With the Summer ending and Jesper going to Boston for the next semester, we decided what other way to say “see ya’ soon” then going for a short packrafting trip. So in the beginning of August, we sat out on the 3 hour drive from Copenhagen towards the Swedish stream Krokån just east of Halmstadt to spend our weekend there. In the car we had all the necessary equipment for a short packrafting trip: Our packrafts, paddles, PDFs, wet suits and backpacks with a tent, sleeping bags and food for two days.
From what we could gather of information on the web, Krokån has been a playground for kayakers for a long time with especially Flammafaldet, three smaller consecutive rapids, drawing some attention. Though there was not much information out there on common places to start and the duration of such a trip. Actually, you will have a hard time locating the stream on Google Maps. Luckily, we found much inspiration from Urban Packrafter‘s site (it’s pretty cool – you should definitely check it out).
Wanting to do a loop, we parked the car downstream of Krokån in the town Knäred and hiked for 3-4 hours close to the town on Egernahult. The forest scenery was beautiful even though we stayed on the main road for most of the trip. Just before we reached Egernahult, we left the road and started bushwacking. To our surprise we soon heard the loud thunders of roaring rapids.