Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
Cloudberry picking
Cloudberry picking
Black grouse hunting
Capercaillie
Local grouse species
Sheefish
This is by far the best berry available in the Holarctic region. Tastes excellent and is packed with vitamin C.
My father picking cloudberries at an undisclosed location in July 2006. The locations of good bogs are tightly kept secrets, but the best places vary from year to year depending on the temperature, rainfall, etc. The most productive season lasts for about two weeks around mid-July.
A bucket per day is an OK catch, but it often requires hours of walking on soft bogs accompanied by hordes of horseflies and/or mosquitoes. But it's worth it.
On cold sunny mornings in September and October, black grouse males come to certain open fens to practice for the spring leks.
Male capercaillies are difficult to catch, but they contain enough meat for a five-person dinner.
Common Finnish grouse species include (from left to right) the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) (a male and a female), the hazel grouse (Bonasa bonasia) and the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus).
A mid-sized sheefish (Stenodus leucichthys) from Anvik River in Alaska.
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Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
This is by far the best berry available in the Holarctic region. Tastes excellent and is packed with vitamin C.