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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 […]

// Warning: This post contains pointless whining and is written while being frustrated. Reading at own risk. 😉 // Once again it has been quiet here for some time. This is partly because of the Wilderness Guide school keeping me busy: I just spent a week hiking in Muotkatunturit wilderness area in Lapland with the […]

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 […]

It’s been a while since the last post. A bit too long time to be honest but as I’ve tweeted, some things have kept me occupied. This post is about those things. The main reason for the radio silence… As most of you know, about three weeks ago I started a one-year-program to become a […]

This is “one from the archives” i.e. one of those trips I did but haven’t written about. But it was such a nice trip, it deserves to be blogged about and I thought now would be a good time since I’m again on my way to the same area… Last year I was guiding a […]

“Enemmän kuin elämyksiä!” Tarjoan opastettuja kursseja, vaelluksia ja retkikuntia sekä ohjelmapalveluita ja koulutusta ryhmille ja yksityishenkilöille. Olen suorittanut Erä- ja luonto-oppaan ammattitutkinnon ja ensisijainen kiinnostuksen kohteeni on erämaassa liikkuminen ja siihen liittyvät taidot kuljettaessa: – jalan (erityisesti kevytretkeily ja vaativat vaellukset), – vesillä (kajakilla, kanootilla ja packraft-lautoilla sekä kumilautoilla), – ja erityisesti talvella ja arktisilla […]

Vuokraa packraft! Tarvitsetko packraft-lauttaa retkelle, muttet halua investoida suurta summaa harvoin tarvittavaan harrastusvälineeseen? Tai haluaisitko kokeilla lauttaa käytännössä ennen ostoa? Ja saada vielä alennusta uudesta lautasta? Onnistuu! Lautat Minulla (Pohjoisemmas Oy) on valikoima packraft-lauttoja, joita vuokraan silloin kun ne eivät ole käytössä kursseillani tai retkilläni. Vuokralaivue koostuu seuraavista: aukkopeitteelliset MRS Microraft-lautat, koko S 1kpl ja […]

“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. This is the first post of  the […]

“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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Traditional heavyweight hiking boots are considered to be very durable. And they are, at least compared to the lightweight trail runners favoured by many, me included. Trail runners seem to last around or under 1000 km while traditional heavy weight leather boots can last for several thousand kilometers. But even hiking boots are not forever. […]

Sometime ago I launched a reader competition in collaboration with UlkoilunMaailma.fi to celebrate the Christmas and New Year. The competition closed at the end of the year 2012 and I promised to raffle the winner (with kind help from Random.org) at January 2nd but was too busy to publish the name of the lucky winner. […]