“Hi, do you want to come on a mini-adventure? I can’t guarantee anything, but it will probably be quite fun." Mariann Saether simply could not say no when world-class kayaker Rowan James asked her to join in a rainy-day adventure last summer to the north of Norway, that Mecca of whitewater rivers called Trofors. A few hours later, she found herself in an eddy, trying to swallow those words. She had just pitoned her kayak after misreading Rowan’s frantic hand signals. “In my head, I was already picking up my kids from kindergarten,” she admitted. “But what a river!” Gryteselva is one of the main tributaries flowing into the largest river in Nordland. It runs when absolutely everything else is flooding—and even then, it could use a bit more water!…
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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025