
Day 1: Gränsleden Ritsem – Sievgok
Finally back in the north!
We take the road towards Sitasjaure and soon turn left to Gränsleden, which is hard to miss with a big sign. Today’s stage takes us to the Sievgok resting hut, where we will pitch our tent. According to our plan this is 8 kilometres, we expect to be there in 3 – 4 hours.


Also today it is warm and sunny and we walk short sleeved.
Lustwandler Panorama: Ein Klick öffnet das Bild und man kann sich umsehen!

The answer: unfortunately no. Once again we recognize that training hikes on forest paths in Austria (with the same high weight of our backpacks) are not comparable with the conditions in the Fjäll. It’s funny that we underestimate this again and again. Actually not so funny at all.
It is a constant uphill and downhill, a lot of mud and wetness, stones, rocks. We stop more often to enjoy, to look for reindeer in the distance, to take pictures and to smile at one another. It’s sooo great up here!

Lustwandler Panorama: Ein Klick öffnet das Bild und man kann sich umsehen!

The resting hut is actually only a weather protection with a table and two benches, as you can see on the picture. We eat, meanwhile wrapped up warmly, in the resting hut and then we quickly get into the warm sleeping bag.
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