How to find your way here.

Booking

We take bookings by appointment and by introduction. The short version: if you've been here before, or a previous guest has pointed you our way, get in touch through them and we'll find you a slot. We hold most weekends for returning guests; weekday afternoons are usually where newcomers land first.

Sessions booked through returning guests and the Lehto family circle — the same seven families who kept my grandparents' sauna going from ’71 onward. Deep-winter schedule: Wed–Sun, first hard freeze through ice-out. The larch plunge drops 8°C the week after ice-out — bring wool.

Current rates updated

• Big Moose — shared, 2 hrsper person, modest
• The Calf — private, 2.5 hrsper cabin, up to 4
• Plunge-only pass, 90 minper person, modest
• Half-day retreat, 4 hrsper group, includes lunch

We don't publish numbers here because they shift with firewood costs and the season. Your introducing guest will have the current sheet, or we'll include it in your confirmation.

What to bring

• A swimsuit (required in shared sessions)
• Something warm for after — a wool sweater earns its keep here
• Indoor shoes or thick socks for the Vestibule
• A book, if you're that kind of guest. Most are.
• A water bottle; we'll keep refilling it

We provide linen towels, wool robes, a cedar sauna ladle, spring water in a clay pitcher, and a pot of seasonal tisane on the side-table. Soap and shampoo in the outdoor shower are unscented and made by our neighbor Liisa, two coves over.

Getting here

The property is roughly forty minutes from the nearest small town, along a two-lane road that turns to gravel for the last mile and a half. You'll receive exact directions when your booking is confirmed — we don't publish the turn-off, because the mailbox is easy to miss and we'd rather not be found by accident.

Drive slowly on the last stretch. It's moose country, and not just ours. Dusk and dawn are the reasons we ask you to arrive in full daylight whenever possible.

The rhythm of a visit

Most guests arrive twenty minutes before their session, change in the Vestibule, and step into the cabin to find it already at 78°C and climbing. You'll cycle — hot room, plunge or cool-down on the deck, rest, repeat — as many times as feels right. An hour in, we'll usually bring a kettle of water for the stones and leave you to it. A full walkthrough lives here if you want the minute-by-minute.

When your time is up, there's no bell. We simply walk over when the session ends and ask whether you'd like one more round, a longer rest, or the shower. The answer is almost always “one more round.”

Gift sessions

Yes — we write them out on heavy paper, by hand, and mail them in a wax-sealed envelope. Ask your introducing guest to pass the request along and we'll take care of the rest. Most of the sessions we run are, in one way or another, given.

A small glossary^*

löyly

The steam that rises when water is thrown on the stones. Also the feeling of that steam. Finnish; pronounced roughly “LOY-lew.”

kiuas

The sauna stove itself. Ours are cast-iron, wood-fired, loaded with granite.

vihta

A whisk of young birch branches, used to lightly strike the skin. Eastern Finland also calls it vasta; we use whichever word the guest brings.

10/3 cycle

Our winter plunge protocol: ten breaths in, three out, under forty-five seconds in the water.

^* Annika's grandmother would say half of these aren't worth defining and the other half you'll understand after one session. She's probably right.