The Great Outdoors - Hiking and so on…

[endo]

Thanks guys, I‘m glad you‘re enjoying this. We‘ve been driving 3500km within the last 12 days, 3000km on norwegian country roads. Now we‘re heading for Finland.

[endo]

A last night at the arctic ocean (Barents sea to be precise).

[endo]

cheers @neph93

[neph93]

@endo:

cheers @neph93

Cheers, buddy.

I asked Hot Ingrid if we could open the box you generously gifted her last night… but she wants to save it for a warm evening… so next year sometime [emoji28]

[endo]

But look, if your wife wants to save a 5l box of wine for a warm evening with you … that doesn‘t sound too bad. You sould be patient. 

[Jett129]

@endo:

But look, if your wife wants to save a 5l box of wine for a warm evening with you … that doesn‘t sound too bad. You sould be patient. 

I like the way your thinking!

[mclaincausey]

Hiking topic + boxed wine recalls a hiking and camping ProTip: you can take the bag out of the boxed wine container and pack it in more easily than boxes and bottles. Really efficient way to reduce the waste you pack out.

*The More You Know

[JDelage]

We've been in Sun Valley, Idaho for the past week. We did a number of hikes, the most ambitious of which was summiting mount Hyndman. Here are a few pics for your enjoyment.

The following pics are from a hike to Boulder City, which was a galena mining outpost that apparently closed in 1893.

[Bfd70]

That’s a neat old hat. Any details?

[AdamC]

Love the pics @JDelage , looks fantastic!

[JDelage]

The hat is a Freewheelers' Smokey Bear.

[neph93]

@JDelage:

Here are a few pics for your enjoyment.

Thoroughly enjoyable it was too. Almost cinematic quality to those shots.

[JDelage]

Yes, I was impressed by how well the iPhone did.

[Fadez]

Great photos [mention]JDelage [/mention] ! Thanks for taking us along

[endo]

My little one got a bit homesick, so we basically rushed through Finland.

Also beautiful, VERY many forests and lakes, great people (exhibit A: all films by Aki Kaurismäki)

lots of Rudolphs crossing

And everywhere (also in Norway) this beautiful plant. Does anyone know its name?

Now we are crossing the Baltic sea on a ferry (Naantali to Kapellskär) through the 10000 or so skerries. Reminds me of Saltkråkan.

[goosehd]

@endo  Thank you for sharing your trip with us!  It reminds me of a camping/road trip from my youth (touring the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) with my dad.

I too became homesick and the trip was cut short/rushed towards the end.  I would give anything to be able to go back and spend that time over with him as it is now one of my most cherished childhood memories and I am sure this trip will be one of your son's too.

Enjoy and thanks again for sharing!

[endo]

thanks @goosehd . These childhood memories are so precious. I have the same, my parents took me through southern Europe in the 70s in an orange T2 Volkswagen bus. My son (and his three elder siblings) will hopefully pass this on one day …

[neph93]

@endo:

And everywhere (also in Norway) this beautiful plant. Does anyone know its name?

«Geitrams» in Norwegian, «fireweed» in the US, «bombweed» colloquially in the UK (interesting story) and in Latin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion_angustifolium

I’m staying in the high pastures in the mountains outside of Ålesund, and there is a cabin down the road that literally has a roof full of it:

[endo]

very beautiful, thanks @neph93  and have a good time in the ‚south‘

[endo]

Hey, this just to let you know that my son and I had a safe return home. It really was a wonderful trip: more than 6000 km in 15 days, 14 nights of which we spent only 4 on campgrounds and all others in pure nature, easy with a camping bus in scandinavia. Highlights were the night under a clear sky and stars on Preikestolen, meeting Reuben and Ingrid in Bodø, cruising the Lofoten and adjacent isles, and reaching the Nordkapp. But now we are also happy to be back home. Memories will stay. Thanks for accompanying us.