The old man har planned a canoe trip to the Mountain Plateau Hardangervidda this summer, but because of the weather forecast I har to wait until 23. July before I could head off. There were no good camp sites at the Trondsbu parking lot, so I har to park next to a garbage container. This was perhaps a forewarning for the whole trip. When I was to go to sleep, I discovered that I had forgotten at home the inflatable Exped Down mat. I had a few isopor mats, but they were to thin and hard for me to get a good sleep. The next day opened with fog, rain and strong wind, so I decided to go back to Oslo to fetch the mat. More than four hours each way. As soon as I came down the Halling Valley the weather turned to summer. I was tired during the driving, so my car instructed me to get some sleep. The next day back to Hardangervida. The weather had improved, so I looked more optimistically at the paddling, with a suitable wind from the north east. As you can see from the photos, I h...