Nordland Sweden
submitted by Tyler Curtis.
After an epic few days and mid-summer nights in Trollfors we started on the creeking adventures. We headed toward the Norway/Sweden border in search of a few rarely paddled rivers, and perhaps a first descent or two. During our drive we caught a glimpse of a nice looking drop just off the road and after pulling over to check it out it looked good. We then referred to our trusty maps to find that a small dirt road ran near the river to the lake 4kms downstream to where the river emptied into it. Perfect. A short shuttle and a new adventure. Later we would learn from some research that this short creek was named ‘Umnas River’ or at least that is what we have named it.
This short little run turned out to be quite epic with a ton more whitewater and drop in elevation that we expected. There we nice slides (with chunky rock) and one of which located in the middle of the run was a three-stage 100 meter long beauty. We also enjoyed numerous small boofs, a few very tight and technical lines, an absolutely perfect twisting 8 meter drop, and the final drop was a sweet 6 meter waterfall. After a short walk back to the van we were packed up and on route into the snow covered mountains and our next creek…
Of course the next epic adventure will be posted soon so stay tuned.
