Author Archives: Sampsa Jyrkynen

Weekend on the Marmolada

Last weekend we had a a fairly productive weekend on the Dolomites with Teppo. Our plane arrived in Milano at 7 pm on Friday evening. The weather forecast was crappy everywhere else but the Dolomites looked very promising. The week … Continue reading

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Missed flights and compensation

During our Gondo trip we had some inconveniences with flights. We missed our connecting flight both ways because the first leg of our flights was late. This is mainly a climbing blog and I don’t usually write about this kind of things but now I’ll make … Continue reading

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Weekend on the Martinswand

In the end of March I had another of these short weekend trips with Teppo. This time we went for the climbing near Munich. We hoped that the conditions would have been good in Wetterstein (plan A) or Rätikon (plan … Continue reading

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Gondo, Switzerland

Gondoschlucht is a small ice climbing site on the Swiss/Italian border near Milan. The base is at 1100 meters of altitude and most of the ice falls are in the 150-300 meters range with difficulties of WI3 and upwards. It … Continue reading

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