bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Multi post sequence incoming

I walked a very small part of Kungsleden, with 1 friend, a hiking trail in northern sweden. Kungsleden is a 440 km (270 mi) long trail that is in northern sweden, around the place where finland, norway and sweden all meet their borders. I traveled 135 km, measured in straight lines from point to point, not including any verticality changes. I walked from the north tip of the route (Abisko) to the Nikkaluokta village, and also climbed the Kebnekaise mountain (a fairly easy mountain, 2.1km high, to climb assuming you are fit. no special gear required besides multilayer winter clothes, using hands to occasionally to pull yourself up some edges, scrambling i believe is the term). The entire hike walking part itself took 8 full days.

On june 12 i went to sweden by overnight cruise boat. June 13, took the train from stockholm to northern sweden, the north end of the Kungsleden. Disembark train on june 14 midday, walk to first destination. Quite a few amazing sights already, all within the Abisko National park, so much to see and take in, perfect weather, very non-existant drizzle. Cool rapids, walking in a mountain valley in a tundra.

Next day, reach end of Abisko national park. In the park, you could see a group of people every 10-20 minutes of walking, after the park edge, almost no people. The time was just before the season in Kungsleden opened, so roughly every ~~20 km there are manned houses on the trail, but they only are manned during the season (which started about now i believe).

After the 2nd day, we found that the upcoming mountain pass we impassable probably - 4 individuals had come back, saying that it become too impassable due to mountain glaciers melting into hard to cross rapids. Since our last 1 km that day took about 2.5 hours to walk, including my friend falling through an ice bridge that was 2-meters suspended above a fast rapid-river below (its fine, he fell elbow deep with legs dangling below lmfao). we figured that news was very bad. (Later in Kiruna we found a person who had done the mountain pass in question about 2 days after, coming from the other side.) So, we could've passed it after spending a day or 2 waiting, but we decided to take an alternate route. The alterante route, Vistas Valley, was suppposedly significantly less traveled, as we found out later. The alternate route went from one very tiny Sami village, with the closest access being a 33+km long great valley (on foot or helicopter access only), to another not so small (300 people) village at the other end of the valley. This featured a ton of different biomes, almost never getting boring throughout, despite being swamp hell 50% of in that valley. Its like a level designer had completely changed up the flavor every 1 - 3 km with another twist. Several rapids had to be crossed that were knee+ deep, with strong water rapids splashing to waist high or higher while crossing the near 0C water rapids. I lost one of my sandals doing one of the crazy rapid crossings, which was my Army sandal. It was a sentimentally important sandal, gotten for free (just a year of labor in the army!). The sandals've gone through some SERIOUS ass and hell with me through the 5+ years, thousand+ km of extreme conditions walked with em.

Through out the valleys, we saw probably over a 100+ reindeer. They are quite fearful creatures, the same as deer, but i think theyre a bit bigger? Plus they have way more antlers. They seem quite dumb, they will often sprint past you closer than 50 meters, and youll meet them just around a hilltop and boom, 10 reindeer, 20 meters in front of you. Very similar behaviour to regular deer, but even more avoidant, but simultaneously stay a closer minimum distance of safety from humans. I think they are used to reindeer herders (sami). I say this with my short experience.

All trees in the pictures are (much) smaller than 10 meters. No face pictures cause never public post face pictures. The pre-last picture is the nameless sami(?) village, taken from on top a hill near it. The last picture is that same village's satellite image in winter

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