A strong Finnish
once a month,” says Hemmo Hakkarainen, a 44-year-old contractor with an island cottage in Haliburton, Ont. His love of a good steam runs deep. “My mother and all her sisters were born in a sauna. Back in the day, in rural Finland, the doctor would come and deliver babies in your sauna, because it’s the most sterile environment possible.” So he built his own, inspired by a book on
