Winter Wonderland

[salad days]

Sure makes draggin deer alot easier.

[1/2primitive]

Being from Wisconsin, now down in Texas, I miss the snow.
Thanks for the pictures, you lucky duck.
    Sean

[DanaM]

Sean I didn't know you were a cheesehead

[a finnish native]

DA Heiki Luunta Snow Dance Song



1. I REMEMBER BACK IN ‘58 WHEN I WAS JUST A LAD
I WENT UP TO THE COPPER COUNTRY HUNTING WITH MY DAD
THE GROUND WAS BARE AND FROZEN SO WE COULDN’T TRACK NO DEER
SO MY OLD MAN GOT HIS KNAPSACK AND HE FILLED IT UP WITH BEER
HE SAID WE GOTTA TAKE A HIKE WAY OUT IN THE WOODS
THERE’S THIS GUY NAMED HEIKKI LUNTA HE’S CRAZY BUT HE’S GOOD
WE’LL LET HIM DRINK A COUPLE BEERS AND WHEN HE STARTS TO GLOW
HE’LL DO THE HEIKKI LUNTA DANCE AND THEN JUST WATCH IT SNOW
CHORUS:
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE HEIKKI LUNTA DANCE
MAKE IT SNOW, SNOW, SNOW HEIKKI LUNTA SNOW
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE HEIKKI LUNTA DANCE

2. I REMEMBER IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE 15 YEARS AGO
ALL THE KIDS WERE CRYING CAUSE THEY DIDN’T HAVE NO SNOW
ACCORDING TO THE WEATHERMAN THEY DIDN’T HAVE A CHANCE
BUT THE WEATHERMAN DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE HEIKKI LUNTA DANCE
HEIKKI PUT HIS SNOWSHOES ON AND GRABBED A CAN OF BEER
HE PUT ON HIS GIANT PARTRIDGE WINGS AND ANTLERS FROM A DEER
THEN HE GRABBED A CEDAR BRANCH AND DANCED AROUND THE YARD
EVERYBODY SAID THEY NEVER SEEN IT SNOW SO HARD


3. I RECALL A TOURNAMENT OUT AT SUICIDE
ALL THE SNOW WAS MELTING AND WE COULDN’T GET A RIDE
ONE CRAZY FINN CAME DOWN THE HILL AND LANDED ON THE ROCKS
THEY SENT HIM BACK TO FINLAND IN A HOMEMADE CEDAR BOX
WE LOOKED FOR HEIKKI LUNTA BUT HE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
WE COULDN’T DO NO JUMPING WITH NO SNOW ON THE GROUND
IT WAS CARL PELLONPAA WHO FINALLY SAVED THE DAY
WE DID THE HEIKKI LUNTA DANCE I THINK IT SNOWED TILL MAY
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What are the origins of this song? I have never heard about it. Lunta is "some snow" in English.

Here where I live it has been quite cold for some time already. I saw the first snow on the 8th of October this year. Then shortly after that we went hiking to the wilderness for some time and it snowed about 1' (30cm or so?) in just two days. on the slopes of the fells there was snow up to my knee in some spots. For a week the temperature has been between -20C and -5C. Today we got a little rain, but it will freeze up during the night and decrease to around -15C again.
Man I love wintertime.

Here are some pics from UKK national park where we were hiking. Not taken by me, but it shows the place around the end of December. Changed the last pic because the link did not work. The last link is the best I think

http://tunturiin.fi/kuvat/kaamos.jpg
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~rysoopa/arkisto/vaellukset/kaamos2003/loikkarit/files/image024.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/cloudybay/cb_Retkeily/inari/nakyma.jpg

[El Destructo]

                               Heikki Lunta is just a Yooper legend or myth you might say....sorta like Santa!!!

This Song and the others that followed were written back in the early 70's....by Yooper for Yoopers!! They originated in the Upper peninsula of Michigan where it snows 6 moths out of the Year....and they Blame Heikki for the Snow....and then beg Him for it when it doesnt snow!!

[a finnish native]

I see 

[kyleM]

                                                 Dana....this is some of what I really miss............

                                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrJ9s36k1uU

                                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ziut31VJo



                                We used to do both on Teal Lake in Negaunee every Winter....it was a Blast............

Man i wish i had pictures and videos of my snowmobile i used to have. Ask my dad how loud and fast it was   it was a 1998 Arctic Cat ZRT 800 Triple, it had psi racing exhaust on it, it was cluthed, racing reeds, long track with over 280 studs, with inch 1/2 paddle track. It would easily hit 120 with the ski's off the ice with me on it. 

[DanaM]

Yup it went until I burnt da garage down with da sled in it

BTW still snowing here

[D. Tiller]

Sunny today in the 50's.

[1/2primitive]

Sean I didn't know you were a cheesehead

Yes, Dana, I was born a cheesehead.  In Green Bay.
    Sean

[D. Tiller]

Raining today, temp in the 40's. Expect snow on saturday morning. Temp at night expected in the 20's. We do get a blow in from Alaska once in a while. The bummer is the humidity. Cold shoots right to the bones and there is no sun!

[ricktrojanowski]

Dana
I sure do miss those UP winters.  It is so boring here.  As soon as it looks like it is going to snow,  the cold air hits the warmer ocean and RAIN

[DanaM]

I'll take the snow over the rain thats fer sure eh. Been snowing everyday but only a little at a time, forcast for the next week is snow everyday.
Bad part of winter is never seeing the sun Been a week since the sun popped out and looks like it will be another week or so before we see any sunlight.
The lack of sun is harder to deal with than the snow and short days

[ricktrojanowski]

Dana-
That gray sky inspired the Michigan Gray color in crayola crayons.

[mullet]

 I'll take that bright, hot, sun and Bikinis all day long