Karvio

A very large concentration of boulders, both rocks and walls. The boulders are quite scattered over a large area. So the potential has only been scratched, so there is plenty more to climb…

At one winter legendary climber from Joensuu (Sami Koponen) waded in a waist-deep snow for a really long run and manage to found some nice blocks from the area… Somehow, however, Sami managed to pass perhaps the finest ones and the area was forgotten for a while, until the namesake from Kuopio (Sami Romppainen) came to check the potential of the place in summer conditions. This is how the area began to develop...