After the three weeks spectacular in Svalbard I had a week back home to take care of mundane issues and repack for another two weeks on the ice. This time the destination was Iceland and the plan was to guide an Avotunturit ski expedition across Vatnajökull, the largest glacier in Europe. This would be my […]
Not so long ago I wrote a post about different satellite communication devices available for outdoors use. And as many of the devices were brand new for the market there wasn’t too much user experiences available by the time. This is a follow-up and addition to the original post introducing some new satellite communication tools […]
In July I spent (again) a week on Kebnekaise area, this time combining two trips into a one-week tour. Both were traverses of a sort, the first including a traverse of the Kebnekaise summits and the second traversing the whole massif with packrafts. This post is about the latter. The second part of the tour […]
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 […]
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 […]
Not so long ago I wrote a post about different satellite communication devices available for outdoors use. And as many of the devices were brand new for the market there wasn’t too much user experiences available by the time. This is a follow-up and addition to the original post introducing some new satellite communication tools […]
…or to be precise, I traveled where the winter is. But anyway, me and good ‘ol winter are again in the same place and I’m enjoying it a lot! I was actually so excited that I wanted to share a few words and photos with you. Liking the winter after a 10km training run with […]
The title states the obvious facts about last Wednesday’s micro adventure I did with classmates from the wilderness guide school but apparently there is more to say about the trip than the numbers as this turned out to be quite a long post. The Niittylahden opisto has also many other courses and classes than the […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 02/04/2012 The expedition has conquered Hvannadalshnjukur today in super cooled rain and weak visibility, toughened from yesterday’s events. We had a relaxed day at the glacier: reggae was playing and we were skiing in our Hawaii shirts. We have a full day’s work ahead of us tomorrow. We must ski over […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 09/03/2012 First three days done. The Yellowbrick was down for a while but the tracking is running again. First two days were good skiing but today we couldn’t ski because of storm. We had over 20m/s gusts that broke two poles from one tent. Everyone is ok, poles are fixed and […]
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 […]
I’ve been thinking about the question in the title for a while now… Should I buy a windshirt? The answer may seem (and be) obvious as almost all the people imaginable swear by windshirts: – “For those of you who haven’t got yourself a ‘wind shirt’ yet, do yourself a favour and get one.” – […]
Lately I’ve spent quite a lot of time trying to get a hold of all the different satellite communication options available for outdoor adventurers and I though it would be nice to share my findings with you. This is a sort of state of the market report limited to the devices that may interest outdoor […]
The title of the post emerged from conversation in Mark’s post about Testing the Waters with borrowed Alpacka Denali Llama packraft and it’s very appropriate title for the post as this is about getting my new packraft wet and flipped around. That’s what I did the last weekend. Friday evening in a pond Tuomas loading […]