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!