It rains during the night, but when we wake up at seven is it cloudy
and no rain. I make a short excursion in the forest to find some flowers
to take a photo of, but without any success. We put our things together
and walk back to the reindeer fence, where the track up through the forest
to the bare mountain region start. The track seems more visible to us,
than the last time walked here. Here and there do the water use the track
as a brook, which makes it rather wet. There are recently made small bridges
of ribbons over the brooks. The reindeer farmes use small mopeds, we assume
the bridges are for them. We struggle our way uphill. At a small marsh
do the track fade away, we choose to walk straight across it. Not a very
wise decision, it gets deep, and we have to go back. But too late, my friend
get stuck and fall when he tries to turn around. With some effort do we
get him back up, but drenched. The sun has fortunately started to shine,
and it is warm. He will soon be dry again. We now see that the track makes
a detour around the marsh. In front of us, along the view of the track,
is the pyramid shaped and lone peak Slugga (1279). Behind us is the view
of the lake from where we came sometimes be seen from openings in the birch
forest. As we ascend do the birch forest become more and more sparse.
Just before where the track leaves the forest do it definitely fade
away when reaching the bare mountain region, here do we abandon it and
walk through the remaining thin stripe of trees, up to slope towards the
valley Vuosskelvagge. One must pass a few stripes of boulder stones, else
is it mainly moores. We get a good view towards east, where the lake Bietsavrre
is seen. Further up does it get more stone, but it is still very easy to
walk here. We walk up on the hill without name, marked with 1016 on the
map. From the hill is it almost a 360 degree view. In the south and north
consists the view of mountains, with Skanatjåhkkå (1767) as
the highest peak in the south. In front of Skanatjåhkkå is
the vertical wall of Gäbnasjgåhpe. Beneath are a few small lakes.
In the north is it Hallji (1354) that dominates, here as well are a few
small lakes. In the front of us, in our direction towards west, are the
main lakes, with Vuosskeljavrre as the closest one. Behind the lakes is
Unna Atjek (1225), and further away can we see Ahkka. We descend towards
the lake Vuosskeljavrre, looking for a suitable tenting site. The terrain
has become even more stony, and since we like comfortable tenting sites
without stones, is it not easy to find one with our requirements. At the
eastern end of the lake is a brook entering it, and there is gravel beach
on which others seems to have had their lodging. To us does it seem to
be too exposed to water and wind, instead do we choose a somewhat more
protected terrace formation upstream. Not a very large place, but grassy
and with no stones, and large enough for the tent. The wind is absent,
the surface of the lake is glassy. The landscape is admiring it's own beauty.
We disturb the mirror image by taking a bath.
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