The Best Free Food On The Trail! When it comes to hiking snacks, it’s hard to beat fresh, wild blueberries, found right beside the trail. As 17% of Sweden is said to be covered…
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Reflections, Reflections! What better way to spend a Sunday morning than waking up in the great outdoors! (Well we think so anyway, especially when you are lucky enough to have great weather and impressive…
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To Row Or Not To Row? If you’ve been following along with our journey so far, you will know that in just a week on the trail we’ve already had a fair amount of…
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Only Your Feet Know The True Mileage! What happens when a sign reads one thing but your map tells you another? You hope for the shortest distance to be true! On long distance hikes,…
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From Macro to Micro… There are few places on earth that have the power to make you feel like you are on another planet. A mere 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, among…
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For The Love of the Trail… A journey begins with a single step, so the ancient mantra goes. After yesterday’s wonderful walk to Ammarnäs we were in great spirits. Whether it was in part…
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Feeling On Top Of The World… Literally! 61 kilometres into our Kungsleden journey and about to embark on ‘Day 4’, we were thrilled to wake up to blue skies and sunshine at last! Good weather…
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What A Difference A Day Makes… After an exceedingly wet start, we were by now dubious as to what the Kungsleden would bring. Had we made the right decision choosing to start our hike…
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Taking Time Off The Trail To Experience A Truly Swedish Phenomenon… We never envisaged that on the second day of our journey on the Kungsleden trail, we’d be bailing out early to sit naked…
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Heading North For A New Adventure… Traversing some of the least frequently visited regions in Scandinavia, the Kungsleden or King’s Trail is a 270 mile/ 440 km long distance trail in northern Sweden that…
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Fast-Track To The Finish… Time for celebrations! Rather than feeling a little melancholic that it was all over, this time we were all smiles as another long distance hike came to an end. Yes,…
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Simply No Alternative! It was our penultimate day on the trail. We could almost taste victory and that celebratory glass of Corsican wine with our name on it in Calenzana! However we still had…
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A Little Respite Off-Route… With our main objective being to fit all 16 stages of the GR20 into 12 days – we made the most of the Cirque de la Solitude being closed and…
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Striding Out! Although it might not look it from our photographs, today was actually one of the least demanding days on the GR20, allowing us to make good progress towards our end goal –…
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Fleeing The Storm… It was with a wave of apprehension that we took to the trail today. Yesterday’s storm had continued to rage around us throughout the night, and could still be seen on…
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Taking The High Route! A week on the trail and we already felt much fitter and stronger – both in body and spirit. If there’s one thing the GR20 had taught us, it was…