How crazy is it that it has taken this stubborn mule decades to learn the best way to start a fire? Having lit well over 3,000 saunas in my day, and probably that many more fires in fireplaces and fire
It was a warm day in Northern Minnesota. I hopped into my fishing boat and headed about 5 miles across Lake Vermilion into the river inlet to Tower, Minnesota. Daryl Lamppa picked me up at the dock, and we drove in
It was a perfectly rainy early June afternoon for this Sauna Talk session at my cabin. We road tripped together to experience National Sauna Day in Embarrass, MN. What better way to get right into nature, and all get on the same
Some municipalities don’t give a damn In rural places like Montana, Alaska, even Northern Minnesota, you pay your taxes and if you build a sauna, only the far off neighbors will come by. People know how to do things. If
In follow up to a post about installing a wood burning sauna stove with a feed from inside the hot room or outside, here’s some more ranting: I am building a wood sauna stove to place in a barrel sauna.
Guest Post series continues. Thanks Christian for your oneness and candor in reviewing wood stove options, below. Christian is in the midst of his own backyard sauna build and in return for his research, I am sending him a free
Name: Christian Email: Subject Vancouver BC Canada build Message hi I just discovered your site absolutely fantastic information. glad to find so many people that are equally as passionate about saunas and life. I’m in the process building my
3rd generation Daryl Lamppa has spent countless hours and many years refining the design of Lamppa’s wood burning sauna stove, called, simply, The Kuuma (Finnish word for hot).
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