{"id":712,"date":"2018-10-24T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.land-water-blog.de\/?p=712"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T08:51:42","slug":"saisonabschluss-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.land-water-blog.de\/en\/saisonabschluss-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Our end of season 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a season that is now behind us - 2018 just rocked! The crowning finale in absolute amazing paddle weather was our season finale, which we held with more than 30 participants of our multi-day courses and expeditions at the Hunsr\u00fcck-Basecamp Nahem\u00fchle in Monzingen in mid-October. \"Celebrating\" was on my tongue while I was writing - yes, that feels right too. We celebrated the end of an incredibly sunny, adventurous and action-packed season, celebrated our LWA community and simply spent another weekend together. What did we do there? That's what I'm telling you now.<\/p>\n

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By the way: Also the LWA team took the chance to have (almost) all crew members together and met in advance. Sebastian's impressions of the team meeting the night before can be found here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Zeltwiese<\/p>\n

It starts on a Saturday in mid-October. Bright sunshine, almost 25 degrees Celsius. Yes, really, it feels like summer. The traditional chocolate buffet, where the LWA community meets around the LWA team, was placed in the shade of the yurt on \"our\" tent meadow near the Nahe.<\/p>\n

Nahe-Run: More than 30 colourful boats<\/h2>\n

Program item 1, after the greeting, will again be a Nahe-run this year. Once more on the water is a must-do. Since days we of the team are looking forward to it, painting again and again pictures before our inner eyes of all the colourful boats, which will then cavort on the Nahe. The picture that we get when we board the train at Monzingen station with more than 30 people, and especially the sight at the destination station in Norheim, when these 30 packed people step onto the small platform again, is simply beautiful for us. Joy and gratitude come up, about so many good-humoured participants who threw themselves into adventure with us this year, and now partly came so close from so far away to paddle together again. Wow!<\/p>\n

\"Aufbau<\/p>\n

\"Packrafts<\/p>\n

\"Doghammer
Flipflop density has increased significantly this season \ud83d\ude09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On foot we go to our entry point of the Nahe day courses. With sunshine (mostly) and rain, in the May-green and during midsummer, with small and large groups we have been here the whole season long. And now one last time for this season. But first we capture the Nahe bridge - what a picture - before we plunge into the remaining waves of the Nahe after this dry summer. And indeed, the pictures from our heads become reality and a huge, colourful ball of Packrafts of all kinds paddles comfortably down the Nahe. There is laughter, experiences are exchanged, own stories of the season are told. We are wonderfully slow on this autumnal ride.<\/p>\n

\"Nahe-Run<\/p>\n

Afterwards we board the train back to Monzingen in the tranquil health resort Bad M\u00fcnster am Stein, full of anticipation for the traditional Chili sin Carne, which Susanne prepared during our absence.<\/p>\n

\"Hunsr\u00fcck-Chili<\/p>\n

Campfire stories in the evening<\/h2>\n

It's getting crowded around the campfire, we find. Still the circle around the fire and the pot full of chili is big, later in the evening we will sit in two rows around it, exchange stories and listen to the lectures of Sebastian and Susanne.<\/p>\n

\"Vortr\u00e4ge<\/p>\n

Sebastian takes us on a virtual journey to Iceland, into the vastness and barrenness of the wild Highlands, through which the this year's expedition group <\/a> has fought itself.<\/p>\n

There has also been a premiere this evening: For the first time we will show the brand new Soca video with recordings from this year's courses, great impressions of the landscape and nature and lots of whitewater action.<\/p>\n

\"Lagerfeuerabend<\/p>\n

We don't want to withhold this feeling from you and invite you: Close your eyes, imagine you are on the camp meadow, around you outdoor enthusiastic packrafter, starry sky, you were just on the brook and now sit warmly packed with chili sin carne in your stomach and a drink in your hand around the crackling campfire and this movie starts:<\/p>\n