Member benefits 

CLIMBING SHIFT

Providing diverse and comprehensive climbing and training opportunities to club members is important to Alppikerho. As in previous years, Alppikerho also offers the opportunity to climb cheaper in all significant indoor climbing gyms in the capital region on the club's member shift days. The possibility to climb cheaper is made possible by negotiating discounts and subsidizing series cards sold separately for member shift days. The expenses from the shifts are covered by membership fees.

Helsingin Kiipeilykeskus, Tapanila (Helsinki Climbing Center)

  • Club shift on Wednesdays, all day.

  • 6 €/visit.

  • 10-time card, 50 €

  • Valid for 12 months from the date of purchase throughout the year.

  • The 10-time card is uploaded to the member's personal verification/access card.

  • You cannot buy a new 10-time card until the old one has been used up.

  • * In addition, a 10-time card, valid on all days, 75 €.

KiipeilyAreena, Salmisaari (Climbing Arena)

  • Club shift on Fridays, all day.

  • 10-time card, 50 €.

  • Valid for 18 months from the date of purchase throughout the year.

  • The 10-time card is uploaded to the member's personal verification/access card.

  • You cannot buy a new 10-time card until the old one has been used up.

KiipeilyAreena, Salmisaari, Redi, Tammisto, Ristikko (Climbing Arena)

  • 10-time card, 95 €.

  • Valid on all days of the week, at all locations, all day, 18 months from the date of purchase and throughout the year.

  • The 10-time card is uploaded to the member's personal verification/access card.

  • You cannot buy a new 10-time card until the old one has been used up.

Draikkatorni (Paloheinä Drytooling Tower)

  • Club shift on Wednesdays at 17:00->

  • Club members climb free of charge.

  • Active members of the club will be present, and the club will provide ice axes and drytooling shoes.

  • Non-members can participate in the shift for 10 €, and when borrowing equipment for 15 €. Payment in the Holvi online store beforehand.

At the beginning of 2018, a three-sided drytooling tower for practicing drytool climbing was completed in cooperation with adventure park Korkee and Alppikerho. You can practice at the tower by buying a one-time visit, getting a season ticket or participating in a membership shift on wednesdays. More information on the drytooling tower page.

The price of a season ticket (1.9. - 30.8.) is 100 € for members, a one-time visit 10 € with own equipment and 15 € with equipment borrowed from the club. The Drytooling support membership price, including the season ticket, is 120 €.

DISCOUNTS AND OTHER BENEFITS

Adventure Partners

Adventure Partners offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount in the online store on the normal priced products of the Nuuksio ice park and climbing courses organized in Southern Finland. You can get the discount by purchasing the product from Adventure Partners' online store with the code Alppikerho22. Prepare to prove your Alppikerho membership with your electronic membership card. Adventure Partners offers ice climbing and rock climbing courses and events, snow safety courses and off-piste skiing technique courses and free skiing camps. They also offer first aid training suitable for climbers, rescue courses, climbing coaching and glacier courses.

Camu

The climbing shop Camu offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount on all normally priced products, excluding avalanche backpacks and literature. You can get a discount by showing your electronic membership card in the store. (Camu store is located in Pulttitie 20 Helsinki).

Ylämäkialamäki Shop Tapiola

By showing your membership card you will receive a -10% discount on normally priced products. In the Ylämäkialamäki Shop, you can find "Dynafit, Salewa and Wild Country products for running, hiking, climbing and leisure time." (Ylämäkialamäki Shop is located in Länsituulentie 8 Espoo.)

Helsingin Kiipeilykeskus Puoti

Helsingin Kiipeilykeskus Puoti climbing shop in Tapanila offers Alppikerho members a 15% discount on all normally priced products on sale. You can get a discount by showing your membership card.

Kiipeilyareena (Salmisaari, Kalasatama and Tammisto)

KiipeilyAreena offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount on the Shop. You can get a discount by showing your electronic membership card.

Tampereen kiipeilykeskus (Tampere Climbing Center)

Tampereen kiipeilykeskus offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount on one-time prices. You can get a discount by showing your electronic membership card.

Treeline.fi

Treeline offers Alppikerho members a 15% discount on the online store. The code was sent to members by email in February 2023. If you have joined after this, ask for the code by emailing info@alppikerho.fi or e.g. via a private message on Instagram.

Varuste.net

The Varuste.net store offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount in the store. You can get a discount by showing your electronic membership card.

