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
The next day we picked up our ( on the go breakfast,from hotel) and were on the train for 6 am arriving hours later at Gallivare....from there it was an interesting at times,bus drive for a few hours too RitsemBut we did stop at a very nice cafe at Kebnats (one of the boats lands and departs from here) strongly recommend the cakes here
We got dropped off just before Ritsem and used Fiskfly.g.se for our short and quick flight over the lake ,think its called Akkajaure
I was checking boat times and noticed the helicopter option for crossing from Ritsem too Akkastugorna,which was only a tenner ish more so we booked that,it also was only 7-10 mins fly time too,great experince and view
More weight than i would have liked but included camera equipment 9 days food and fuel and battery,but my HMG Windrider carries it so well
So 1-30 pm 31st August we set off on the 8 night trip planned for this area,praying that the storms that had battered others and Matt and Christie had finished there say
Pictures,even sound can not convey how overpowering the sound and sight of this Vuojatadno river was as it thundered and battered its way along...a grand thing to be able to feel hear and witness
Glad that this one was bridged !
I took the decision that we would take the river crossing and not the bridge near Gisuris so we headed for the low coll you can see just left of centre,in the pic below
The colours just in the grasses and marshes were so very many different shades of yellow,brown and orange
It was 4-30pm by the time we reached close to the top of this coll and the map read wetter ground ahead,with some good ground to camp on and two long days of traveling,we did not pass it by and made camp
Early in a longer trip always gives more choice of evening meal,as the trip goes on a good hunger covers this lack of choice as there all tasty meals,to me.......Same as past years i used Basecamp foods as my supplier
Having done this game a long while i have a nice choice of shelters too choose from i took my trusted Trailstar again,been using one since 2011 and love its storm worthiness and simplicity,nothing to break
The day had been dry not much wind and a temp of 13c too 8c overnight
Thanks for looking ....Safe travels Peter
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