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Sarek National Park Sept 2024.MLD Trailstar ..Day 1

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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

Norway Trollheimen Day 1 & 2 Sept 2023

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So in Sept 2023 we did a trip to Norway,sadly just before they had the worse storms for 25 yrs,our journey there hampered as 2 train lines had been swept away and two main highways destroyed  But we did get there in the end,securing some fuel for our stoves,from the local petrol station,on the short walk from the station to the hotel Id arranged a taxi to drive us out to the start,he was a retired farmer and he told us it had started raining in June and there had not been one day when it had not rained since,then they had huge storms the biggest for 20 + yrs...  we wonder what lay ahead of us  Gjevilvasshytta was our start point and it was good to be on the way,with a dry start and 8 days food stored away in our packs The dry start didnt last but the rain wasnt too heavy   We dropped our heavy sacks,after lunch, and we took a diversion and climbed up to the summit of Blahoa 1672m  No views but it did clear a little on our way back down Shouldering our packs,we left behind the day walke