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Kevo Canyon as a Kebnekaise rebound
Me and my buddy started the car on 23th SEP at 1700 hours from Hyvinkää, South Finland. The original destination, North Sweden and Kebnekaise, switched en route to Kevo canyon...

Sleeping bag size selection guide
Don't know in which bag to hide your body? Read this article and be enlightened! The woes of fitting a sleeping bag online We're often asked about sleeping bag sizing....

The ascent of Halti in fall of 2018, part 2/2
In the first part we made it halfway up the slopes of Halti fell, as we had decided to attempt going all the way to the summit the same evening....

The ascent of Halti in fall of 2018, part 1/2
We are employees of Varusteleka and a couple, who spend a lot of time in nature. We make short hikes nearby every week and several overnighters every year. In addition...

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Varusteleka Mega Grand Opening 2018
Days Hours Minutes Seconds Location: Hankasuontie 11 A Date: SAT 11th of AUG 2018 Time: 10:00-02:00 Free admission! You'll find the event on Facebook - Click "interested" or "going" to...

Facebook 100k
Facebook fan raffle! OH NO! 100 000 fans is such a ridiculous amount of people that we're going to do something equally stupid to honor it: we're giving away one...

50k English speaking fans on Facebook!
Facebook 50k follower raffle Where are all these foreign fans coming from? We must have done something right to get such a great number of English speaking fans on our...

Etelä-Karjalan Sotilasmarssi 2018 - Team Korpimiehet
Kisakertomus 2018 Etelä-Karjalan Sotilasmarssista Team Korpimiesten näkökulmasta.Myllymäen laskettelukeskukseen oli 27.4.2018 kokoontunut 20 maanpuolustushenkistä partiota valmiina kohtaamaan Suomen kovimmaksi sotilastaitokilpailuksi kutsutun marssin haasteet. Joukkueiden seassa seisoi myös kuudetta kertaa maastomarssille osallistuva...

Kolmen lammen kierros - helppo päiväretki luontoon
Luonnossa patikoiminen on huomattavan rentouttavaa ja tehokasta stressinhoitoa. Tästä huolimatta sitä liian usein erehtyy kuvittelemaan, että retkelle lähtö vaatisi suuria ennakkovalmisteluita ja ponnisteluita. Täytyy tehdä varustelista, pakata liian iso reppu...

Visiting Scotland with Särmä
I had my one-week summer leave in late August and desperately needed a cooler place to escape the heat wave that had tormented Finland for the best part of summer....

Herajärvi Trail - Amateur Hiker Flying Solo
During the busy stretch of our relocation and preparing for the Mega Grand Opening I started to think that a time-out in nature would be a brilliant way to get...

Camping with the Defence Forces
Laid-back camping and hiking is fine and a globally well understood thing. Among other things Finns sometimes do differently than others is military excercise and reservist training as a replacement...

EKS/SCMM 2018, Part 6, Team Leka firearms training
Four basic rules for safe weapon handling. Handle your weapon as if it were loaded. ALWAYS! Do not point your weapon at anything that you are not ready to destroy....