Lead guide, Finnish Lakeland and Lapland
Liisa Korhonen
“Every day outdoors should end in a sauna. That is not a suggestion.”
Liisa splits her year between canoe routes in the Lakeland and snowshoe trails in Lapland. She is a wilderness first-aid instructor and believes no day outdoors is complete without a sauna and a cold lake.
- Lives in
- Savonlinna
- Guiding since
- 2011
- Speaks
- Finnish, Swedish, English
- Trips
- 4
Why I guide
I grew up by a lake with a canoe, a sauna and very few neighbours. In my twenties I moved to Helsinki and missed the quiet so much that I came back and started taking people out on the water.
Now I follow the seasons: canoes and gravel bikes in the Lakeland in summer, snowshoes and skis in Lapland in winter. Finland is quiet, and I want people to learn to enjoy that quiet as much as I do.
How I guide
Calm, safe and unhurried. I am a wilderness first-aid instructor, so safety is part of every day, but you will hardly notice. I leave plenty of time for swimming, berries and doing nothing at all.
What I love out there
- The northern lights over a frozen lake
- A smoke sauna and a jump through the ice
- Picking blueberries straight from the forest floor
- Paddling at midnight in July, when it never gets dark
Favourite places
- Linnansaari National Park
- The fells of Pallas-Yllästunturi
- Lake Saimaa's quiet bays, home of the Saimaa ringed seal
My pick
Snowshoe and sauna
Finland · 4 days · €820 per person
“Lapland in winter is magical, and this trip has everything: snowshoe days in the forest, northern lights at night and a sauna every evening.”
Trips with Liisa
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