Pictures through the years

2003
Guides:
Ian Karl
Magnolia Vahey
David


  • Sunset over the fjord
  • The Torreys out on the fjord
  • The Torreys with Feigum Falls behind them
  • Sigfred doing the 4 Day Fjord and Mountain route in reverse (up at the pass)
  • Looking down the pass back toward Kroken
  • Ian out collecting stones
  • Melissa in the 17th of May parade
  • Home from gathering mushrooms
  • Mike and Dave at Heidi's birthday party
  • Dinner outside at the stone table


    • 2002
    Guides:
    Alan Thompson
    Jason Rich
    David


  • Thor takes to the high mountains for a ski
  • Joined by his mother and little brother - Bogga and Aril
  • Look what came with the groceries - Aril
  • Beautiful kayak on fjord shot - Bob, Marla and Brad Cummings
  • Grizzled father and sleeping son - David and Aril
  • Alan paddling on the fjord
  • Alan setting up for a rescue clinic
  • Alan teaching rescues
  • Marrying off a kayak guide - Willow Sare weds Kevin
  • Our other 2 guides from 2000 wed - Erin and Noah
  • Yngveig and company on the fjord
  • Ingrid and Thor on a camping trip up the Kroken valley
  • Another lettuce and spinach bed goes in
  • Three kayak guides and one kid all eating spaghetti
  • Justina and Piotr not picking raspberries
  • Margit and Thorie
  • Anna Maria and Heidi after a hard night on the farm
  • Ma and Pa work on the house
  • Hans Deiter relaxing with a German øl
  • Anna Maria
  • Work on the boathouse begins
  • Slateless boathouse in the mist
  • Same house from even higher up
  • Nice fall shot of the guest house
  • Thor with Kat-made dragon, Kat and Meghan behind
  • Meghan and Kat in barn with rabbits
  • Meghan working away in the barn
  • Meghan, Kat and Thor cranking in the kitchen
  • Kat on a hot slate roof


    • 2001
    Guides:
    Adam Greeson
    Ian Karl
    David

  • Adam and Ian doing the Ridgewalk
  • David up on the Ridgewalk
  • Ian working in the raspberry patch
  • Adam's big Basic Safety Clinic
  • Ian on Ridgewalk with the Hurrungane behind him
  • Adam and his sidekick
  • Adam, David and Ian up on the roof
  • Adam and Ian still on the roof
  • Still more roof work
  • Same summer, same guys, new roof new continent. Ian and David travel back to the US to find a new roof to fix.
  • Back in Norway the berry pickers gather.
  • Auntie Mary and her 2 nephews
  • David and Ian juggle while Maggie braves the flying pins
  • Mary and David haul away the old roof
  • Thor and Aril sleep despite the ruckus.
  • Adam and Ian even juggle WHILE they are kayaking
  • The last supper - Adam, Ian and Maggie hit the road the next day
  • David is still in the mountains
  • Rivenosi at winter solstice


    • 2000
    Guides:
    Noah Hamm
    Erin Shafto
    Willow/Sarah
    David

  • Paul and Sue photo - the road from Skjolden to Kroken
  • Paul and Sue photo - the road from Ornes to Kroken
  • Paul and Sue photo - kayaking to Gaupne
  • Thori jamming in the kitchen
  • David driving hay (my old tractor is as old as I am)
  • Fun in the hot tub at the college party
  • Same kids, same hot tub
  • Same party, same tub later that night
  • Willow/Sarah up at Åsete
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 1
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 2
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 3
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 4
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 5
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 6
  • Erin's paddle float sequence take 7
  • Noah setting up for a Basic Safety Course
  • Gunnhild and colleague excavate a "belt-stone" thought to date back to 300-500 A.D.
  • My mama in the high mountains
  • Myself in the high mountains
  • Erin and her natural dyed wool
  • Bogga painting the boathouse
  • Willow/Sarah splitting wood at Åsete
  • My crazy mama at Åsete - birthday tour
  • Thor at Åsete


    • 1999
    Guides:
    Willow/Sarah
    David

  • David and Thori on a spring ski tour
  • Bogga on the same spring ski trip
  • David and Thori - D juggling - same ski trip
  • Willow/Sarah by the Feigum River
  • Ready to leave on a 4-day trip
  • Spaghetti dinner at Kvalen
  • Rowdy herd of Texans up above the treeline
  • Texans jumping over roaring river
  • Nothing left but the descent
  • Willow-Sare and Kim lunch by the banks of the Feigum River
  • Kim gets unusually good service out of her guide
  • Not only carried, but entertained en route
  • Willow-Sare out with the goats
  • Willow-Sare and the kids from Jostedal school
  • Bogga up near Nosestølen
  • Sean at Nosestølen
  • Sean, David, Thori and the goats
  • Svein down on the farm
  • Bogga, Ole Martin and Pirker
  • From France, Germany and Britain we paddle
  • We set up 3 tents with a tarp in the middle one rainy day in the mountains
  • Close up of our tent city
  • Down to Sippelhaug
  • Nice hat, mon ami
  • Willow/Sare in the mountains with the goats
  • Bogga and David celebrate a joint 40 - Sarah shows us some of dinner
  • David, Thori and the goats
  • Sarah and Thori bonding
  • Sandra and Mara picked strawberries and raspberries and were generally fun to have around
  • Bogga in a crevasse up at Nigard's glacier
  • Bogga and David across from Nigard's glacier
  • Bogga glaciating
  • David's fortieth birthday
  • David and Thor on a fall trip in the high mountains
  • Bogga on the same trip
  • Bogga and Thor that trip
  • David and a snoozing son towards the end of the day
  • Blueberry picking trip with the whole family
  • New Year's Eve - last day of 1999 - in the new wood heated hot tub
  • Midnight!!!!!


    • 1998
    Guides:
    Erin Shafto
    David

  • Erin on her way up the front side of Rivenosi
  • Dawn training Pirker not to be afraid of the water
  • Culture Days in Skjolden
  • Dawn and Tom Blain unloading boats in Skjolden
  • Sylvia from Latvia picking raspberries
  • Dawn and Thori cuddling
  • Erin, Dawn, Amanda and Chris


    • 1997
    Guides:
    Erin Shafto
    David

  • One kayak paddler on the ice
  • Same paddler same ice
  • Spring cleaning
  • Sun setting on our house
  • Erin out standing in her field
  • Mary and Kevin in Bergen
  • Sunset over the glacier
  • Onkel Jan at the Urnes stave church
  • Ida by the north portal of the Urnes stave church
  • Debbie Himpelman celebrates her birthday
  • Mary, Kevin and Debbie raking hay
  • Mary, Kevin and Debbie working in the hot sun
  • Bogga (with Thor in her belly), Ida and Heidi at Kinsedal ready to paddle


    • 1996
    Guide:
    David

  • Heidi planting our strawberries
  • The first kayaks arrive
  • New kayaks in the moonlight
  • 7 year old Heidi take her first solo paddle
  • Bogga and David at Nosestølen with food for the sheep


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