Hiking in Finland

Climbing, bikepacking, skiing & packrafting in the north

The Week in Review LXXXIII

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hike up to Rysy

News

Chad and I.

Alex Honnold: Relativity of Risk.

Yosemite Valley, where the outlaw spirit is alive and well.

Pics.io, a browser-based Raw editor built on Google Drive, goes into Beta.

Mr. Fusion is the new modular, user-friendly, and stupidly-stable seat system from Porcelain Rocket. Goes well with a Six-Pack Rack, too.

The Big Sky International Wisp Tent 1P is now available from the Trekking-Lite-Store.com - a 476 g enclosed shelter!

$50.000 are up for grabs via the National Geographic Expedition Granted competition.

LAUFBURSCHE-gear now sells Toaks Titanium pots and their sweet Esbit setup in his shop as Evernew has left the European market and will be increasingly difficult (and expensive!) to get in the future.

Climbing Rescue and Dealing with disaster.

Three national parks lead the pack in Finland.

Gear Reviews

Lightweight packing for the Lake District.

Enlightened Equipment Enigma review.

And I reviewed the Luna Sandals OSO, one of my favourite pieces of gear.

Nice views

Trip Reports

Rebuffat Gully, Tour Ronde. Or a mighty fine day in the mountains.

Equally awesome is the Expedition Frumplestiltskin up the Cassin Ridge of Denali.

Down the Colorado, a five Episodes series of paddling down the Colorado River system.

Paulina recaps her Lassen Volcanic National Park Trip.

Linda heads up the Cooper Spur.

Climbing (almost) like in the past. [German]

Big Wall Dreaming.

Ute and daughter enjoy a few hikes around the Freiburger Hut. [German]

Roger hikes back to Sweden.

Jotaro and Barefoot Jake were backpacking in the Olympic Mountains.

And a Olympic Peninsula Traverse on foot and packraft is also a sweet way to explore that area.

A mountaineering life at the Pik Lenin and Pik Razdelnaya. [German]

Blood, sweat and fish fries in the BWCA.

Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic 2014 Ice route.

Seventeen Year Hiatus on The Grand Pilier d’ Angle.

Marko was Packsailing In Tammisaari Archipelago.

Tincan and Kickstep Glaciers.

August skiing on the Le Tour Glacier.

Darren splitboards from Kiandra to Kosciuszko.

Road Touring from Cambridge to Paris.

A Women’s only Cirque of the Tours Trip.

And finally, Mark shares a view photos and words from Sarek.

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