Kimmo Alaraudanjoki

A good route to train placing gear for beginners.

Best line of the easier ones on this block.

Nice one, a good warmup.

Fucked up the topout on the flash try. Soft.

It's a very good line, excellent moves and a little excitement from the height. Loved it.

Second go, next day after climbing Nihls Bohr next to it.

Good beta from Andreas, for myself this feels a tad soft but hey who knows. Suits my style well, hence the accidental flash.

The first move is quite tricky for a 6A.

Stiff beginning, go for a drop knee and forget the hold on the right if you aren't short.

Tricky technical sit start, nice one for such a short line.

Quite a good line with cool moves, much fun.

Sometime last fall.

It's a good line, felt a bit stiff but it was also a bit wet and mossy.

Sometime last fall, date not exact. Loved it.

Easy slab, quite nice for a short finnish sport route.

Really nice and easy, great cracks with excellent options for placements. Makes me kinda want to do more trad stuff...

Tough beginning with a nice bouldery start, rest of the way scrambling up dusty shelves.

First trad route ever! Quite scared, but managed to do it. Hand jams and cracks. Physical.

Cool highball cruising, brings back those onsights!

Very cool line, solid 7A at least - not sure about the +.

Topo graded 7A.

Trave.

Very nice topout for me, maybe way scarier for others! :D

Nice technical start and a cool overhang slopy topout!

Dropped a huge block off the wall!

soft?

Supermorpho two-move wonder.

Topout balancy stuff, really nice!

Mantel!

Cool cruising!

Eight tries, the target was five. Nice little problem!

Took quite a bunch of tries. If you go really far on the arete with the left you'll definitely know when you have gone far enough - after you get the right place it's a walk in the park.

Thought this was kulmapaini, but apparently once again I was a victim of too many goddamn lines in a single rock/face.

Great one!

2nd go, nowhere near three stars quality though. Pretty ok short tougher start to a 4-5 grade scramble up.

2nd go, had a shitty day when tried the onsight.

Third go, first try was to study the moves well + place quick draws and the second lead try went perfect. Great holds, sustained, steep!

Fourth go. Easy start, really bouldery and tough starting from the roof section. Wild falls after the roof if you don't get to clip and fall from the face into the cave.

Nice one!

Quite hard for a 6a+ at least when on sighting, oh well.

Felt soft to me. Still, a great line!

Fourth go. Nice, short line and the ss will be left for an another day. Too hot!

Nice high step stuff.

Good line!

Quite unreal feeling holds! Beautiful overhang with a steep topout!

I am a lousy, lousy slab lizard. Felt like a 6B but I know it's not that hard. Good training for me!

Four sessions overall, very nice powerful moves all the way. I think this is the best problem I've done in Koivusaari so far. And it's my birthday so yay!

2nd go, fell at the first move on flash try. Easy route for me and I got good beta from others. Nice line!

Silly little problem.

One session with about 10 tries perhaps. Excellent line, easy on the fingers and a bit balancy. Topout is a bit shaky.

Two sessions and an epic obsessive battle of around 50 tries. The holds are apparently better now than before, but still it's not a picnic to send. Especially taking the right way in top out. This was before the broken hold incident.

Fifth try, great problem!

Stand start according to topo pic. If it is ss, it should be mentioned. Anyway, nice line!

Not sure what exactly is eliminated, but didn't feel as hard as savumuuri.

Good line.

A really good line in my opinion, one of the best easy ones that I've climbed! Easy but a good highball so the challenge goes more to your mind. Good holds all the way.

Took a bunch of tries, not the best problem but fun to jump it with friends!

One session. Reachy first move.

One session, felt quite easy once I figured beta for myself and had a good try without slips and mistakes. First day outdoors after the winter, like 2 degrees! A bit cold.

On the soft side, maybe. A couple of harder moves added to the easy stand start.

After figuring out the right beta for me, felt quite simple.

2nd go. After this, the high fever kicked in!

Horrible. :D

Vemon hieno sittariprojekti - el classico!

Nice line!

A bit scary, but I had a shaky day mentally. What a wuss. :D

Adventurous downclimb.

Excellent easy problem. The large rail at the topout is a bit loosen up and scary.

Really nice problem!

Silly traverse with a nice seal topout!

Exciting topout, cool line!

Soft or this has to be some silly eliminate. Go figure. :)

Scary transition to arete. Assis goes to todo list.

Scared. First time leading, my progress was 'a bit hazardous'. Alive though and it was fun, in a way...

Third try was the charm, a sweet line on a pretty setting! The pic doesn't show how nice the surroundings are.

A good line and in my opinion a harder than the next one the left.

A good one even though it's kinda sharp.

I liked this one very much, great rock, nice moves, so much fun to climb!

Powerful moves plus the sketchy landing equals a good problem. :D

Epic battle with goddamn bulge topout. Feels so good though, the sun is shining above the sea and we're hanging out at the block...

Liked this one a lot more than the neighboring line.

Kivaa läpsyttelyä ja sormille lempeä!

Nice slapping!

Dyno/deadpoint to lil' shelf. Dyno all the way up is probs 7 something, but a bit needless eliminate as the are quite a lot of obvious holds on the line.

Original right hand deadpoint version, powerful!