SupervagabondS au pays d'Israfil et Tarja
Notre premier voyage à deux canoës, à chacun son embarcation, à chacun ses méditations.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
When : 6/24/19
Length : 85 days
Length : 85 days
Total distance :
705km
Height difference :
+3658m /
-4314m
Alti min/max : 54m/258m
Guidebook created by SupervagabondS
on 10 Oct 2019
updated on 22 Jul 2020
updated on 22 Jul 2020
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Global view
Guidebook : Nav 4 / 10 Juillet (updated : 24 Dec 2019)
Section distance :
37.4km
Height difference for this section :
+153m /
-178m
Section Alti min/max : 113m/113m
Report : Nav 4 / 10 Juillet (updated : 24 Dec 2019)
We know that there are five dam portages ahead of us and that there will be none before the end of July.
We have to descend the entire Hartola river, already borrowed in 2017.
We have to descend the entire Hartola river, already borrowed in 2017.
The drone reveals all the dwellings which are also represented on the GPS but at our level in the river, the feeling of crossing a populated area remains imperceptible.
We will do three portages during the first day and the other two during the next navigation.
Your job is also to prevent the canoes from hitting each other and tearing off the awning buttons, while I make images with the drone.
Your willful carelessness does not hesitate to pass in front when rapids appear.
You go inside, you lead your boat and nothing can convince you to do otherwise.
I sometimes have the feeling of following you and it's so new to me that it feels like rejuvenating.
Your burns are serious and a majority of people would not have continued. The dialogue that exists between us lets me know that it was you who made the decision to continue.
My responsibility as a father was not to overprotect you but to make you understand the risks and possible disadvantages of your choice. Only you know what you can handle.
My responsibility as a father was not to overprotect you but to make you understand the risks and possible disadvantages of your choice. Only you know what you can handle.
And even if I felt burdened with the guilt of continuing, there was nothing to keep you from wanting to paddle and take all this pleasure in sailing.
Very quickly you started to discover your abilities because you had to load, unload, carry, manage, consider and assume your own decisions, as well as your own way of doing things.
This path is hell, because it is full of strains that have nothing to do on a portage path.
I had not even mentally considered having to pull Amélie's canoe, but ultimately it is I who find myself having to make double efforts, I see there a mental and physical challenge that suits me perfectly and which reassures me about the carelessness that exists within our duo.
I had not even mentally considered having to pull Amélie's canoe, but ultimately it is I who find myself having to make double efforts, I see there a mental and physical challenge that suits me perfectly and which reassures me about the carelessness that exists within our duo.
Even yourself, you did not suspect the pleasure that you were going to live by accomplishing these days of efforts, which also pass through meditation.
You forget your burns more than I do.
You forget your burns more than I do.
You discover the satisfaction of which I have spoken to you since we have been traveling, the self-imposed satisfaction, because the body has so much eructated that the mind can no longer denigrate.
To wear is to consider the lightness of the water.
Wear it is the moment to explain to you all that it seems to me should not carry around too much!
Sometimes I wonder if we manage to live in the first degree ... But in a country where it can be so cold, that is an understatement !
Sometimes I wonder if we manage to live in the first degree ... But in a country where it can be so cold, that is an understatement !
I have always maintained in you the idea that everything was possible because becoming your father in this way, I hadn't even imagined it.
But we got there because it was only us who decided to keep going.
But we got there because it was only us who decided to keep going.
You help me with all your strength and for your age, she is impressive. You discovered during this trip that you were able to carry the tent bag which weighs 30 kilos, and you were the first astonished !
The carrying paths of this portion are detrimental to the pleasure of carrying.
The worst obstacles are chained over very short distances and yet it is only a question of crossing small dams.
The worst obstacles are chained over very short distances and yet it is only a question of crossing small dams.
But nothing is suitable, so our frustration denounces the obvious things that are put in place to disgust people to pass by here! It is 11 p.m. and our sailing days always start around 8:30 a.m.
We are obliged to unload everything to carry out the porting because the obstacles do not allow us to pass with the carts and the paths intended to carry are impassable .... While these are compulsory and official porting routes.
We recover the river after three successive portages, midnight approaches but our pleasure of the moment is held on the inexhaustible light.
We take the time to take pictures because the light is worth it and the still water reflects.
- Amélie, do you want us to sail all night? How do you feel?
- Oh yeah, it's going to be too classy!
- We’ve been sailing for 16 hours, are you sure?
- Yeah yeah, I'm sure, then if we continue like this we will arrive in Paijanne tomorrow morning!
- Yeah, but I'm tired of paddling for today! Then you do not worry about the logistics, but if we do not decide a bivouac during the 5 kilometers which follow, we will be obliged to continue until Paijanne to find a bivouac and it will become too long to reach, it still remains more than 50 kilometers. Stop believing that we are going to do 100 kilometers today, it was not planned and it is time to stop.
- Yeah, okay, but you're getting old!
- This is not the question, it is me who manages this kind of things and I no longer have the age to respond to your provocation too easy!
- Yeah, come on boy, we're going to find a bivouac!
- Old man, you still can't get past it when you race while paddling!
- Pfffff, I knew you were going to tell me that!
- On the way, I'm hungry for sleep too.
- Yeah, too.
- Oh yeah, it's going to be too classy!
- We’ve been sailing for 16 hours, are you sure?
- Yeah yeah, I'm sure, then if we continue like this we will arrive in Paijanne tomorrow morning!
- Yeah, but I'm tired of paddling for today! Then you do not worry about the logistics, but if we do not decide a bivouac during the 5 kilometers which follow, we will be obliged to continue until Paijanne to find a bivouac and it will become too long to reach, it still remains more than 50 kilometers. Stop believing that we are going to do 100 kilometers today, it was not planned and it is time to stop.
- Yeah, okay, but you're getting old!
- This is not the question, it is me who manages this kind of things and I no longer have the age to respond to your provocation too easy!
- Yeah, come on boy, we're going to find a bivouac!
- Old man, you still can't get past it when you race while paddling!
- Pfffff, I knew you were going to tell me that!
- On the way, I'm hungry for sleep too.
- Yeah, too.
The day ends just before entering a lake that I don't want to cross. The idea of a good soup in the tent tortures me with envy, so I convey to you this irresistible feeling that you adopt without flinching !
The tent is pitched not far from a building at the end of the end, a sort of peninsula.
Of course, before landing there we went to find all the indications that suggested that it was possible to settle here.
The place is certainly used on occasion, but we only need to stay there for one day, with all due respect.
The tent is placed fifty meters behind the building and it was the flatness of the perfectly shaded terrain that prompted us to act like real vagrants.
It may also be a way to challenge the kindness of people who might dislodge us!
Finns are such peaceful people that they are perfectly capable of tolerating this just for a day.
Finns are such peaceful people that they are perfectly capable of tolerating this just for a day.
The place is so last that you could find that I did not hesitate.