The Paddler ezine WW kayak collection 2013 | Page 59

It took us just four hours on the boat to reach
Europe’s white water paradise. Reaching Norway
we were a little sad to see it was raining like hell
and we were just prayed that it would stop soon.
Luckily, as we woke up the next morning, we
found blue sky, sun and not a single cloud in the
sky.
It took us another hour in the car until we
reached our first river, called the Skogsgåa. The
water was pretty high, so we decided to run the
lower part below the big drop. However, the drop
looked pretty cool. So we ran the almost vertical
40-foot slide as a warm up!

As we got up late that day and spent a lot of time,
taking photos and videos, we left our boats at the
drop and searched for a place to stay the night.
We were so stoked to be right there in Norway
with the sun in the sky and huge water levels.
The next morning we woke up with the same
beautiful weather – bright sun and 23°C. The
lower part of the Skogsgåa started pretty easy
with a few big waves and huge holes until you
see the bridge at the take-out. We then returned
upstream to find more filming areas and we
ended up scouting countless huge holes and
insane places for video shots.

NORWAY
FACT:
Glomma River
is the Longest
River in
Norway.

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