A few days back from the Scandinavian arctic now. It was a wonderful trip through a variated landscape. If I read my latest post again from before I left, it’s obvious that I have been uncertain about the condition of my bad knee. Despite there were still some problems on the trip, I was able to cover large distances almost every day. So I’m very happy to have hiked and packrafted the entire length of the Lyngen Alps at the end.
I encountered this little lemming while stopped for the midday lunch near Langvatnet under Steindalstinden in the Lyngen Alps.
The packrafting was a lot of fun, especially the Poroeno river was quite a great river for packrafting as was the more gentle Reisaelva. The salt water crossings were a fluke. I mostly had good conditions and even saw several harbour porpoises with calves swimming by. One time a ringed seal showed up a few meters before the bow. The lemmings and reindeer were also well presented on the land.
Ready to re-enter the river Poroeno in Finland after portaging the long and rocky PR3-4 rapids south of Jorba-Cierti.
After each long trip I always want to quickly take off again. My friend Willem Vandoorne has an Alpacka packraft now too. I’m excited to have a companion now for the packraft trips in the future. We will start with the Kleine Nete river here close to my home. This river was the very first river I ever did by packraft now somewhat more than a year ago. When I entered the water on that trip, I discovered I had forgotten to put a memory card in my camera. Time to rectify that mistake!
Tvist is the first time everk i’ve frem å cute picture of a lemming, it is always the angry side, well done. 🙂
There is a saying in Norway that every forth year or so , you can drink all the lemenjuice you like in the mountains for free. Ouch!
I have a troblesome knee also. In the beginning of my two week trip on Hardangervidda, every downhill walk was a pain. Then I remembered the quick fix of last year; walking barefoot for about a half an hour every day.
I just completed my hike with a monster downhill climb to Odda with no problems! If you have the map of this area just reading the contourlines may make your knees hurt 😉
regards
Sounds like you had a great trip. Looking forward to seeing your pictures and reading trip reports.
/Jonas
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