April
Info on how to fix your bike (only for members)
On 2 April 2025 at 18.00. We will inform the place later.
Would you like to learn how to fix your bike and then enjoy the well working bike? How to fix your bike info will be organized on April starting at 18.00. The place is to be informed later.
Registration for the info will be opened in winter 2025. Follow our website and social media!
For more information, please contact Toni Mäenharju, email toni.maenharju@gmail.com, tel. 050 567 0063
Exercise group for those who used to be young
Programme in April:
- 3 April at 114-15 gym at Vesikko
- 10 April at 14-16 gym at Vesikko
- 17 April at 14-16 gym at Vesikko
- 24 April at 14-16 gym at Vesikko
More information on the activities, please contact Tuula Turunen, email thturunen@gmail.com, tel. 050 372 6242
Ski touring on Karhunpolku path
5 -9 April 2025 in Lieksa
Come and enjoy spring snow on this ski tour on Patvinsuo national Park in Lieksa! We meet on Saturday 5 April at 10 at the Suomu Nature hut, address Suomuntie 54, Lieksa. We will ski 10-15 km per day. You need to have skis and other ski tour equiment (clothes, sleeping bag etc) and your own food with you. Members of Joensuun Latu can borrow equipment from the association.
We will end the tour on Wednesday 9 April in the afternoon at Suomu Nature center. From there we have car tranportation to Suomu Nature Hut.
The minimum number of registrations is 4, maximum eight. E.g. if there are eight participants, the car transportation from Suome Nature Center to Suomu Nature hut is 18,75 e/person (150 e totally).
In case we have no snow in April, we leave skis at home and walk this path.
This ski tour is demanding. The tour will be guided by Kimmo Karttunen and Tuula Turunen.
Please register by 15 February.
For more information and to register, please contact Kimmo Karttunen, kimmo.j.karttunen@edu.riveria.fi
Joensuun Latu annual general spring meeting
(only for members)
The annual general spring meeting takes place on 9 April 2025 at 18.00 at the Sports Institute of Eastern Finland, ISLO, address: Länsikatu 15, Joensuu. In the meeting, the annual report and financial statement of 2024 are dealt.
The meeting material will be published on the Joensuun Latu website one week before the meeting.
For more information on the meeting, please contact Tanja Perkkiö, email tanja.perkkio@gmail.com, tel. 0500 947 202
Overnight trip at Koitajoki
26–27 April 2025
On Saturday evening, 16 April, we drive to Ala-Koitajoki, to a parking place few kilometres from the Ala-Koitajoki lean-to. We accomodate there. In the morning, everybody cooks and eats his/her breakfast, packs things and we walk a longer route back to the cars. We decide the lenght of the route on spot, depanding e.g. on how much there is snow in the area.
Please take your own hiking gear with you (backpack, tent, sleeping bag etc.) Joensuun Latu members can borrow hiking equipment from the association.
The maximum number of participants is eight.
This overnight hiking trip is quite demanding.
Please register by 6 April to Juha Tiainen, email juhaolli@gmail.com
Moomin camping school
On 29 April, 6 May, 13 May, 20 May 2025 at 17.30–19.20 at Kuhasalo
Moomin camping school has four meetings in spring as above, and four meetings in the autumn (dates for the autumn are informed later). Camping school is for children aged 6–9. In the school, we explore nature and learn skills for camping through playful exercises.
We can take 12 kids to the Moomin camping school. Registration opens on 14 April on Joensuun Latu website.
To those registered, we send more information on Moomin camping school before the school starts.
More for information, please contact Kirsi Soikkeli, kirsi.soikkeli64@gmail.com, tel. 044 548 5832.
More wellbeing from group exercise (only for members)
Would you like to improve your wellbeing by exercising in a group? Second year physiotherapist students at the Karelia University of Applied Sciences steer exercise groups on 29 April, 6 May, 13 May and 20 May. There will be two similar groups, a maximum of seven people in both. The other group trains on the mentioned days at 9.00-9.45 and the other one at 10.00-10.45, at the Karelia Tikkarinne campus, address Tikkarinne 9.
Please register by 1 April by email: tarmo@karelia.fi or by phone, tel. 050 913 1787. When registering, please mention that you would like to join the Joensuu Latu exercise group, give your preferred time (9-9.45 or 10-10.45) and your contact information: name, telephone number and email address.