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Ice hole swimming

Sheep Shagger · 2022-04-30 12:04:48

Would like to do this next winter, looks like it's most common in Finland. This place looks centrally located in Helsinki itself (some places seem remote and need a car etc). Has anyone been to this place, it looks like you can go in sauna after going into the baltic sea? https://www.loylyhelsinki.fi/en/

30-04-2022 12:04pm

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Would like to do this next winter, looks like it's most common in Finland.
This place looks centrally located in Helsinki itself (some places seem remote and need a car etc).
Has anyone been to this place, it looks like you can go in sauna after going into the baltic sea?
https://www.loylyhelsinki.fi/en/

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#2 30-04-2022 1:13pm

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Wasn’t in that particular place but it’s common in Finland. They call them polar bears or winter swimming clubs but you intersperse dips with sauna.

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#3 01-05-2022 2:06pm

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Thanks, can you remember the name of the place you went to?
Anywhere near a Ryanair airport? Otherwise its Finnair.

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#4 01-05-2022 2:26pm

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There will be somewhere to go ice swimming almost anywhere in Finland. I’d recommend going in early March and fitting in some other winter activities too. You can rent cottages with saunas beside a lake eg in the national parks.

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