WANDERING THE SWEDISH LAPLANDS DAY 2..MLD TRAILSTAR

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The wind stayed all night and seemed even stronger in the morning,with the odd drop of rain and what sounded like sleet.Brew and breakfast to get the body started,while still in my quilt 


As we entered the valley properly we met the wind head on a nice 20 gusting 25-30 mph wind helped push in the wet and sleet showers as they flew into and past us 


There is plenty of good camping in the valley but no shelter from any wind ,so was good decision not to enter it last night 


Ballinriehppijokein glacier in the rear left of above pic 















It was a great high valley too pass through but the wind and cold showers,peppered with sleet,did take the shine out of it a little,id seen a shelter on the map so we decided to have an early dinner there,it was small but wind tight

Dare not think how hot it could get if you did have fuel fire up the small wood burner in there 





You can see the nice looking valley we went down in the above picture





Always happy and smiley when hes munching 



Sadly leaving the hut,back into the cold day i made a huge boo boo with my Navigation,but only by 160 degrees !






The valley looked so nice and inviting to start !  Oh so wrong,after much hard work on rough loose steep wet ground,deploying root hand work and both poles,i thought i will just check on where we were......yep very much in the wrong valley and in the wrong direction !





So no more pics as it was just so much hard work to travel down as it got steeper,sometimes we were along the river stone too boulder then we had to go up again ...repeat repeat



After lots of cursing and grumbling we finally made it back to the track i was trying  hard to avoid..the Kungsledden.






We saw a few folk heading North and so after gaining a few more miles along the now very wet Kungsledden we found a nice spot to camp up


Id remembered James Boulters trip near here and searched out his biggish river crossing,but that was for tomorrow,but did put us back on course again


You can see it here to the left of the shot

















Tea was a favorite of mine "Wilderness stew" made by Bla bland and supplied by the lovely folk at Basecamp foods 


We found another great pitch this one looking over the lakes Ahpparjavri and Miesakjavri and the rain finally stopped too







Tougher and longer day than it needed to be,due to my crap navigation (would have helped if id just done it rather pull my heas further under my hood)


Thanks for looking ....Safe travels Peter

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