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The Sjoa Expedition Journal - A great boating day
Monday, 12 July 2010
Spent the morning walking around Ridderspranget collecting images. The river gorge is narrow enough to jump across. A classic Norwegian folklore took place here. A Prince jumped across the river with his lady and loyal servant to get away from the chasing foe, he then pushed his loyal servant into the river to scare his chasers.
We put on after the jumping rock. Came through some great boogie water to a large 8m drop, which we portaged. Kept moving to where the river narrows into a gorge and drops again, another hot and sticky portage. Put on after the drop and ran a committing canyon, which opened up. Ran endless white water until Nybru Bridge. Four solid rapids followed after the bridge. A great stretch of white water!
Met Tom and Ella for a food drop and Ine exchanged her kayak for her raft. Saw 5 kayakers on the water today, our first sighting of other paddlers so far.
We are camping with a herd of young cow’s who are very interested in us.
Scott Martin