The day didn’t turn out exactly like we expected. Yesterday Terje started to feel some discomfort in one of his knees. During today’s two first stretches the pain increased. By lunchtime, after 5 stretches, the pain was so bad that Terje couldn’t walk. Christian dug into the first-aid kit, and found Voltaren and Paralgin Forte. After 20 minutes the pain was still bad enough that Terje wanted to stop.

Then Christian took over one of Terje’s pulks. He struggled like an animal in difficult conditions and deep snow with the three pulks. Behind him Terje pulled the one pulk he had left. After six stretches it was again flat enough for Terje to pull both his pulks alone, but this only lasted for a little over one stretch before the uphill terrain was back. Again Christian took over one pulk for Terje. This time Terje had to call full stop after 20 minutes, since he was in too much pain to pull even one of the pulks, and we set up camp.

We are now discussing alternatives. The plan is that Terje will take a very high dose of Voltaren as an acute treatment, and we’ll see how it looks tomorrow.

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