Preprations

All packed up and ready to walk 600 km. 🚶‍♀️

Quite happy with the total backpack weight. In the end, I had to add an extra T-shirt and shorts to the load as it seems that it will be +20 degrees Celsius next week in Sweden. It will be a sweaty walk. I planned to start this hike in early May as I wanted to walk in cooler weather and now it's summer temperatures. 😄

Total backpack weight with a full load of food for 4 to 5 days and 1,5 liters of water is 16,2 kg. Without food and water, the weight is 11,7 kg. I could trim down food and leave a few items at home to save about one or two kilograms of weight, but I've walked with this weight. It will be ok and if not, I'll just have to eat food from my pack quicker. 😄

My stamp book or the pilgrim passport for the trail also came at the last possible moment on Tuesday, the last day of this week when the post is delivered. I ordered the passport and trail patch on the 1st of April from Norway, but first they forgot to mail it and then my package with a total value of 10€ got caught by the Finnish customs and I had to pay a toll for it. 🙄

You collect stamps for the passport along the way as proof of walking the path and then in Trondheim at the Nidaros cathedral you will get a certificate of completing this world's northernmost pilgrimage route. It's as old a tradition as these pilgrim routes are.Read more