Description

Hakunila has many popular powerful routes and pumpy traverses. The rock quality is good enough. It also dries quickly after the rain and is one of the first crags dry in the spring. The boulder is located right next to Kehä III, which leads to a very short and easy approach, but as a downside the constant noise of traffic distracts from climbing.

The most popular routes here are:

Hanoi Rocks 7A+
Blade Runner 6C
Naboo 6B

All three are greatly recommended. The rock has many traverses from 6B+ to 7B+, that can work as test pieces to improve your skills and endurance, one logical step at a time.

Block number 2 offers few routes that are easier, but taller. It's worth to check either for warm up or training. When the main block sees scorching sun during the afternoon/evening, the second block enjoys shade.

History

The Hakunila blocks are easy to spot when driving Kehä 3 and it's safe to assume that there's been climbers for a very long time. All the routes were presented already at the SKIL's 2003 red topo book, but some route names indicate that the active development took place around the year 2000.

The first topo book did not have any verbal instructions to any of routes. Only a hand drawn picture of the block with some lines on it. Also 27crags missed route infos for quite a long time. Some knew the original ways to climb the routes (from slouppi discussions or Lyseo Topos), but most did not. This resulted to another layer of routes with slightly different instructions added here. This topo should now have the original instructions for the routes.