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Friday, August 14

Javri fire - 5 day's weather in one

Later start today but found more bog. Today’s aim was to get to the finish point and learn more about the area we were walking through even if this involved sinking knee deep in mud just to collect a few amazing cloudberries. We did a bit of navigation on top of a hill taking in the amazing view in the sun. As we walked off the hill it all changed in seconds: it had gone from glorious sun shine to driving hail making us resort to our group shelter after 10 exciting minutes of hammering ice it stopped as suddenly as it started and was back to sun again. On the Finnmarksvidda we seem to have experienced every type of weather imaginable other than snow. After a brief unplanned detour due to coming across multiple paths rather than the one on the map, we reached the road and got in to camp. Today was another very good day, unfortunately this will be our last day of real expeditioning as tomorrow we will be going to Kautokeino to learn more about the Sami.

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