Early June I hade five days guiding with a Norwegian school class. It was 24 students 14-15 years old, three teachers and one parent. This was the forth time I was guiding a class from
Steinerskolen at Nesodden in
Dalslands kanal. We startled on Monday, June 6th (the Swedish national day) at
Kanalvillan where I have been working for about ten years as a guide.
The first night was at
Baldersnäs and day two we paddled through seven locks upp to the lake
Lelång at
Bengtsfors. After a very nice evening we woke up to a rather windy day. As we were on an island there was no chance for us but to wait until the wind had calmed a bit before continuing. Around 2 PM (14:00) I considered it safe enough to enter the canoes and proceed towards
Kråkviken. It was a long day before we arrived at
Skifors at midnight, everyone was very tired and it was just strait into our tents (and me into my hammock).
The last day I paddled with them was down
Svärdlång, one of Sweden's absolutely most beautiful lakes for canoeing, and then onto
Laxsjön and the camp at Baldernäs again. During the last night a sudden storm came through our camp and one big tree was boken in half! I had to sadly leave this nice school class an my boss Åke was in charge the last two hours. It was probably the hardest trip I have done with this school but the kids did very well and their teachers should be very proud of them. Once again I met my friend Jonas (PE teacher for the class) and Grace who is the class head teacher. That was very nice to see them again.
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| Two of the canoes arriving att "Världens ände" at Baldersnäs |
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| One of the kids and Grace is going up the first lock. |
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| Behind me in the lock |
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| Hammock camping at it's best. |
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| View from inside my hammock |
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| Canoes |
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| Lazy paddling |
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| Nice and warm |
