located in Finnish lapland near the border of Russia to escape the city lights. Located slightly above the arctic circle with minimal light pollution it was an excellent place to observe the northern lights. This is where I would stay until late December and then my adventures took me a little further north to Sodankylä.
The aurora season of 2021 - 2022 was mostly done in those two locations and you could say it was the first one for me.
The Green Spiral
Living under the Northern Lights
The Church of Salla
Somewhere in Kittilä
Haunted Woods
Night at the Lake
Aurora over Sallatunturi
Peacock
The Aurora Bridge
Eye of the Aurora
Start of the Season
Streets of Salla
Chilly
In the Middle of Nowhere
Aurora Through the Clouds
NASA Rocket & Aurora
Lunar Circumzenithal Arc
Spark
Above
Bird Aurora over Sodankylä
Roads of Sodankylä
Forests of Sodankylä
Angels under the Aurora
Cycling in the Arctic Wilderness
Huge Aurora over Sodankylä
Just a Walk
Chaser
Aurora over a Swamp in Sodankylä
Red Aurora during the Full Moon
Swamp
Auroras over Saana
One of the last high-lights of this season was when I booked a trip to Kilpisjärvi with an old friend of mine from the school days who I just happened to meet on a Facebook group “revontulikyttääjät” meant for Finnish aurora chasers. Three months later I moved to this small village and is where I would spend the entire next season.