Vuoristoretket

Vuoristoretket offers Alppikerho members a 10% discount on all ice clmbing and rock climbing courses in Finland and -5% on courses abroad. The membership price can be obtained by presenting the electronic membership card. Since 1998, Vuoristoretket has offered training and guidance in various mountain sports such as rock and alpine climbing, free skiing, glacier hiking, ski hiking, and avalanche awareness.

Other benefits

Alppikerho sends members' shoes to Shoedoctor about once a year, usually around summertime. The next shoe resoling will be announced on the website, Facebook, Instagram and in the email newsletter. The price of the resoling of the shoes for the member is according to Shoedoctor's current price list, but the club takes care of the shipping and shipping costs.

EQUIPMENT RENTAL

Alppikerho has ice axes, crampons, glacier crampons, drytooling shoes and 3 snow safety packages available for rent for club members (including an avalanche beacon, a probe and a shovel).

Ice axes: Quark / X-Dream

  • 20 €/weekend

  • 30 €/week

Crampons: Grivel G14 / Petzl Lynx / Black Diamond Cyborg

  • 20 € / weekend

  • 30 € / week

Ice climbing set: Quark/X-Dream ice axes and crampons

  • 30 € / weekend

  • 40 € / week

Hiking crampons: Black Diamond Sabretooth

  • 20 € / weekend

  • 30 € / week

Drytooling shoes (“fruitboots“)

  • 20 € / weekend

Snow safety set x3 (Ortovox avalanche beacon, probe and shovel)

  • 30 € / week

The equipment is reserved by e-mail from info@alppikerho.fi and paid before the start of the rental period in the club's online store. The availability of equipment can be checked in the booking calendar. Remember to familiarize yourself with rental terms and conditions before you rent equipment.

CLIMBING INSURANCE AND CLIMBING MAGAZINE

Alppikerho is a member of the Finnish Climbing Association (SKIL), which publishes the twice-yearly Kiipeily magazine. The magazine is mailed to all Alppikerho members who have paid the full membership fee. The latest issue of the magazine can only be read in paper form, but you can read old magazines free of charge on Kiipeilyliitto website in Finnish.

In addition, the climbing insurance negotiated by the association with OP insurance company is a significant member benefit for members who have paid the full membership fee of Alppikerho. The insurance comes into effect on January 1st, when you pay the membership fee during January. If you pay later, it will take effect on the day of payment at 24:00 or at the time of payment. Keep the payment receipt, which shows the payment time. The insurance ends on 31 December. In case of accident, the insured proves the validity of the insurance (SKIL) with a receipt of the membership fee paid to the member club. In case of accident, save the receipt on e.g. your mobile phone, so it's always with you. And when dealing with the insurance company in climbing insurance matters, take the receipt with you.

NOTE! Sports insurance intended for OP's climbing is mainly insurance intended for domestic and short trips abroad for sport climbing. If you are planning a trip longer than three months or climbing in mountain conditions, you should take out travel insurance for this with the necessary climbing supplements. The insurance is, of course, significantly more expensive than just “Sporttiturva”-insurance, but it covers door-to-door coverage without an upper limit in euros and includes both accidents and illnesses. More information, see Insurance terms

The website of the climbing association has information on e.g. about the training and competition activities organized by the association, access information (parking near climbing crags, climbing restrictions and possible bans) and links to companies and organizations in the climbing world.

The Climbing Association is a member of the International Climbing Association (UIAA). If you look at a climbing rope or other climbing equipment, you may notice the UIAA mark, or roof association approval, on them. Trial testing and type approval of equipment is one of the services offered by UIAA to climbers

MEMBERSHIP CARD AND ALPINE HUT STICKER

You can download an electronic membership card and access your own information at http://flomembers.com/alppikerho (if you don't remember your login or your activation link has expired, send us a message).

For membership matters, you can contact Alppikerho's member representative: jasen@alppikerho.fi

There are two types of membership cards: one for those who have paid the full membership fee (i.e. also the membership fee portion of the Finnish Climbing Association, Suomen Kiipeilyliitto), and the other for those who do not want SKIL membership. From 2019, the membership card is an electronic membership card that can be downloaded from the membership register. Instructions are sent to new members upon joining, and old members are automatically sent a new card at the beginning of the year when the membership fee has been registered.

Alpine club members who have paid the full membership fee can also buy a 50-euro alpine hut sticker for their membership card, which entitles them to discounts in alpine huts in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Slovenia. The sticker is valid for one calendar year. The sticker must be ordered at the beginning of the year as the delivery takes some time.

ACTIVITIES

Alppikerho also organizes activities for its members, from workshops to climbing trips to club evenings. Read more under Activities.

(updated 9.9.2024)