Don't worry mate, I'm like that too, sometimes I don't feel like writing, others I write like crazy. Time is relative, if you feel like it you can answer in 1/5/10/20 years, or even in other reincarnation, or only post your great pictures and not writing at all, don't worry :) I'm always around, visiting the blog from time to time is like a routine now, I find it very cool to be able, even miles and miles apart, to have a glance into a distant (and beautiful) land like Finland through your daily posts, life and photos. It was a rejoice to take notice that this same week snow has fallen in there like in here, it gives me great joy this kind of glimpse =)

-25°C sounds a lot scary to me, you are brave xD In the town where I live, temperatures rarely go beyond -3°C in the worst part of winter, and when they go beyond zero newscasts focus that and go "alert temperatures are very low take care!". I have consciousness that that is a joke for Nordic countries, and that we are spoiled in this town :) 15°C for me is already cold, something bellow that feels like very cold to me *shame on me* >.< But nevertheless, a Romanian friend of mine, is always complaining that she prefers the snowy bellow zero winter in Romania than the average cold moist/rainy/windy climate in here, she uses to say "cold in Braga [my town] is like needles inside the bones, in Romania at least it stays outside the bones". I think she exaggerates >.< As we use to say in portuguese "venha o diabo e escolha" means +/- = let the devil come and decide which is best. I regret not having snow, I love it, cold without snow is like suffering in vain xD

About the mines, astoundingly, few people know about it, mainly (I think) because it is hard to get there. It is in the middle of our only national natural park, it is the 5th tallest place and some routes have restricted access to the public. There is no access by car, the old roads are destroyed, only 3 or 4 hours walking with a slope of 700m, to an altitude of 1548m. No one lives at the mountain now, for 40 year. The inner mines were waterlogged to deny access to the public. Snow in winter, strogh sun and deadly vipers roaming in summer, make it an hostile place. But everyone that goes says: "one of the most beautiful routes I ever walked".
Recently, after a lot of research, someone in love with the national park published the first book I know dedicated to these mines and its history. That was when I knew about it (1 year ago). This december I'm going there for the first time, with a friend that knows the route, wish me luck and strength in my legs =)