![]() ![]() Around another corner, and a small slide started the fun, and the river was white around the corner, off we went. The flat water continued for a while, hmmmmm, this is going to be steep indeed. At the top of the hike, was a lake, and about 5cumecs flowing out, in rather flat water, given the incline we’d just hiked, this seamed a false start for white water action. Benji’s description, was of a near continuous open and clean slide. We followed his guidance, that was more my orders, as his excitement was over flowing. Upon his return, Benji woke all up, and insisted that we decamped, moved 3km and hiked uphill for 1km, for a delight. ![]() During which time, Benji, went off to look at a project, the Mølheimbekken. We had late lunch on a beach, and all took a nap, what a holiday crew. A big kicker where you have all the speed, and the bed rock landing below, for sure stops any challenger to date. This river rises from Sweden, and cuts through brittle volcanic rock, and over some nice drops, and a mage slide close to the take out, that is probably yet to be run. In the morning, we awoke to bright sun shine, and the Krutårga, with it’s mega triple drop rapid was on the menu. DjusBoof, a famed drop was dropped.Īfter all the rain, our camping stuff was wet through, so we found a Hytta, and dried out over night. The grey day turned to rain, and we hoped for higher flows the next day, and we got 60 cumecs on the Susena classic section, which meant most to the drops were smooth with large holes to await the less lucky. A couple of larger slides, one like a free ride park with a range of possible lines, were at the putin, then 4 km of Class II, before the main section, which is a blend of bedrock drops, that either nicely are formed in the aspect of the bed rock or ugly by cutting through it, all in a low canyon, a great run with a must run at the take out, plus other great drops and rapids. With grey skies, and a cold northerly wind, we put on the Stor Fiplingdalelva. Erika’s van Vilmar, was of little help is trying to tow us out, so a local farmer with a 4WD was fetched, 2 minutes later and a bottle of fine Slovene wine lighter, we were underway to Stor Fiplingdalelva. High up in the catchment, there was a lot of rain, so by morning, the nice gravel beach we’d been camping on, was smaller, and with the water rising fast, my 313 MB Sprinter proved a little heavy, and wheel spun itself into a hole…. Some evening fly fishing on Vesna, and a little rain. ![]() I pushed the seat far far forward, took out one of the 4 seat pads, moved the thigh braces way back, da da, thankfully. OK, more of the same on another drop, an outfitting rethink was needed. She eddies well, boof’s nice, and gets worked in the hole, mmmmmmm I thought, she not like the Version 1 prototype, Id have since May, fast yes, but this one has something, well easy about it. On the first drop, eddy left, boot right, and down the guts through the hole. I have the fresh of the air freight, version 2 prototype of the new Dagger Mamba 8.6. ![]() first we hit the a late afternoon run, upon arrival on the upper Vesna, several bedrock drops in a wide canyon. So a great band, mainly Norwegians, but Swiss, Czech and myself in the mix, plus a couple of Chilean street dogs too. Jakub and myself, were joined by Dag from Voss, who in turn met up with Benji, Ron & Mariann, a day later Erika and Nini joined us too. So August seams to be the right time, it’s still warm, nearly bug less and you’re longing for adventures new, after the Summer season is closing out. So Nordland, well in fact Hatfjelldalen, is the spot for August paddling, you can go earlier, but you’ll each have 20,000+ mosquitoes to deal with. Above half way up Norway, is Nordland, which in a way is not true north, that is Finnmark, a treeless realm of Reindeer, that roam is a rugged land, that has a something of old and ancient about it. It would be fair to say, that I have been north, really north a few times on paddling adventures. A berry tour, a random walk in the forest, searching of berries, here and there with no linear path or destination in mind, only time taken, all to often like a paddling road trip if you are not too careful. ![]()
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