My friend fetch me at eight in the morning. I say goodbye to the cat and the cat sitters, a young couple that will live in my flat while I'm away. At the Sturup airport do they discover our fuel for the cooking equipment. Not allowed to bring it on the plane! They say and keep it. Hopefully can we buy new when we arrive at Saltoluokta, the starting point of this year hike. Our plane leave at 9.30 from Sturup and we land safely on Arlanda at 12.30. We have time to eat lunch at Arlanda before the flight at 14.30 to Gällivare. The flight time is two hours to Gällivare. A bus takes us directly from the airport at Gällivare to Kebnats, the boat connection to the Saltoluokta mountain station. We are lucky, the last litre of fuel in the small shop at the mountain station is ours. The mountain station is located in a birch forest some hundred meters from where the boat land. The trail Kungsleden leads from here towards Aktse and Kvikkjokk. At ten past five in the afternoon can we start, and we follow the trail. It takes us through the birch forest up to the bare mountain region above the tree line. The mosquitos like our company in the good weather.

On this part of Kungsleden is it easy to walk, though it is uphill during the first part after the mountain station. The track is very broad and the landscape is after the uphill rather flat. The hills around us are low, and not very impressive. After a few kilometers do the track reach the broad valley Autsutjvagge, the jåkk is in a small gorge and is surrounded with osiers. After 10 km do we abandon the track and walk down into the osier, the destination today is the lake Muorkatjauratjah. While we walk do we collect dead wood for making a fire, but we give up the idea. Seems stupid walking and carrying around dead wood. At a small brook from the hills in the west and not far from Muorkatjauratjah do we find our camping site. We have this year a new tent, interesting to see how we manage to rise it. My friend has tried it, but I have not seen it before. Of course is it not a problem, it is easy to handle at least in the good weather as it is tonight. We frie and eat sausages, in the meantime do the mosquitos eat us. It is almost midnight when can come to rest, it is definitely sleeping time after a long day.