{"id":1259,"date":"2009-08-20T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:56:53","slug":"kjaereng-2005-canada-pa-tvers-med-lars-monsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"(Kjaereng 2005) Canada P\u00e5 Tvers med Lars Monsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sami-Nor\u00adwe\u00adgian adven\u00adtur\u00ader Lars Mors\u00aden trav\u00adels from Alas\u00adka to Labrador by dog sled, canoe, skis, and on foot. The route he takes cross\u00ades noth\u00ading but tun\u00addra, taiga, and bore\u00adal for\u00adest.&nbsp;That kind of adven\u00adture is known as \u201cthru-hik\u00ading\u201d, and this is one of the most extreme exam\u00adples of it.&nbsp;The jour\u00adney took two years and sev\u00aden months.&nbsp;There are occa\u00adsion\u00adal stops in out\u00adposts like Arc\u00adtic Red Riv\u00ader, Churchill, and Mis\u00adtassi\u00adni along the way, but most\u00adly he is alone with his dogs. He films him\u00adself with a hand\u00adheld, and talks to him\u00adself and the dogs (and the occa\u00adsion\u00adal bear), in untrans\u00adlat\u00aded Nor\u00adwe\u00adgian, but if you\u2019ve spent any time in this kind of envi\u00adron\u00adment, you nev\u00ader have trou\u00adble guess\u00ading what he\u2019s say\u00ading. This long doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary (280 min\u00adutes \u2014 it was split up into episodes for tv broad\u00adcast in Nor\u00adway) won\u2019t be every\u00adone\u2019s cup of tea, but I found it enter\u00adtain\u00ading.&nbsp;But I was enter\u00adtained by ani\u00admal behav\u00adiour, his bush savvy, and dif\u00adfer\u00adences in land\u00adscape and veg\u00ade\u00adta\u00adtion that oth\u00aders might not notice or care about.&nbsp;If you like see\u00ading the nit\u00adty-grit\u00adty of being in the bush, with\u00adout any extra\u00adne\u00adous nar\u00adra\u00adtion, then give it a&nbsp;try.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami-Nor\u00adwe\u00ad\u00adgian adven\u00adtur\u00ader Lars Mors\u00aden trav\u00adels from Alas\u00adka to Labrador by dog sled, canoe, skis, and on foot. The route he takes cross\u00ades noth\u00ading but tun\u00addra, taiga, and bore\u00adal for\u00adest.&nbsp;That kind of adven\u00adture is known as \u201cthru-hik\u00ading\u201d, and this is&nbsp;one&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1259\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-dr-viewing-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}