To all our friends.

This is not normal. We use to have snow and ice at Nordmarken Kanot Center this time of the year, but nature is working against us who love real winter. So have a look at the canoe bay and I do hope it will be better.

“May the winter be with you”

Jag saknar snö och kyla

Just nu är vintern borta i Nordmarken. Vi denna tid för ett par år sedan var det kallt, bra med snö och varje dag en flock rådjur utanför kontors fönstret, Det var 12 st. som mest på en gång och vi hade namn på de flesta . Storbocken, Horn Pär, den lille, de tres gäng mm. Nu hittar de mat i skogen ändå eftersom det är bar mark så vi lägger inte ut stöd foder.

Efter 16780 kilometer äntligen åter i Sweitzerland. Respect.

Under sommaren 2015 hade vi ganska många gäster med en del specialiteter. I dag kom en hälsning från ett par som bodde på Bed and Breakfast hos oss ett par dager för att vila lite,

Nu kom en fin hälsning efter att de kört genom 26 olika länder under 365 dagar och totalt cyklat 16.780 km. Imponerande. Det finns i dag folk som påstår att saker kan vara jobbiga men jag tror att har man den rätta inställningen så går det att genomföra otroliga ting

Modern time !

Today in the local News Paper there was one of my photos from an expedition I made to North West Greenland several years ago. On a brake on the ice some Inuit show me what children had to play with in the Igloos during winter time. The reason to send it to the local News Paper was they were asking for funny photos and the text to this was “We Inuit don’t need Internet we have our own Net”

100% canoing 30 years after start of the Macfie Canoe Club

The famous Macfie Canoe Club has had their thirty years anniversary. About fifty members came for the weekend north of Karlsborg all very experience canoers. Paddling Trading, Stories and
I´m very sorry that we from Nordmarkens Kanot Center didn’t had the time to come to the meeting.

Paddling is not only a business for us as a canoe outfitter it´s a life style. 
I´m proud to present a photo, from one of the members, of the group last weekend´s rendevous, folks who now how to swing a paddle.

Some of the last entusiasts

Right now there are more mushrooms and berries than canoers in Nordmarken. This small group is back. Some was here several years ago and now they are out for a fishing and canoe tour.
The temperature in the water are getting lower and lower every day so the fishing gets better and better. I wish them in Swedish “Skit fiske” a word we fishermen use to let our guests have a good fishing and time in the wilderness.

This afternoon we got some more guests and we now have folks from Germany, Norway, Portugal and Sweden  so a bit international at Nordmarken Canoe Center this week.

A very long canoe tour 15 days.WOW

This gentleman came back to day after a 15 day long canoe tour around in Nordmarken. He has made a lot of the smaller lakes and narrow rivers in the area after information from us when we planned his solo tour.

When he passed Stora Bör there wear a lot of canoers on many island with their red tents from a large German Company who claim there are more than 80 Island at that lake but it´s a dream.

Due to some severe wind he made a good decision to day. Alone in a canoe with heavy wind it´s not a good option, so he took the canoe wheels and hike the road for 12 kilometre back Base Camp.

After so long tour he really enjoyed our Bed & Breakfast for a couple of days.  After some serious feedback from him about the tour, he mention that the one who teach me to paddle in 1957  late Stefan Henning, had been a good friend of him, so the conversation went on about The Macfie Canoe Club, some of our common friends in Holland with Bushcraft and Survival .

Stefan Henning and I made a lot of canoe tours together and even a winter expedition to Svartisen I Norway.  It’s good to have time to sit back and have nice talks with customer.