I promised to write a bit about the summer trip to the Switzerland, but it took a while to have spare time for such. In any case here’s the first article. Originally I had plan to head to Eiger, but the weather turned out to be such, that only very few areas in the whole [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here are few images from the Kebne Easter Ski Touring and Climbing 2010 event. I originally had a plan to stay there for two weeks, but had to cut it short. Still, we had an opportunity climb to Kebnekaise South Peak, do couple of ski touring trips and climb some ice in Tarfala and Skarttacohkka. [...]
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 [...]
It’s been over a week since we got back from Kåfjord Valley, Norway. My apologies for the delay with the report. Anyways, I have to say that climbing in Kåfjord were excellent. We had three days of climbing, one fall each day, highest climb roughly 340 meters and 8 pitches. It was kind of late [...]
aOur climbing association OKS91 ry arranges few climbing trips each year. Typically there’s several to the Korouoma, which is the best spot for ice climbing in Finland and about 250km from Oulu where I’m living at and a one longer one to somewhere where’s more to climb. Last two years the “more to climb” trips [...]
Last spring I went together with my girl friend Kaisu in to easy going skiing trip to Kebnekaise, Sweden’s highest mountain (2104 meters). By easy going I mean the fact that we lived under the roof, didn’t carry our gear to the Kebnekaise mountain station (used the snowmobile transportation instead), ate the foot at the [...]
While I’ve been waiting to get the schedule of our this year’s “expedition” nailed down, I thought that it would be good time to refresh some of the good memories from the last years ice climbing “expedition”. Luckily it seems that this type of ”expedition” with Jari is turning in to a yearly tradition. During the trip we climbed three ice [...]
Typically I’m fairly careful climber who tends to avoid unnecessary risks. Obviously there are times when everybody does something stupid, takes a risk he or she shouldn’t or makes a mistake. So far I have been pretty lucky. Apart from frequent burses due falling blocks of ice and one minor fall on ice protection (which [...]
