Part 1 – Up, down and under the ice This is the first part of my trip report from a summer packrafting tour in Svalbard. You can read about the plan, route and crew in the introduction post. After a quite sleepless flight, short night at the camping ground and quick shopping and repacking in […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 04/07/2011 I’m trying few things with the blog so it might act all weird for sometime. I’m very sorry if this causes some inconvenience to any of you readers. What I’m trying to do, is to put up some kind of system enabling me to blog or tweet via Iridium satellite […]
Part 2 – March through moraines and bone-freezing packrafting If you haven’t done it yet, you can read the first part of the trip report and background for the trip from previous posts! Falling into sleep in the sound of cold wind we woke up to a calm and sunny day at the mouth of […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 20/01/2011 Hello, everyone! After a way too long time of procrastination I have finally managed to set up a blog! There will be likely some changes during the following weeks as I tweak the blog but at least the stuff is now online. While waiting for the first real post, which […]
As I mentioned in the previous post I’ve been doing more overnight trips than usually. About a week ago a good friend of mine, lets call him P, asked if I’d have time for a weekend overnighter to Repovesi National Park. Even though I’ve been living only about an hour’s drive away from the park […]
Part 1 – Up, down and under the ice This is the first part of my trip report from a summer packrafting tour in Svalbard. You can read about the plan, route and crew in the introduction post. After a quite sleepless flight, short night at the camping ground and quick shopping and repacking in […]
SPOT is probably the most widely used satellite messaging device in recreational outdoor sports. It was the first of its kind and something the market needed. It has helped a lot of people during the years but one should know that it also has limitations and in my opinion, is unreliable. Warning! The SPOT is […]
It’s been a bit quiet in the blog as I’m using most of my spare time doing expedition preparations. Last weekend was spent weighting, mixing and packing food for three-week expedition. I’ll write more about my diet before leaving but here is a teaser pick: Most of the food for two people for a three-week […]
Part 3 – Hungry coastal hike thru abandoned settlements Check out some background information for the trip and the first and second part of the story to make it complete. After 30 kilometers of awesome (though butt-freezing) packrafting on the Reinelva we were in the point where plans needed to be changed. We had lost […]
SPOT is probably the most widely used satellite messaging device in recreational outdoor sports. It was the first of its kind and something the market needed. It has helped a lot of people during the years but one should know that it also has limitations and in my opinion, is unreliable. Warning! The SPOT is […]
The last weekend N and I had a rare overlapping weekend without other projects and an overnighter was soon planned… I wanted to do some more packrafting and found the Ruokolahden melontareitti, a 110km paddling route with some shelters and fireplaces along the way. As is the case in South-East Finland the route is mostly […]
Inspired by Hendrik’s post about the quest for the one rucksack to rule them all, I thought I might share my quest for perfect gear. It seems that I’m obsessed about the idea of finding the perfect piece of equipment of each job. It is not an easy job as there are at least three […]
The interest One of my main outdoors related interests is covering long distances in spectacular settings. And as being able to cover long distances far away from the supporting structures of civilization often requires moving fast, it’s quite natural that I’m also interested in speed hiking and related things. And as moving fast is also […]
Pöyrisjoki and Ounasjoki watershed Pöyrisjoki river is often listed as one of the four great wilderness rivers of Finland. Like the rest of the great wilderness rivers (Lätäseno, Näätämö and Ivalojoki rivers) the Pöyrisjoki in situated in Lapland high over the Arctic Circle as that’s where’s most of Finland’s wilderness and free-flowing rivers are. The […]