This years trip was to Sarek National Park in the far North of Sweden an,area protected with World heritage status.With mountains over 2000m and 100 glaciers,a place of both long deep narrow valleys,but also wide flat high ones.Both of which are criss crossed with wild rivers and glacier fed Lakes all joined together by miles of high alpine tundra and only 2 bridges in the park It took us a full day of flights and trains and taxis to get to Lulea where we met up with Christie Crowler who had just finished her walk,we were to meet Matt Holland,who was going to join us,but the bad weather and the big storm had him change his plans Hotel was ok and close to the train staition,which we needed in the morning,so after grabbing our fuel off Christie (fanks again) we went to our room and got everything packed away We then all met up and went for tea as Chrissie told us of the storm they had caught at the end of her walk,she bumped into Dale too while out hiking Th...
As ive done on previous yrs,heres a short write up on 2024,s Wild camps.This years have taken place at home in the Lake District,in Scotland and Northern Sweden The first took place just off the shoulder of Yoke after walking around the Kentmere Horse shoe walk on the 13th Jan Next was a camp on the back shoulder of Esk pike on the 10th of Feb Followed by a camp on the end Caw on the 8th of March My new Xmid2Pro arrived and i took it across the Coniston fells with a camp on Grey Frair summit on the 20th March 5Th of May and a camp on the Calf summit after collecting a few peaks with a fellow wild camper The above and 2 below pics were taken on Sand hill as we went out to catch the Aurora display,i got a message come through and another wild camper joined us,the best display i have ever seen in the UK Scotlands Glenshee Munros on the 25th and 26th of May saw us collecting peaks both sides of the Glenshee pass with a camp on either side to match Maggie joined me on...
Day 2 started dry,there had been some overnight rain,but unfortunately no clear skies.We were away for 8 am with what looked like on the map some wet ground to cover The ground was exceedingly wet as made our way across the pathless ground,but full of colur,in all the mosses and linchens.All sat under a grey sky.But we did get to spot some herds of deer as we made our way across too the river,we needed to cross This is where i crossed it was very nearly leg deep for the last two steps ! but not too fast or cold,well not icey cold at least.As soon as id crossed i stripped of my trousers and socks and wrung them out Old Sami shelter I set off a bit quicker and soon had the heat back in my legs and socks soon started to dry out,above my brother who choose to cross further up stream,too quick looking for my liking Once we had warmed up some we stopped for lunch on a higher bump in the land,a few deer looked up and just carried on past t...
Brill photos and a fantastic snow drift! Chrissie
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