- Good conditions for granite
REPOVESI · GRANITE
Olhava — Laatta Wall climbing conditions
Good — dry and climbable
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- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
- Good conditions for granite
About Olhava — Laatta Wall
Olhava is by consensus the finest rock climbing in Finland — a 40m wall of rapakivi granite rising straight from the shore of Olhavanlampi lake inside Repovesi National Park. The Laatta sector is the classic: an 80-degree friction slab 38m high, small edges, and stellar cracks running to the top. Rapakivi ("rotten stone") is a Finnish geological term for a class of ~1.6 billion-year-old A-type granite characterised by rounded feldspar crystals and a distinctive weathering pattern — but the fresh climbing surfaces are bomber solid granite with granite-typical drying character. Most routes are trad on natural pro; some short bolted variations exist. Approach is a 3km walk from the Saarijärvi car park in Repovesi NP. Free camping with toilets and fire pits nearby. Mosquitoes are ferocious in July — bring headnet.
- Region
- Repovesi
- Rock type
- Granite
- Aspect
- south-facing
- Altitude
- 90m
- Exposure
- medium
- Seepage
- low