Club social, potluck and presentation - Kayaking the Lofoten Islands

Thursday, January 22nd 2026 - Regular monthly meeting. Socialization from 6 - 6:30, Potluck 6:30 - 7:00, Presentation 7:00.

All interested persons welcome to attend. Meeting at Seaman’s Lodge in Pioneer Park, 427 Nimrod Street, Nevada City.

Presentation - Kayaking the Lofoten Islands An adventure Presentation by KIM GRANDFIELD

After earning a degree in Nuclear Engineering prior to a 5-year career with General Electric in 1975, Kim Grandfield left to pursue his outdoor passions and start Sunrise Mountain Sports in downtown Liver more. During his time with the store, he taught out door skills classes in mountaineering, crevasse res cue, and igloo building for more than 23 years. He is certified at the highest level as a sea kayak instructor in the American Canoe Association, has attained the highest level of sea kayaking certification in the British Canoe Union, and for nine years operated a kayak concession on Lake Del Valle, After 42 years, Kim retired from his outdoor store in 2017 and has since participated in rock climbing, mountaineering, back country skiing, and kayak expeditions around the world including Greenland and Antarctica. Kim’s 2024 kayaking expedition was a 14 day, 208 mile journey in Northern Norway with 2 fellow kayakers. About 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle along Norway’s coast lies a rugged chain of islands, the Lofoten Islands, which protrude into the Atlantic Ocean like a peninsula. By all appearances The Lofoten Islands is a spectacular mountain range about half submerged in the north Atlantic with little flat ground anywhere in sight. At the January meeting Kim will be presenting images and highlights from his 2024 Lofoten Kayak Expedition.