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Mandatory gear – 166 km

Carry all mandatory gear from start to finish. This list follows NUTS Karhunkierros’s confirmed gear table.

• Mobile phone, protected from water
• Self-adherent bandage, packed waterproof (at least 6 cm × 100 cm)
• Cup
• Spoon
• Water bottle or hydration bladder with at least 1 l capacity
• Emergency blanket
• Whistle
• Emergency food providing at least 250 kcal
• Headlamp or other emergency light
• Waterproof hooded shell jacket (hydrostatic head at least 10,000 mm)
• Gloves

Recommended gear

• Running poles, if you use them. Carry them throughout the route; do not leave them at an aid station or put them in a drop bag.
• Spare power for your phone; make sure the battery lasts until the finish.

Check out the event’s participant instructions here!

The 166 km start area is in Ruka, so no bus from Ruka to the start is needed. At registration, choose a broad period in which you intend to start the route. The team releases participants onto the route according to conditions at the start area; you do not reserve a separate start group on the route. Timing begins when you actually start.

Start, Aid stations & finish Cut-Offs

📍🏃‍♀️Start Ruka
⛺️Konttainen 7,3km
⛺️Basecamp 25,0km
⛺️Oulangan luontokeskus 56,8km
⛺️Napapiiri 84,3km
⛺️Oulangan luontokeskus 111,9km
⛺️Basecamp 143,7km
⛺️Konttainen 161,4km
🏁Ruka 168,7km

CUT-OFFS
👉 166 km – Start to Finish: 36 h
👉166 km – Start to Napapiiri (Cut-Off): 16 h
👉166 km – Start to Oulanka (Cut-Off): 22 h
👉166 km – Start to Konttainen (Cut-Off): 33 h

DROP BAG TRANSPORT
🧳For participants in the 166 km distance, we transport a “drop bag” from Ruka to the Oulanka Visitor Centre and the turnaround point at Hautajärvi.

Distances