TS Day 69

TS Day 69

Via Flötningen, Motståndskojan

Thursday 16 September 2021

In the morning I finished some more blog posts while mum slept some more, then we went up to have breakfast by the picnic table near the shelter and take down the tent.

The walk to Flötningen was on a dort road again, so it went by fast. But by one crossroad, we took right, following the winter trail just as we had done for the whole of yesterday. Weirdly enough, we found out a whole later when looking on the map, we were supposed to go left. There were no signs and no markings, so if we hadn't looked at the map we would never had known. But we decided to continue on the winter trail along the dirt road anyway, which made today's hike perhaps 2-2.5 km longer.

In Flötningen we met dad, and went into the store. There we bought Risifrutti, ice cream, Polarklämmor and warm drinks (hot chocolate and coffee) which we had in the store as a break. Polklämmorna I saved for later though, but oh so delicious they were!

After the break we took the car to the Norwegian border to take two geocaches and take some photos, before returning to the store. Here I was dropped of again and was to continue my hike on my own.

It went fine, but I quickly left the dirt road for the forest again. Here and there was wet bogs, and no footbridges, or broken footbridges, so just as I had began to dry up a bit, my feet were filled by new cold water.

2 km from Röskåsen I took a short detour to Motståndskojan, where I took some pictures, tried to film a video (but it's too cold for the GoPro, it just dies all the time...) and took a geocache. Interesting history here, worth the detour!

When going back though, there was a sign to Röskåsen, but I never found the trail. Instead I off-roaded in the terrain, and tried to make my way towards where the trail was on the map. I never found it though. Do that was quite annoying. But finally I reached Röskåsen, a fäbod from the looks of it, and the house was cozy, so I decided to sleep inside. I was tired though, so just as I had put up my sleeping gear and crawled into my bag, I pretty much fell asleep right away.

Today's:

Favourite: The pause in Flötningen

Distance: 30.2 km

Start time: 09:51

End time: 19:43

Ascent: 483 m

Descent: 242 m

Ice cream eaten: 2

Snickers eaten: 1

Totals (from Grövelsjön)

Distance: 63.7 km

Ascent: 895 m