No, unfortunately I don’t have any new packrafting toys for myself but there have been few very cool new products hitting the market this summer. And even though I’ve tweeted about every one of the new toys they are also worth a blog post as I have readers who don’t follow me on Twitter. (For […]
No, unfortunately I don’t have any new packrafting toys for myself but there have been few very cool new products hitting the market this summer. And even though I’ve tweeted about every one of the new toys they are also worth a blog post as I have readers who don’t follow me on Twitter. (For […]
You know all these fancy names for simple trip that includes spending the night in the woods, hills or other wild(ish) place? S24h, microadventure, extreme sleeps, Browernighter™ and the like. Well, last week I decided to go for a one as I needed to treat my chronic post-trip hangover. The summer in Finland is at its […]
This is a shortish update post about my future plans as what the tomorrow brings will also affect the blog quite a bit. The midsummer is now gone and it’s time to see what the tomorrow brings… At the moment I am working in a university and among other things I am doing my master’s […]
No, unfortunately I don’t have any new packrafting toys for myself but there have been few very cool new products hitting the market this summer. And even though I’ve tweeted about every one of the new toys they are also worth a blog post as I have readers who don’t follow me on Twitter. (For […]
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 […]
/ A word of warning: This post includes a lot of photos. They are nice and varied outdoors photos but there are many. You have been warned. / As the year is about to end (as it didn’t end in 21.12.12), it’s again time to share some of my favourite outdoors moments from the past […]
Last week I returned from the autumn hike of the Wilderness Guide course that I’m participating. We did a six-day hike in the Muotkatunturit wilderness area in Lapland North-West from the village of Inari. Most of the Muotkatunturit area is nice and friendly with easy-going terrain, open fjell areas followed with dwarf birch forests and […]
Category Archives: photographpy Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 16/05/2011 I promised some pictures from the Ultima Thule 2011 expedition by the end of this week. Unfortunately I had some other things to do so I’m not quite finished with all the post processing but I made a randomly picked teaser set for you to take a […]
When a one-week winter ski tour starts with heavy wind-driven rain you have to remind yourself why you like that stuff. This far I’ve always managed to convince myself that I’m doing what I really like and, fortunately, this time wasn’t an exception. In early March I was in Sarek National Park guiding the Advanced […]
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 […]
About a year ago I wrote about Spruce tips and my dreams living of the land. During the last year many things have changed and evolved but I’m still dreaming of partially living of the land in the future and because of that I have been doing some experiments with resources freely available from the […]
As most of you already know I am soon leaving for a three-week arctic skiing expedition and for a such trip, you need to have chow food to keep you going. Energy dense, light and tasty Hauling a sled is hard work. Hauling a heavy sled is even harder work. Hauling a heavy sled and […]
09.04.2011 – 2nd day on skis After a great hassle on both airports – Helsinki-Vantaa and Oslo – we managed to get ourselves and all our gear to Longyearbyen at Thursday afternoon and were greeted with -14 Celcius, strong wind and spindrift. Getting rooms for everyone in Mary Ann’s was a bit difficult as the […]