Operation Grouse expedition Norway

[joe careless]

Signed up for this 8 day trip via Ray Mears’ company, deposit paid, and my personal kit room checked to see what kit I need to buy/ update.

I fly out on the anniversary of losing my dad to cancer using money he left me, I’ve got to do something adventurous and we often watched the Heroes of Telemark together; dad had got me the book of Ray Mears series about Telemark.

It also distracts me from the shit storm my ex has created with cutting contact to my daughter, proper parental alienation so it all in courts again.. ffs

I also really want to be freed of the Schwinn Clunker I got from Dr Si a few years back, in fact I want to be freed from most of my collection.
Life laundry time

 

[MatBH5]

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Sounds like a great trip, do share photos on here.
What time of year will this be, all-daylight summer or icy winter?
Good luck with the life laundry. I think that Phantom might be an inch too big for me :facepalm:

 

[Jamiedyer]

Sorry to hear about the life laundry mate, it's always good to do but sometimes the reasons for starting it are shite.
The trip sounds brilliant, you should have a great time. I really like Ray Mears and have followed his stuff since I arrived here many years ago, reminds me of the Bush Tucker man, Les Hiddens back home, who was very similar, just a generation before. Being a canoeist myself I really like the stuff he does on the rivers. Seen him speak a couple of years back in Inverness about the Boreal forest and some of his trips, It was just him on stage with the canoe he made in Canada.
Certainly report back about it and try not to let the other stuff get to you too much.

Jamie

 

[CTK]

This trip might be just what you need.

Get your bikes on ebay if you want to sell, they are all quality and they'll sell for good money if you offer postage.

 

[joe careless]

Re: Re:

Sounds like a great trip, do share photos on here.
What time of year will this be, all-daylight summer or icy winter?
Good luck with the life laundry. I think that Phantom might be an inch too big for me :facepalm:

Going in March 2020 the Phantom is in the keeping rack and tbh there’s someone long in the bone has first refusal if I do release it

 

[hamster]

Sounds like a great trip. I've camped on the Hardangervidda in summer - bleak then - would love to go back at other times of the year.

 

[roadking]

Interesting expedition.

I've recently returned from a sailing trip to St Kilda(we chartered a yacht), something we've been trying to do for years but the Atlantic Ocean had meant aborting previous attempts - the ocean was kinder this year.

We landed and walked on the island, and sailed to the Stac before leaving for the mainland.

Awesome.

Rk.

 

[The History Man]

Life is always testing. Resilience is an amazing thing. We all have it. Good that you're sharing your thoughts and feelings. hang in there and call upon those of us willing to listen and empathise. You can count me on that list chum. Always a bed and a meal and a fire at History Towers wherever that might be. Or just a message anytime.


And how big is the crossfell? Wish I'd kept the Phantom. Was too precious about it though.

 

[hamster]

I've recently returned from a sailing trip to St Kilda(we chartered a yacht), something we've been trying to do for years but the Atlantic Ocean had meant aborting previous attempts - the ocean was kinder this year.

We landed and walked on the island, and sailed to the Stac before leaving for the mainland.

My father was the CO of the island for 9 months in the 1950s. In the winter the supply ship couldn't get in for 3 months - as you know Village Bay is very exposed. They lived on tinned food left over from WW2!
On the top, the wind speed on one of the radar towers recorded a gust over 200mph.

A wild and wonderful place. One of his jobs was to innoculate the seals against Distemper: he reports that an angry Atlantic Grey seal is substantially faster up that boulder beach than a man...

 

[roadking]

I've recently returned from a sailing trip to St Kilda(we chartered a yacht), something we've been trying to do for years but the Atlantic Ocean had meant aborting previous attempts - the ocean was kinder this year.

We landed and walked on the island, and sailed to the Stac before leaving for the mainland.

My father was the CO of the island for 9 months in the 1950s. In the winter the supply ship couldn't get in for 3 months - as you know Village Bay is very exposed. They lived on tinned food left over from WW2!
On the top, the wind speed on one of the radar towers recorded a gust over 200mph.

A wild and wonderful place. One of his jobs was to innoculate the seals against Distemper: he reports that an angry Atlantic Grey seal is substantially faster up that boulder beach than a man...

That's interesting Hamster, and yes the bay is exposed. We anchored two nights in the bay and had quite a swell on the first, so much so one of us was always awake as the anchor was dragging - second night was a lot calmer and we got some sleep.

It was something we had wanted and tried to do for some years, and the weather was the kindest it had ever been (to us).

Rk.