Season finale of the LWA Community 2025
02.10.2025It had been raining for days when we arrived at the site and the puddles were still there, but the weather cleared just in time for the 2025 season finale and in the evening, as the pizzas were roasting in the stone oven, we were bathed in the evening sun. That, together with a fun amount of water in the river Nahe, was the perfect recipe for a successful event.
Highlights of the 2024 multiday season
Ich bin auch nach mehr als 10 Jahren nicht ganz sicher, woran es genau liegt – aber es sind neben den Expeditionen immer wieder die Multiday-Kurse und -Touren, bei denen Erinnerungen und Momente am intensivsten bleiben. Vielleicht ist es der…
Soča 2024 - From summer to snow-covered peaks
Wer hätte gedacht, dass mich ein einziger Satz, ausgesprochen im sonnigen Soča-Tal im September 2024 eine ganze Kurswoche und länger verfolgen würde? Andi und ich saßen nach einem Kurstag eines offenen Kurses auf dem Balkon des kleinen Apartments auf Camp…
LWA Community season finale 2024
On this last Saturday in September, it feels like we're coming home. So many people here that we know and so much joy at the start. And so much water, because on this morning, the 28....
Welcome to Elfenland - Expedition Tour Arctic Circle 2024
When the first pictures of this long-planned, adversity-ridden and ultimately magical tour appeared in the LWA Messenger, Cora and I probably thought the same thing: "Wow, they were traveling in elf-land". I myself have just been through...
Expedition Tour Norway 2024
When someone asks me where my home is, there is no simple answer. There are a few places in the world where I feel reliably at home and Trondheim is one of them. So many beautiful tours already...
Albania 2024 - „Coming back to Albania?“
It's not easy to describe our Albania whitewater tour - it's totally different every time. We actually had no broken paddles in 2024 - and no lost luggage. No brown floods awaited us this year with...
Four seasons in the Hunsrück 2024 - Multiday at its best!
Was für wunderschöne Multiday-Wochen liegen dieses Mal hinter uns. Um es vorweg zu nehmen, Schnee bleibt die extreme und bisher einmalige Ausnahme, aber dennoch hat das Wetter auch in diesem Frühjahr 2024 wieder für Spannung gesorgt. Von eisigem Graupel bis…
BayerWald 2024 - Was it summer already?
We were prepared for everything: Sleet from the side, snow on the tents, sub-zero temperatures at the start, very high water levels, water levels that were almost too low. After all, we had already experienced all of this in the three previous trips on this extraordinary tour. But...
Albania 2023 - When the Osum turned to cocoa
June 2023, the Guide Messenger channel to the back office. Sebastian has just written about the onset of snowfall in Norway. Johannes from Albania replies with just this sentence: "There's a thunderstorm here and the Osum has just turned to cocoa". The beautiful and the dangerous thing about...
Almost Alaska - Expedition Canada 2023
On glacier rivers through bear country 5 years and two months after Jannis and Peter had this idea, I look at the Donjek Glacier for the first time in my life, see the furrows in the ice, including broken off pieces of ice that fall into the gray...
A behind the scenes look at our packrafting adventures
