The blog has been quiet since my contemplations of saying farewell to winter. The reason is, that I succeeded and found the winter. And definitely didn’t have to say good byes in February. At the end of February I headed to Sarek in Northern Sweden and found beautiful winter on the fjells. No signs of […]
Why are you leaving so early again, dear winter? It seems that it’s time to say farewell to the winter who is leaving the Southern Finland too early again. Way too early. The winter here was short but not as bad as the previous one either: We had a decent amount of snow and the […]
Another overnighter trip report! Sorry, if you are getting bored. I’ll try write about kit/gear/stuff later, and of course finish the posts about the past winter. But for now, trip report it is! My original plan was to spend the festive mid-summer weekend, Juhannus as we call it, working and I really didn’t have any […]
“Monthly highlights” is a series of post concentrating on a 10-month wilderness guide course I am taking this year at Niittylahden opisto near Joensuu in Eastern Finland. These posts try to summarize the best parts of each month and are naturally published at the end of each month (or in the beginning of the following […]
After spending nearly half of the winter skiing and hauling and sleeping on snow and ice, it was time to kick-start the summer season in mid-June. For this I headed to Northern Karelia, near the Eastern most corner of Finland where one can find almost untouched nature in the deep woods and also excellent white […]
You might have noticed that lately I’ve mentioned tyres quite often in my tweets. Tyres? Yes, tyres. Why? Well, let me explain… Who can read the runes? Most who are serious about their outdoor ventures like to be fit. Maybe the greatest way for outdoors enthusiast to stay fit is to spend a lot of […]
As a warning, this post is mostly therapeutical writing but maybe you get something out if. It seems that endurance sports are not for me. I like relaxed endurance sports and I’ve participated in some longish skiing events and military reserves marches. These kind of low intensity endurance sports are great way to test your […]
For me it doesn’t quite feel like it, but it’s the time to wish you all dear readers: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Glogg on an overnight pre-Christmas retreat. Merry Christmas! And to add some content into this post here’s a quick update about what’s going on… Preparing the cafeteria for the Christmas dinner. As […]
You really want to take a look at this! (At least if you have any interest in packrafting or boating rivers in general.) Whitewater packrafting at Kymijoki in October 2012. I spotted the Packrafting 101 video series by Media Feliz from Dave C’s excellent blog but in my opinion they are so good they deserve […]
This is a slightly delayd story of my first bikepacking overnighter… The story form the second trip with auroras and everything can be found from here. I’ve been interested in bikepacking for quite some time and I’ve been planning to buy a decent bike for over a year now. At the end of the summer […]
You really want to take a look at this! (At least if you have any interest in packrafting or boating rivers in general.) Whitewater packrafting at Kymijoki in October 2012. I spotted the Packrafting 101 video series by Media Feliz from Dave C’s excellent blog but in my opinion they are so good they deserve […]
Last Saturday it was once again time for the annual Helsinki Adventure Night, an adventure and climbing oriented movie evening. This year offered an interesting documentary about research work on Antarctica in the form of Antarctica: A Year On Ice, excellent keynote speech from Ueli Steck himself and Valley Uprising, a documentary about the history […]
This is a slightly delayd story of my first bikepacking overnighter… The story form the second trip with auroras and everything can be found from here. I’ve been interested in bikepacking for quite some time and I’ve been planning to buy a decent bike for over a year now. At the end of the summer […]
“Monthly highlights” is a series of post concentrating on a 10-month wilderness guide course I am taking this year at Niittylahden opisto near Joensuu in Eastern Finland. These posts try to summarize the best parts of each month and are naturally published at the end of each month (or in the beginning of the following […]