Soča 2024 - From summer to snow-covered peaks
21.11.2024Who would have thought that a single sentence spoken in the sunny Soča Valley in September 2024 would haunt me for an entire week of the course and longer? Andi and I were sitting on the balcony of the small apartment at Camp Toni after a day of an open course, reflecting on the day and discussing the next courses. We agreed that this year we were once again sitting in paradise, getting "Soča at its best". And then my sentence.
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!
What wonderful multiday weeks lie behind us this time. To be clear, snow remains the extreme and unprecedented exception, but the weather has once again provided excitement this spring 2024. From sleet to T-shirt...
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...
Getting started in whitewater with LWA
Can I do that? How can I do that? And preferably where? It's clear: not everyone wants to learn whitewater paddling and packrafting is a fascinating outdoor sport even without strong currents, waves, eddies and the typical roar of alpine rivers. We know that.
Anniversary season finale on the Nahe
After an adventurous and, for us, very special 2023 season - our 10th anniversary - our traditional season finale took place on September 23 + 24 at our Nahe base, the Nahe Alsenz Eck campsite. And wow, was it a great weekend!
A behind the scenes look at our packrafting adventures
