Just returned from a Norwegian Holiday:
15 days of food on our backs on a selfsupporting 15-day-hike in the mountains.
Below our greeting-card as sent to friends; home-made from own pictures:
We also learned something: This year I had to leave my car at our starting point in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. As there was nobody nearby to inform about our plans, unfortunately someone started to worry. After 2 weeks he or she informed the police, who started a telephone-search in Holland. Even Hans Heupink got involved (see his weblog)
Direct motive was obviously the fact some tourists had accidents or died in the mountains this year, causing the Norwegians to be alert. Something to be praised of course.
How I can prevent this to happen during next year, shall be a point of study: whom in this empty country could I inform about our plans?
But I concluded that it is certainly advisable, as with seakayaking, to leave a "float-plan" somewhere. Not that I am afraid, looking at the fact we could look after ourselves during the last 15 years without car (thus nobody knowing about us), but for occasions like happened this year and to prevent unnecessary activities.