Passion

We are alive and done....

2009-10-08T22:55:00.000+03:00

So here in the north, season and our fingers are done. We have about 15-20cm of snow, so climbing starts to be little bit difficult. Unless we get some mysterious heat wave, our filming is also finished. Now begins the slow and painfull process of editing. Only Jeebus knows when we have finished the editing, but as it goes for the movie.... it's coming.... soon......very soon... most likely

Viva la Rocklands

2009-07-22T01:18:00.003+03:00

So it's been awhile since this blog was updated, but for a good reason. The Rocklands is just too much for our little bean heads. We been just climbing and climbing endless classic boulders and haven't really even thought updating this blog, until now. At the moment I'm sitting under a clear South African sky by a campfire.The trip has been awesome, perfect weather, only two days of rain that

Too hot to climb

2009-06-30T15:44:00.003+03:00

Lately it has been too hot to boulder around here, but luckily we have a cure for it.... plane tickets to South Africa.. We'll try to update the blog directly from there, but for now I have to start packing... lot of gear that must go under 20 kilos, let see how that goes... :)

2700km and plenty of hanging around

2009-06-17T12:42:00.002+03:00

So it's been quite busy with the movie and at the same time making a climbing guidebook of Lapland, anyhow we did a short climbing trip to the south. Here's what happend:-Mikkeli = It rained-Savolinna = It rained-Jyväskylä = still rained, didn't stop-Vaasa = It was freezing, got sick of urban camping-Tampere = Nice climbing and good weather and lurking in friends apartments-Jyväskylä= Sauna &

A full working day

2009-05-27T12:05:00.004+03:00

As said before, we as well as our predecessors have been climbing in Hiidenkirnut for roughly twenty years. Why is it that our eyes seem to be opening to the whole potential just now? Maybe every new person who comes there thinks of the place as fully developed due to the long history of climbing there.Yesterday was one of the greatest days of the development of Hiidenkirnut. At least judging by

Our brushes are starting to wear out

2009-05-24T21:33:00.003+03:00

Once again we've been climbing around with no special plan or a project and yet we've just been opening new lines after new lines. Got little bit tired of Hiidenkirnut and decided to visit a block that we found last year , but didn't have the time to go and climb on it. It's located about half an hour drive from Rovaniemi and it's a nice little place to visit if you don't have anything else to

Itkumuuri

2009-05-17T11:17:00.005+03:00

During the week, we have been visiting kirnut several times. Tommi has been trying to send the alltime classic line called "Terminaattori" and it's very very close. We are focused now to brush all the obvious lines that haven't been brushed or climbed, of course many of these are little bit second class lines, with a bad landing or something else.This week we cleaned a slabwall called "

Ordinary routines

2009-05-09T12:31:00.004+03:00

Now that last of the snow has melted, we can back our normal routines... climb,climb,climb. Pretty basic week , opened a one line, climbed little bit this and that and took the juniors out from the cave."and on your left side you can see..." Henni cruising around..."vahinkolaukaus" FA

Busy weekend

2009-05-03T12:37:00.003+03:00

So weekend has gone and has been quite succesful. On Friday Kalle came for visit and also Bone was eger to climb, so we headed to Hiidenkirnut. First we went to the "Nature bar 6b" and Bone easily repeated it. After that we started brushing a line next to "N.B" and after few scary moments "Pelle Pelokas 6c" was born. Very similar line like "Nature bar" but little bit harder, both of them are

Nature bar

2009-04-30T12:06:00.003+03:00

So I visited at the project again and got the normal result, failure. Problem with the project is that I can't take more than 4-5 tries and after that I'm to tired for the crux move.To spend the last of my skins, I re-discovered an old project that Risto found behind a tree, years ago. I was thinking, I'll just cruise to top , since it didn't look so hard. Reality was that it wasn't that easy

