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 [...]
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 [...]
Saturday was modest, just about -25, but on Sunday it got colder. The lowest figure we had was -29.5 (measured on our car’s thermometer few kilometers away from the spot), it were most likely even colder down on the bottom of Korouoma canyon. As many of you may know cold makes climbing difficult.
