The next day the wind was strong and it was raining a lot in the morning. We decided to take it easy and wait for the weather to clear up a bit. And this is what is so fascinating about the weather in the mountains. It can change from sunshine, to rain, to snow, to hail, and back to sunshine within an hour. And that is exactly what happened on the hike we did today. We decided to walk halfway up to
Sylarna, which is an 16 km (10 miles) hike round trip.
The wooden planks that someone (who is in charge of that?) had put out on many of the trails were a real help. These planks saved you from walking in deep marsh water.
If you get lost on the way from
Storulvån to
Sylarna, you can follow the telephone poles (if there isn't a snow storm, of course). These telephone poles were the only reminders of civilization as you can walk for miles and miles without seeing anybody or hearing any
noise pollution.
After 8 kilometers we reach a little hut, just in time to
avoid a hail storm.
The wind measure showed gusts of 20 meter/second, i.e. almost storm winds.
But here it is dying down, so it is time to hike back.
As we leave other hikers are eager to get inside for their lunch break.
And now we can
see blue sky for a while.
Back in the lodge the big event for the evening was to listen to the European soccer cup game between Germany and Turkey. The lodge did not have a TV, so after much searching we found this radio that we were able to hook up to an antenna.
A toast for Germany's 3-2 win.
I wanted to get a picture of the late night sun, but unfortunately it was cloudy. But to show you how light it is at night I took the above picture at 11:30 pm.
The next day it was time to head back to Stockholm. We wished we could have had more time so that we could have completed the triangle, but that will have to wait until another time.
We took the day train from
Enafors to Stockholm, which took about 10 hours.
The next day the wind was strong and it was raining a lot in the morning. We decided to take it easy and wait for the weather to clear up a bit. And this is what is so fascinating about the weather in the mountains. It can change from sunshine, to rain, to snow, to hail, and back to sunshine within an hour. And that is exactly what happened on the hike we did today. We decided to walk halfway up to Sylarna, which is an 16 km (10 miles) hike round trip.
The wooden planks that someone (who is in charge of that?) had put out on many of the trails were a real help. These planks saved you from walking in deep marsh water.
If you get lost on the way from Storulvån to Sylarna, you can follow the telephone poles (if there isn't a snow storm, of course). These telephone poles were the only reminders of civilization as you can walk for miles and miles without seeing anybody or hearing any noise pollution.
After 8 kilometers we reach a little hut, just in time to avoid a hail storm.
The wind measure showed gusts of 20 meter/second, i.e. almost storm winds.
But here it is dying down, so it is time to hike back.
As we leave other hikers are eager to get inside for their lunch break.
And now we can see blue sky for a while.
Back in the lodge the big event for the evening was to listen to the European soccer cup game between Germany and Turkey. The lodge did not have a TV, so after much searching we found this radio that we were able to hook up to an antenna.
A toast for Germany's 3-2 win.
I wanted to get a picture of the late night sun, but unfortunately it was cloudy. But to show you how light it is at night I took the above picture at 11:30 pm.
The next day it was time to head back to Stockholm. We wished we could have had more time so that we could have completed the triangle, but that will have to wait until another time.
We took the day train from Enafors to Stockholm, which took about 10 hours.
1 comment:
so you didnt finish the triangle but still bought the shirt, huh...
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