Spring is here

2009-04-27T20:17:00.002+03:00

Finally spring has arrived also to Arctic cirle. We've been running around old easy accsesible places (because of the snow) and actually it has been fun to climb old stuff again. We managed to open new problem near Servo block called "Laila Kinnunen". Nice little line, little bit like "Pimp my ride", but mirrored.Then we also visited Hietavaara with Kalle , just to check some blocks that I saw

Finally, out of the cave

2009-04-23T00:07:00.006+03:00

I headed south to Mikkeli again and got to enjoy the spring and some dry blocks.First day I went to Puumala and was really excited to start the season in Finland.All the blocks were dry and temperature was just perfect, only problem was that there was still plenty of snow in the ground, but that's normal...But even the great weather didn't change the fact that I suck. It was the most annoying

Ice action in Skibotn

2009-03-31T21:38:00.013+03:00

Best in ice climbing: breakfast and cool shades.Once you drive pass the Finnish - Norwegian border heading up north, you're amazed by the sheer amount of good ice climbing you can spot from the roadside. Norway is an ice climbing paradise in many aspects - there's endless potential lines, the season is long and there's nobody else around. Climbing in Norway is adventurous because no info or beta

Sunshine to our lives

2009-03-09T23:31:00.003+02:00

How to enjoy rock climbing in the middle of scandinavian winter ? Take a plane and fly to far away land. This time I went to see Wille in Thailand as he is travelling through Asia for whole winter. As soon as I arrived to Krabi, it was definetly clear that this is the place, when imagine paradise in your head. Krabi area is of course known for it's sport climbing possibilities, but it has been

Snow on the ground

2008-11-25T18:40:00.002+02:00

So the winter has fallen upon us. Now we have drag our selves inside to the dusty old cave.Now worries snow brings ice and ice brings adventures of tapsa & co , so some point we will join their adventures, but for now this blog will be quiet for a while.Later,SS

Quick trip to south

2008-09-30T12:52:00.004+03:00

During my quick visit to Mikkeli, I managed to visit in Halsvuori and the new boulders of Savonlinna. While visiting Halsvuori I realised once again that I suck badly , when it comes to rope climbing, but the main idea was to have a day-off from bouldering and it was fun to struggle with rope , since it has been a long time from my last time. Antti looked strong in "Taivaanrannan maalari" and

Rainy day

2008-09-05T10:57:00.004+03:00

It was raining here yesterday, so we decided to go and search for new boulders. We weren't quite sure where to go when we left from the city and decided to go to Hanhivaara area. Suprise we didn't find anything. Then we agreed that we'll go and search again for the "Airplane rock". We spotted this huge block from the air when we were coming from Fontainebleu , couple of years ago. We fought our

Deja vu

2008-09-03T19:50:00.002+03:00

We went back to Kirnut and once again opened three new problems, Wille was responsible for all of them and also climbed his hardest problem ever "Maria-sola". I also managed to open the sitstart of Risto's "Myrsky vesilasissa". Once again we had amazing day at Kirnut, just can't wait to go there next time. Unfortunatly we didn't took any photos this trip, but let's take them later. Even

Home sweet home

2008-09-01T11:45:00.004+03:00

Risto, Ape and myself, took a trip to "Kirnut", weather was perfect, cold and sunny.We decided to go and try one small overhang project and managed to climb it quite fast. We were thinking that it's a great day that you can open something to Kirnut, but little did we know and opened two or three new problems more. One of them may have been climbed before, we have to check it out later. The best

2008-08-26T21:54:00.003+03:00

Petäjävaara is known as a pretty impressive area. There is already 14 of bolted routes and there is still potential routes to be cleaned. However, the pieces fallen from the mainface create an excellent crowd of boulders that's been left in the shadow of the main attraction. Mikko, Risto, Jussi, Rob Roy and Me came to Petis to develop the area for bouldering. Jesse and Hasa came a bit later but

Close to a perfect climbing day

2008-07-31T12:56:00.009+03:00