Family holiday in Femundsmarka

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. 

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. 

Actually, reindeer walk everywhere there. There were some mosquitos as well, but nothing serious.

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. 

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.

The top offers great views towards Femund lake and in clear weather it must be really wonderful there.

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!

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)

As Valdalen gård is very close to Sweden, one day we made a trip to Swedish Fulufjällets national park.

One of its main attraction is this almost 100m tall Njupeskär waterfall. 

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. 

Back in Norway, the weather was not so nice. This picture is from one of my evening fishing trips, this one to Fjellgutusjøen. 

There is also this lovely sandy beach on Fjellgutusjøen and we had a great trip there with Lukas. 

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.  

A small creek in nearby forest

and an amazing beach near the camp.

One of my evening fishing trips went to Hammarsjøen and further to Storsjøen (here I missed some good trout...)

Another day we did a short hike to Brennhåmmåren mountain (947 m). We crossed this lovely stream 

and after a few hundred meters of steep hill we could enjoy 360 degrees view from the top.

Still on the top. 

Last day we walked along Femund lake towards mouth of Elgåa.

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. 

Evening at Volsjøen. Clear water, storm is coming, I got some promising bites, but no fish on the land. 

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.