Wednesday 17 October 2012

A Traverse of The Sarek National Park, in Lapland, Sweden, in August 2012.

Lapland Airport, Gallivare.
Gallivare Campsite.


These guys had been in the Sarek for a while...

The boat from Ritsim to the Sarek

Carl my trekking companion stepping off the boat in the Sarek

Looking back across to the Sarek

Typical Swedish walking trail


STF station

We camped further down the trail. Cooked up a beef stew the first night.

It had been raining alot in the days before we arrived...


Birch forest

Dwarf Birch.



Another STF station

My low point in the trip...constant rain and millions of huge black mosquito's.

Carl looking very happy...




Old Sami shelter, made of birch beams, then birch bark then lastly turf on the outside. 




Mosquitoes...

Old shelter left, we camped next to it and cooked inside and dried our kit.




Luckily the rivers were not to high





Emergencyhut/phone


















































Reindeer Skins

White Reindeer

Sami cat

Smokehouse

Boat ride £70....
The boats dog



Carl has a rest...



Wood gas stove

Skierfe

Skierfe


Skierfe Top.



Rapa Delta Sarek

Rapa Delta Sarek
Rapa Delta Sarek










STF station we bought beers here!



















Still light at 12am









Ant nest


Almost at trails end.

Cloudberries

The Finish! 

Kivvokkjok STF