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Misc. photos from today's trail
Day 5, Tjäktja - Sälka
It usually takes about three days of hiking until people reach a
stage in their minds where they have left most of their everyday
lifes and problems behind. Now everybody are slowly, deep down in
their unconscious minds, beginning to accept that right now their
only worries in the world are to walk and to get something to eat
and drink. Only a few basic needs to take care of, and people feel
good about it. All the physical daily activity add to the well being
too, and here in Swedish Lapland you can also add clean air, solitude
and silence.
A stony valley below Tjäktjatjåkka, between the Tjäktja
cabin and Tjäktja-pass. Not much flowers down here, but we
should encounter at least some Glacial buttercups.
The Tjäktja-pass and the emergency shelter on the highest point
of the trail is now clearly visible.
The shelter is accompanied by an outside privy. If you are coming
from the Tjäktja direction, then you would have entered this
photo from right. It is said that it is always windy up here.
You are not supposed to use this emergency shelter to stay in, unless
of course, it is an emergency.
The Swedish Touring Club is saving on the guest books, or maybe
it is just more fun to carve with a knife.
"Humble and proud in faith: that is to live. That in God I
am nothing, but God is in me." A pretty embarrassing translation
by me, I suspect, but anyway, this is one more of the meditation
spots along this trail.
Tjäktjatjåkka. A long mountain chain to our left when we walk down
in the valley. Čeakčačohkka in Sámi.
A nameless peak to our right just before we arrive to the Sälka
cabins. 1484 meters above sea level, or 684 meters from the bottom
of the valley.
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