first steps and I neglected to ask how
long he would be on the road. I can
image a very long time! Maybe he is
still hiking?
After leaving Nordkapp, the fun
began!
I watched my thermometer going
from 10C to 8 to 6 and decreasing
very rapidly until it was freezing and
below zero at minus 2C, (28F). I still
felt everything was going well until
I crested a ridge to notice it was all
white – at first, I thought my face
shield was steamed up. I was not go-
ing to be so lucky – after about anoth-
er 8 hours of snow, rain, sleet, hail,
and all other forms of precipitation
known by modern science, alternat-
ing at unpredictable intervals, I final-
ly arrived to the lodge I had booked
and promptly put all my riding gear in
their hot room in hopes that I would
not need to put on wet clothes in the
morning. I kept an anxious watch
during the night as the snow contin-
ued to build in hopes that I would be
able to ride in the morning. Could
this really be happening in July?!
I was lucky and most of the snow
cleared by morning and I was on my
TRAVERSE 65
way to, hopefully, warmer weather
as I continued south. Clothes were
about 95% dry in the morning – ready
for some fresh and new precipitation
– but no snow.
Continuing my travels, I went from
Norway into Sweden to catch up with
some great friends and back into
southern Norway for a few days –in-
credible riding and nature!
Next, I took the ferry to Denmark
and celebrated my birthday at a rus-
tic farmhouse – I did not realise it
was so remote, with no restaurants
near – so the owner brought me my