We spent two weeks in July in Engerdal-Femund area, where we wanted to introduce cpt. Lukas (almost two-years old) to camping, canoeing, hiking and cabin life. It went really well and we experienced a lot of wonderful moments. Selection of pictures below.
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| First 4 nights we camped in Femund Canoe Camp, situated along Sorka creek. It is a car-free camp with campsites spread in the forest. Reindeer walk often around. |
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| Actually, reindeer walk everywhere there. There were some mosquitos as well, but nothing serious. |
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| It is easy to paddle from the camp into Femund lake. Here is Sorka's mouth into the lake viewed from our inflatable canoe Palava . Another day we drove to a nearby lake system in Jyltingsmarka and explored lakes Glen and Halvorsjøen - it is an excellent family friendly water system. |
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| From the third day the weather has started to be rainy, so instead of canoeing we started "hiking". Here is our first destination - a little mountain Kvennvikhøgda (1075 m), hiked from Litvåvollen. |
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| The top offers great views towards Femund lake and in clear weather it must be really wonderful there. |
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| As the weather forecast was not very optimistic for the following days, we moved to a cabin at Valdalen gård. It is very nice deer farm with other animals as well (they even have peacocks there). Their deer burger meat is really good! |
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| There are some nice forests around. In nearby creek Vala it is possible to catch nice trout (I missed really nice one in one of the pools) |
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| As Valdalen gård is very close to Sweden, one day we made a trip to Swedish Fulufjällets national park. |
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| One of its main attraction is this almost 100m tall Njupeskär waterfall. |
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| We spent the whole day walking around, visited the waterfall and enjoyed an amazing visitor center. I hope to come back for some ice-fishing this winter. |
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| Back in Norway, the weather was not so nice. This picture is from one of my evening fishing trips, this one to Fjellgutusjøen. |
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| There is also this lovely sandy beach on Fjellgutusjøen and we had a great trip there with Lukas. |
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| Last part of our trip (5 nights) we spent in Elgå, in a cabin in my favorite Båtstø camping, doing simple trips around. One day we took Femund II boat, went to Revling and walked back along the lake. |
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| A small creek in nearby forest |
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| and an amazing beach near the camp. |
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| One of my evening fishing trips went to Hammarsjøen and further to Storsjøen (here I missed some good trout...) |
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| Another day we did a short hike to Brennhåmmåren mountain (947 m). We crossed this lovely stream |
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| and after a few hundred meters of steep hill we could enjoy 360 degrees view from the top. |
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| Still on the top. |
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| Last day we walked along Femund lake towards mouth of Elgåa. |
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| And I made my final evening fishing trip, this time to Volsjøen. It is always interesting to see the lake, that I know only from winter, during summer. |
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| Evening at Volsjøen. Clear water, storm is coming, I got some promising bites, but no fish on the land. |
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| This is the list of locations I tried to fish. I was not very successful in getting fish (one big bike, two big perch, a lot of small trout, several bigger trout lost), but it was great. |
