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Buying powder Ruka

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today! A quick word on blocking ads. It looks like you are using an ad blocker. That's okay. Who doesn't? But without advertising revenue, we can't keep making this site awesome. Click the link below for instructions on disabling adblock. How to disable ad-blocker for Newschoolers. I don't care about Newschoolers. I just want free content and no ads! Register Lost password? Move to Category. Close Save. Member of the Month BallClapper September, I've been invited by the girlfriends family to their yearly ski trip and this year they are heading to Ruka. I then realized that I actually know very little about the resort other than it pumps out a lot of sick skiers and has a really good park. Any advice or things you think one should know before going would be much appreciated! Nov 26 AM. What kind of info are you looking specifically? It feels like an IRL Instagram or a video game when you get to see the general level of the riding there compared to Finnish resorts at least for the first time. Camerontaylor I've been invited by the girlfriends family to their yearly ski trip and this year they are heading to Ruka. It may give answers to some of your questions. E: quoting did not work, here's the raw text: Hello, I'm going to toss in a long time local's opinion since I basically grew up there had a season pass from until As you might already know, Ruka has the best park out of all the resorts in Finland. The kind of a 'cult reputation' has only strengthened the park's development and marketing of the resort for park skiing of course. The park attracts good skiers from all over Finland, Russia and Scandinavia and apparently from all over the world nowadays. Also, the skiing 'highschool' is located there for racing and freestyle , so quite many good skiers live there. Back in the day, I didn't even realize how good the park actually was until I went to other resorts. If you literally only want to ski park, then you might want to consider, but read the rest. While the park is great, other types of skiing are kind of lacking for the most part from a general freestyle skiers point of view. The conditions are pretty cold and icy for most of the season. Still, skiing pow is very fun at best. But remember, it's a pretty small resort really, so all the best powder skiing spots are going to be scoured in a couple of hours after opening. The groomed slopes are taken care of very well. There are many slopes that vary in difficulty, but most of them are pretty short the longest slope is meters in length, though. There are loads of family activities to do in the village, including husky riding, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, ice-fishing, bowling etc etc. The main town of Kuusamo is like any other small town with the basic services. If you want to have constant action, the area is not for you: Trust me I lived there for 20 years lol, the main city is basically dead. You can draw a km radius circle around Ruka and it would not have any 'bigger cities' inside of it. But it might be enough for you, who knows. During certain times of the year opening day, new years eve, Ruka Spring Break the resort has wild action and parties though, so check those out. The Finns speak English pretty well, as you would expect from a well educated country in general. Language barrier shouldn't be a problem for the most part. I have never worked at a ski resort I assume that's what where you're implying you'd work in , but you can try applying to some open vacancies around the shops, rentals, restaurants or whatever. Can't really help you with the work question. I am not sure of the accommodation situation there, but you can prolly get a fairly cheap rental apartment from the main town, or the resort area somewhere. If you are looking to be a 'ski bum' who works nights and skis days, I'm not sure if it's worth it. The opportunities are not too special compared to the bigger mountains. Still, Ruka is a great resort and very popular. Ruka also has one of the longest ski seasons out of all EUROPEAN resorts if you don't count the ones that do summer skiing, actually Ruka used to have that too, but not anymore. So suite for yourself, do your research, and even if you decide not to pick Ruka, I'd hope you visit there one day for a week or something. Compared to southern Finland where the season is half shorter and x icier, Ruka is practically heaven for the most part of the season. You're probably correct. I'd assume that the winters are a bit warmer nowadays, even compared to pre-early 's. I cannot recall many proper pow days from my youth, but I can certainly remember many frosty and windy days we spent in the park. It is honestly astonishing to see so much off-piste skiing content from Ruka nowadays on ig etc. But I was mostly a weekend warrior, who knows if the proper skiing happened on weekdays :. I went for a few days last year over New Years and absolutely loved it. The park is insane. Awful photo but this is what it looked like at at breakfast at the hotel. Sun came out one day and it was basically just an instrument for creating insane colors on the horizon. Def go if you can. Nov 26 PM. The scenery is amazing though, which compensates for the short slopes. There are many winter hiking trails for example. Ruka is about half as expensive most US resorts. Man that place looks like heaven I really wanna go there. It's cold. Some of the resorts in the south have ridiculous early bird prices tho. Sappee, my home hill, which I've had a season pass for three last seasons and I've paid for them less than euros combined. You need to commit to buying it in early spring of the previous season to get it that cheap. That's Finland! That's from 5 to in Fahrenheit DanielHanka It's cold. Lol mb. Nov 27 AM. Did u watch roots because there is a ruka segment and it quite literally looks like heaven on earth. Cheers guys. So to summarise, wrap up warm, don't worry about bringing deeper snow skis, the park is the best bit of the mountain and the scenery is incredible. Very excited, cheers! Nov 28 AM. All times are Eastern