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Despite
the roar from the waterfall, have we slept well. Or is it thanks to? The
sound of nature is the best sleeping-pill. The weather forecast, me looking
at the sky, promise perfect weather. A good opportunity to
wash
the hair. The sun on the clear and blue sky warm us. Eat our breakfast
at the brook. Lie down and enjoy the sunshine. When we were here 1982,
did we follow the brook. It was wet, muddy and slow. Now we walk further
up on the slope, a better choise. When we turn around a hill, do we suddenly
look into the eyes of a giant reindeer. We are equally surprised. The reindeer
jog majestatically away. We find a narrow track not shown on our old map,
it is marked on more recent ones. The track lead to the bridge at Luottojåkkå.
More exactly, where the bridge was supposed to be. Pieces of it are lying
on the opposite side. We learned later at the mountain station in Kvikkjokk
that it was destroyed by the spring flood earlier this year. It will not
be replaced. This is not a problem. Either one ford the brook close to
where the bridge was, or follow the brook downstream where it divide into
several arms. We take lunch.
We
follow the brook downstream, and cross it part by part. No problem at all,
though one has to pass a short area with osier before reaching the track
again. The track continue during a few kilometers through a brushy area
to the locked Njåtjoshut. Two brooks from Luottolako, Skaitatj-jåkkå
and Palkat-jåkkå, meet here. The common brook is best forded
south of the hut, where it is wide, calm and not so deep. One get there
by following the track, there is as well a sign indicating the place. After
the brook do we soon loose the track in the brushwood. We fight us up the
few hundred meters to the bare mountainregion. Much easier up here, and
the view is better. We arrive to Ruopsokjåkkå
at a place where it is deep in a canyon, and have to walk downhill until
it is possible to get down to it. The water is rather swift. The track
that we lost earlier is seen further down in the delta, we ford the brook
where we are. This is a natural place to halt, tomorrow will we cross Säkok,
on our way to Pårek. The preferred route, instead of fighting the
brushwood in Tjuoltavagge. The day is to old for doing it, and there are
no good places to spend the night before Tjeurajaure.
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