norway – The Paddler ezine

Sea kayaking Grebbestad and the Fjällbacka Archipelago in West Sweden

November 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Facing Waves host, Ulrika Larsson, is sea kayaking in Grebbestad and the Fjällbacka archipelago in West Sweden in late autumn, navigating through a maze of granite islands [...]

Norway 75 

September 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

Eight Royal Marine Commandos retrace the paddle strokes of their WWII comrades and their surgical strikes into Nazi occupied Norway during 1943 using similar tandem folding [...]

Cruising the lower Reisa in Norway

January 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Laurie Gullion The roaring cascade of Mollis Falls on the Reisa River above the Arctic Circle filled the crisp air with mist and a glorious rainbow. A family with young [...]

My first expedition

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

By sea kayaker… Markus Wiggen About the author… Markus is now seven-years old and lives at Senja, which is Norway’s second largest Island. This story is from two years [...]

Sea kayaking in the Arctic Circle – a teenage perspective…

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

At the start of this summer, Dave Rossetter, paddled with a group of young paddlers from Edinburgh in Norway. The important aspect though for him was the long term [...]

Sea kayaking: The Blue Time

August 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Sami People call it the ‘blue time’ – the period in winter when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon in northern areas of Scandinavia. Jeff Allen visits [...]

Welcome to the land of the Midnight Sun– Senja, Norway

March 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Frode and Wivian Wiggen talk us through a 365-day visual guide to Senja. www.senja365.com To explore Senja in a kayak, it is essential you paddle all of the seasons. Why? [...]

In search of space… Arctic Scandinavia

February 2, 2016 // 1 Comment

By Tim and Susannah Gent For more on canoeing and camping, purchase Tim’s book, ‘Canoe Camping’. Travel north above the Arctic Circle, along the road that [...]

Substantial TV: A Norwegian Summer Part 1

December 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Presented by: Sweet Protection Team Substantial spent another summer in the great land of the Midnight Sun. We were graced with perfect flows, amazing scenery, a great crew [...]

From Trondheim to the North Cape (part 1)

November 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

By Alice Courvoisier My friend Ruth had taken part in the 1995 Arctic Canoe race in Lapland and always felt like returning to kayak down the Finish-Swedish border rivers [...]