So I never wrote on day 5 or in the days after a summary of the day. Now that I’m finished I have the time to fill in the missing days. This is also the case for day 6 and some days at the end.
Yesterday we hiked to the summit of Kebnekaise and it cost me a lot of afford. But with 12 hours of sleep (honestly, it was that long) my body recovered and I had no physical problems. Donald said he felt some exhaustion in his body. That makes sense. We have hiked every plus yesterday. But he/we wanted to continue and go back to the Kungsleden route.
In the morning we met many people that we saw in the hut or the Sauna. These were the people that hiked from Abisko to Nikkaluokta
There was a shortcut possible, that would require a little bit more elevation gain. But would pass a lake and on the map it already looked promising. Donald had to convince me a little bit because I absolutely did NOT want a path like yesterday. So maybe physically recovered, but mentally not ready for more challenges. But it was really not that much more elevation than the other route, plus fewer kilometres to walk.
It was indeed stunning and we lunched up there. Me in my full mosquito protection outfit. Donald is just in his regular outfit.
The afternoon was fine. We noticed some rain clouds behind us. So we assumed it was now our time to get wet. But we only had a little bit of rain. I also so another hiker very busy with his tent guidelines. As it was an MSR I thought I knew his concern. So I gave the cryptic instruction ‘You can place your hiking pole underneath the’. Not even a complete sentence. Donald had no clue, but apparently, I did understand his concern because he did actually as I meant. Which was placing your hiking pole underneath your tent pole that widens your tent entrance. Because it bends scary far if the wind pushes it. The hiking poles support the tent pole on the edges, so it can’t bend.
We continued and found a beautiful camp spot. Close to the hut, but not close enough so you have to pay. Did the typical evening routine (bath and ate) and even wandered to the hut for an evening stroll.
Was again a great day.
Zilla-in-the-wild 