March of the Tykky

In 1951, John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic novel the Day of the Triffids was released. It starts with a meteor shower blinding most of the earth’s population. In the aftermath, an aggressive species of giant plant begins killing people indiscriminately. The sight of a line of frozen trees, known as tykky, reminds me of the triffids, marching malevolently through the thick snow of the Riisitunturi National Park in Finnish Lapland. I’ve never seen these trees without the snow, so perhaps they are triffids?