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 […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 15/08/2016 I wrote earlier about our climbing and packrafting trip to Kebnekaise in July. I also promised that there would be a video once Thomas gets it stitched together. So, here is the video: In addition to my words and Thomas’ video, you can find more photos from my gallery at […]
A friend of mine wished that on the autumn hike of our wilderness guide course we would have walked less to be better able to really learn about the nature surrounding us. Instead I hoped that we would have covered a longer distance to get a good overview of the wilderness area. What we did […]
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 […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 25/07/2016 In mid June I was on an overnight packrafting trip at Ruunaa Hiking area known for its rapids. In my trip report I promised there would be a video later when my friend has time to put it together… And as Thomas unfortunately damaged his hand on our recent trip […]
I promised some more posts about the Ultima Thule 2011 expedition and they are on their way, but it starts to be summer here in Finland (In my opinion +15 Celsius, sunshine and only tiny bit of snow left is somewhat a summer…) so I though to post something else first. Another free meal… with […]
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 […]
A short bilingual post about opportunity to join an awesome guided packrafting adventure in Lapland, with a 20% discount! Sorry for the marketing but I thought you might be interested… // Lyhyt tietoisku mahdollisuudesta päästä mukaan upealla opastetulle packraft-vaellukselle Lappiin 20% alennuksella! Pahoittelen markkinointia blogissa, mutta ajattelin, että tämä saattaisi kiinnostaa… In English: Due cancellations […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 06/03/2012 Sorry folks, nothing here yet! It’s now 1:25 a.m. Finnish time and I should be leaving towards North after less than two hours and I should also get some sleep in between. I was in a hurry and tired and made a mistake and published something merely halfway ready. I’m […]
A couple of weeks ago I was guiding a packrafting course at Kymijoki and had great time first alone and then with a nice group. Packrafting seems to be almost always great fun. I went to the river a day ahead to check the water level and scout the rapids I’d been paddling only with […]
“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 few weeks after…) Hopefully you enjoy […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 29/06/2011 I haven’t written a “Recommended read” for a while and as I stumbled upon a post about Bear Grylls’ book – I got an idea! I believe that most of you know Bear Gryll’s and his TV show The Ultimate Survival with Bear Grylls. It’s best that I won’t say […]
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 […]
At this time next week I will be walking into my first serious packrafting trip, the FPE2011. Starting with a 45km walk in followed by likely the most remote and wild rivers in Finland: Valtijoki, Poroeno and Lätäseno totalling over 140km of packrafting. The Valtijoki sounds quite intimidating with its big drops, class IV rapids […]