A swampy day

We woke up into a not so good weather and still lots of moskitoes. We had a healthy breakfast with muesli and dry milk, a good combo to think of for futures treks.

So we started this trek of 42km with in mind to go the furthest to be cool the next two days. We quickly discovered that the trek to Porjus will include a lot of swamps. Compare to the Kungsleden, there weren’t a lot of wooden planks to walk over swamps, so we had to walk into it an eventually make a path. It was quite a lot of work but still, we were walking at a good pace !

It was particular because one way or another, we followed the main road (for cars) and had to cross it twice (and once the next day). But the path was nice into a rich forest and small tracks, when there were not swamps. We were glad to see twice Western Capercaillies … except for the only one who really want to see them, sorry Antoine.

We also saw what's what left from a reindeer and that makes us remember we were into the territory of big predators such as bears, wolves, wolverines, artics foxes...

After a good 18km we discovered a small shelter that would protect us against the rain ! We decided to stop here, make a fire to dry our shoes and sleep there…Leggi altro