BKE 2 BOAT

In the summer of 2020, Olaf Obsommer and Jens Klatt set off to another Bike2Boat trip through the Alps, accompanied by Adrian Mattern and Bren Orton. Traveling 800 kilometers by bicycle while towing your body weight in gear isn’t for everyone. But sometimes, it takes a little suffering to look past the paddling and remind us of the joy to be found in the journey.

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On a tour of this kind, it helps to be overly optimistic: 1) The mosquitoes are gone. 2) After the heat, it has cooled down. 3) There will be additional water for the waterfalls tomorrow, and levels have been low anyway. The reality I try to suppress: It is shortly after midnight, I lie huddled in my sleeping bag, and water runs down my face as if I am paddling whitewater. The thunderstorm is now passing over us for the third time. Like a drunkard, it staggers from valley to valley, vomiting its effusions over us. Hours ago, we were happy to have found a roof. Now we dream of walls because the rain lashes horizontally, soaking us as we all pretend to sleep. By bike, we’ve been pulling our kayaks…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, Winter 2020

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