X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. My main trip for the summer season 2015 was a summer packrafting tour to Svalbard. After the superlative-packed winter tour in Svalbard in April I was excited to get back. This trip had been on the […]
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X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. Less words, more photos. Packrafting the Reisaelva in Reisadalen. The last day of the one-week tour. The last week I was guiding a one-week packrafting tour from Kilpisjärvi (Finland) to Reisadalen (Norway). Unlike the last time […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. I’ve heard that routine is deadly so this time, I didn’t go for an overnighter. I went for one these very fashionable microadventures as this time my trip meet the five-to-nine and other criteria. Or it […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. In June me and N traversed Kebnekaise (2100m or so), the highest peak of Sweden. It’s a classic hike with parts following the wide path from Nikkaluokta to Kebnekaise Fjällstation and parts following the hugely popular […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. This is a bilingual blog post about guiding services I am offering. / Tämä on kaksikielinen tiedote tarjoamistani opaspalveluista. This post is also to serve as a “commenting area” as the comments on pages are disabled. […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. We are having quite terrible winter here in the Southern Finland. Saying it’s the worst ever is probably exaggerating but it’s horrible compared to the previous few winters. There’s not much snow to ski on, two […]
I’m spending the week enjoying the summer in the country side and preparing for the upcoming year in the wilderness guide school (which starts next Monday), but at the mean time I’m also writing trip reports about the last two trips in the Lapland. The writing will take some time as there is so much […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. ALL PACKRAFTERS IN FINLAND – UNITE! At the river in August 2014. We’d like to invite you to the first ever gathering of packrafters in Finland. A well seasoned veteran, happy owner of a new boat […]
X This site uses cookies. By continuing, you agree to their use. Learn more, including how to control cookies. 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 […]
For the last two weeks or so it has been a full on summer here in Finland. Temperatures have been close to +30C, there hasn’t been much rain (at least in the South-East) and everything is green and blooming. Well, mosquitoes are not green but they seem to be booming as well… This all means […]
Posted by Korpi-Jaakko on 24/03/2012 After surprisingly laid back check-in and flight our expedition landed at the Keflavik International Airport around 4 p.m. local time. We then took the airport bus to the hostel where we ended up stopping the traffic of the Reykjavik’s main street for some time, while unloading our gear from the […]
As the year is ending soon, I thought it would be nice to share some of my favourite outdoors moments along the year and I thought that photos would make nice variation to the thousands-of-words posts that I’ve been writing lately. But I couldn’t help adding few words in between… And there are way too […]
The winter is finally over on the Northern hemisphere. To celebrate the winter gone and to make-up some of the quiet time in the blog, I will publish a three-part wrap up of my outdoor activities over the last winter. All the posts will be somewhat photo-heavy and lengthy (this one seems to be around […]