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Monday Jul 30, 2018 #
8 AM
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Improved a bit on yesterday, but still no good on the first hill. Maybe tomorrow (a reasonably solid walk today did seem to loosen things up a bit).
Did the second half of the Lofoten traverse today, finishing up at the end of the line in A. The impressively jagged and vertical mountains, and nearby bodies of water, featured again today, but an extra element added to the mix was beaches, with very white sand, and sometimes lots of people on the sand and in the water (it wasn't always easy to get parking spots). One had to keep reminding oneself that it is not normal for the temperature and humidity on an Arctic island to be doing an excellent imitation of Sydney in December, and that sometimes the area would go years without seeing a day anything like this.
The walk was up and over a mountain gap (probably 250m or so elevation) to get a view of another beach, reputedly the most spectacular of the lot. I settled for the view from above but plenty had gone down - in terms of its accessibility, I guess you could describe this as the Lofoten equivalent of Wineglass Bay. Definitely got a sweat up doing this walk (and realised why afterwards when I saw the dewpoint numbers).
I felt pretty tired at the end of the day - I think more because of the driving than anything else. You can never really relax on the roads here because of their narrowness; even the main highway is narrow enough in its western sections that one needs to move over for any oncoming campervans (plenty of those!)/trucks/buses.
Did the second half of the Lofoten traverse today, finishing up at the end of the line in A. The impressively jagged and vertical mountains, and nearby bodies of water, featured again today, but an extra element added to the mix was beaches, with very white sand, and sometimes lots of people on the sand and in the water (it wasn't always easy to get parking spots). One had to keep reminding oneself that it is not normal for the temperature and humidity on an Arctic island to be doing an excellent imitation of Sydney in December, and that sometimes the area would go years without seeing a day anything like this.
The walk was up and over a mountain gap (probably 250m or so elevation) to get a view of another beach, reputedly the most spectacular of the lot. I settled for the view from above but plenty had gone down - in terms of its accessibility, I guess you could describe this as the Lofoten equivalent of Wineglass Bay. Definitely got a sweat up doing this walk (and realised why afterwards when I saw the dewpoint numbers).
I felt pretty tired at the end of the day - I think more because of the driving than anything else. You can never really relax on the roads here because of their narrowness; even the main highway is narrow enough in its western sections that one needs to move over for any oncoming campervans (plenty of those!)/trucks/buses.