The North Continues…
submitted by Tyler Curtis
After completing a random pit stop and potential first descent of the Umnas River, our next stop was Lake Røssvatn and take-out for the Krutaa River. Our camp location turned out to be the most epic camp location I have seen in a long while. The perfect place to spend July 1st Canada Day! We were surrounded by snow-covered mountains, an endless rock pebbled shoreline on a massive lake, a large supply of dry drift wood for a campfire, and presented with continuous 24 hours of daylight. Epic and not a place we wanted to leave!
We woke to another day of sunshine and a perfect water level for the Krutaa River. This river is one that I have spoken about with the Suomi (Finland) paddlers a number of times and I was going to add another river to my ever-growing list of personal descents. As we were sliding into the river for an amazing section of boofs, slides, and monster holes to plug, I couldn’t help but take a moment to reflect on the fact that there is nothing else in the world I would rather be doing than living the life that I am!
The water was clean and clear and every rapid a masterpiece. It is one of the rivers that required you to continually take a look back upstream after running a rapid and check it out, smile, and record the memory. We could paddle ourselves all the way into the lake to finish the river and start taking about how sick the river was and what we would paddle next.
