We spent the first weekend of January in Stora Sjöfallet. Along my self I had Juho Särkilä and Tuomas Lahti. During the four days we climbed two and used the other two days for ski touring nearby mountains. Though there’s a very good and well located inn there, we decided to go camping instead. Picture [...]
The long waited spring trip is ahead. After contemplating several options we ended up to go to Kebnekaise (once again). I guess it’s the ease of access and good facilities there that made us lean towards it. Well, of course the most important reason is the great mountain environment there. Picture above: Shot from the [...]
Last weekend I and my climbing partner Jari ended up climbing in Nuuksio, Espoo (close to Helsinki, Finland). We knew that we should find a few decent lines there and indeed we did. While there is much less selection in Nuuksio than for instance in Korouoma, both in terms of height and difficulty, it was [...]
Picture above: One of the tower featurs by Mika Narinen. It seems that this year our ice climbing tower project is finally in a good shape. I took my first few lines a few days ago. The accumulation of ice has been good. It seems that we might even, atleast in principle, get the tower [...]
It’s been my pleasure to be able to spend quite a few days climbing during last few weeks; six altogether. That’s two trips, three days each. That’s much more than last your at the same time. So it actually seems that I might be able to rise my grade during this season. At both of these trips, we climbed [...]
What does an ice climber do during the summer? An obvious answer would be rock climbing, but in this case we spent the day fixing our ice climbing tower for the next season. Besides I don’t climb rock that much anyways. The weather was nice, as was the company and we got most of the [...]
This year our annual Norway ice climbing trip with Jari directed to Spansdalen and was carried out during the first week of March. According to some accounts Spansdalen is an ice climbing heaven. Claim is not far from truth. There are dozens of multi-pitch routes along the valley. The climbs are generally higher and steeper [...]
In Finland there’s not that much mountains. Actually most of the ice climbing spots in Finland are somewhere else than in fells (fell = sort of round mountain). There are abandoned mines, different sized smaller cliffs and then such places like Korouoma, which is by far the best spot for ice climbing in Finland. Korouoma [...]
