Juho Kuisma

Decent climbing up the face. A bit sparse gear at the start, but eases halfway through.

Walk up on jugs for me, but a huge struggle right off the deck for me wife who couldn't reach the jugs. Not nearly as good as the Scottish sea adventures.

HVS with bomber pro. Continuously overhanging crack with plenty of jugs, jams and gear. Waves crashing below add to the experience.

Small stack barely detached from the main land, but a stack nonetheless. Great moves on jugs at an amazing setting. Fulmar nesting on top, but traversing to the left before topping out avoids bothering it.

Similar line to Coaster, but a bit more involved climbing and less gear.

Led twice. Second time completely drenched by the incoming high tide just to escape to solid ground. ;)

Fingers ad infinitum and plenty of pro. Pretty sweet line. Led Salama before this, but it barely helps the effort.

Was running out of gear near the top and had to do some improvised back cleaning to protect the very top. First lead in Olhava.

Decent climbing and plenty of pro.

Full body experience with decent ring locks and paddle hands in the back. Can't really call it a 5- in good conscience, albeit it was quite a bit easier for my wife with smaller hands.

Gotta tick 'em all.

TRS. A bit of a logistical nightmare to solo with multiple redirects above and mud below. Had to weigh gear to clean redirects from the roof. Will be back to lead this.

A bit wet, but climbable. Someone has left a .3 camalot well and truly stuck on the start of the crack.

Wet..

Wet..

Couple nice jams, but mostly jugs outside the crack. A grade harder than Pienetkulkuset.

Crux is the boulder right off the deck. Rest is just cruising on jugs. Nice steep climbing though. A grade easier than Jippo liukastus.

Not your typical Kustiva crack, but really enjoyed it. Didn't have half ropes so used two single ropes. Bomber gear, eats all totem sizes.

Bail from Strontium. Dirty and miserable. That's what you get for bailing. ;)

Superb jamming, but short and a bit soft. Sähköpaimen (5+) is both harder and longer.

Great jamming to a bit awkward wider finish.

Top roped before leading. Chill well protected climbing. Laybacked the top with feet on spruce. Not big on eliminates, especially on trad. Top part is quite unique.

TRS, second go. Will be back to lead this. Mostly fingers and laybacking, but gloves might be nice for the end. Small cams and nuts.

Enjoyed the offwidth finish.

Nice sensitive start. Continued to the Hopeinen kuu anchor for the extra mileage.

Actually mellow Yosemite 5.6 corner/hands. One of the only routes in shade at the crag.

5.7 in the topos, which seems to be more in line with the first pitch even with the notorious sandbagging. Not quite as good as the other classic moderate multipitches. Led all pitches w/ Heli following. Roped up for the final scramble as well which seemed closer to fifth than fourth class.

Perfect hands/thin hands for most of the way. Finishes on short section of fingers, stemming and jugs.

Three pitches of great crack and corner climbing. Just a bit hollow/loose at places. Led all pitches w/ Heli following. Descent in the dark.

5.6 variation and four pitches. Led all w/ Heli following. Linked pitches 2 and 3, which was barely doable with a 70m rope. Almost stepped on a rattlesnake on the descent.

Slick first pitch, but just keeps getting better. Great splitter hands to finish the route. Cost to reward ratio is up there as you get brilliant view of the Half Dome after only three pitches of climbing. Led all pitches w/ Heli following.

Two pitches, led both. Soft, glassy and chossy, hardly ideal.

Nice versatile pitch.

Super awkward thin hands crux. Felt by far the hardest currently established trad route in Veikkola. Might be easier with smaller hands. Fell a few times on the onsight go, but went down cleanly on the second go. Definitely not a 5, maybe more like 6-/F6a+. ;)

Stiff last section. Struggled to fit my fingers in the thin seam.

Awkward

Two pitches. 2nd pitch scramble to the top was wife's first trad lead. :)

No laybacking.

What a struggle. Climbed the crux as a chimney instead of stemming.

Beautiful line, clean jamming from start to finish!

Huge fight on the onsight go, but fell before the offwidth and another time from the offwidth. Went down solidly on the second go. First Finnish 6 trad lead and definitely harder than any 6- I've climbed. Feels like the F6b is justified.

Nice warmup line.

Wandered to the Taikanauha top section after the steep part by accident. Decent line nonetheless.

Great offwidth struggle to open the season to.

Easier than the hardest section of Krapula, but more sustained. A bit dirty, but enjoyable climbing! Route name's still relevant.

Decent laybacking section.

Seconded.

Led the second pitch.

Belayed Sami before leading. The start is a bit awkward to protect.

First go, but I've climbed both Potilas and The Big Crack previously. Climbed up Potilas to place gear in the diagonal crack. Then back down, traverse right and up the arete.

With Hans Dülfer's start, which adds a nice short jamming section.

Seconded before leading. Three different mini boulder problems separated by rests on sloping ledges. Could be more sustained, but decent climbing nonetheless. Surprise bolts at the top.

Two pitches, led both. Vertical or even slightly overhanging start on good jugs and easier slab for the rest of the way.

Interesting bouldery crux and easy climbing before and after that. Well protected with camalots up to #6. Feels like a 6-/F6a.

One of the best looking lines in Veikkola with a surprisingly pumpy laybacking section.

Decent climbing, but really short. Boulder height, but the landing is lousy.

TRS. Some really good and some super awkward jams. Had to resort to laybacking at around halfway through.

Beautiful line and really enjoyable climbing. Led the second pitch.

Mostly just scrambling. 6 pitches, led the odd-numbered ones. Foot slipped out of nowhere on the peace mark pitch crack and took a small whipper. Sent it on the second go.

Superb route! Led even-numbered pitches.

Nice easily protectable little multi-pitch adventure. Led both pitches.

Nice trad practice with easy jams, jugs and placements

First trad lead