A comfortable tenting site has given a night with good sleep. Looking
out from the tent shows that the sun show up now and then between the clouds.
Most of the clouds are in the direction of Ahkka in the west, which is
also our direction today. At nine thirty do we cross the small brook and
walk along the southern shore of the lake. We have a cold wind against
us. It is rather stony, here and there are stripes of boulder stones, stretching
from far up on the slope above us and down to the lake. We have gained
height, since our aim is to enter the small valley before the peaks Alep
Skalariehppe (1245) and Tjårok (1215). It looks easier to walk along
the lake, but things look smaller at distance and this may fool the eye.
The stripes with large stones become more abundant, as we approach the
small valley. We do not complain too much, it is anyway rather easy to
walk on the stones. It could be slippery if they are wet. When we say this
do a shower appear without any notice. Fortunately do it pass at high speed,
and is too short in time for us to put on the rain suit. The stones are
almost dry when the shower has passed. From where we stand do we have a
good view of the lakes Atjek down in Vuosskelvagge. Most of the ground
is covered with stones, mostly standalone so one can easily walk around
them. Not far from the brook that come down from the mountains in the east,
is a tent placed on a green spot. A person is standing outside, we wave
at each other. The brook itself run in a bed of stones, and join further
down the brook from the small lake 1074. South of the lake is it grassy
but wet. We cross the wet area before we have our lunch.
Strengthened by the lunch do we struggle up the slope to the saddle
point between Tjårok and Tjievratjåhkkå (1423), and the
small plateau that follow. Here one walk on a heath, with the view towards
the eastern part of Gassalahko and with the lake 1040, seen in the hole
between Tjårok and Tjievravarasj (1245). In the far distance is Ahkkajavrre
barely visible. The last part up to the point between Tjievravarasj and
1274, do one climb on large stones, placed as a staircase. At the highest
point are two small ponds. We can also see to the other side of Guhkesvagge
where the glacier Suottasjiegna shine white. On the other side of the ponds
pass the persons in the tent we saw earlier. We take a break to study the
view. Gassalahko and Ahkka build up the view in the northwest. The slope
down to Oarjep Tjevrajavrre offer no obstacles, mainly nice meadows. There
are a few stony places, as well as areas covered with dwarf birch. We reach
the lake, where we pass a marsh, before reaching the stony shores of the
brook that leave the lake. We ford it where it is broadest at the flowing
out. The bottom is stony, which makes it slippery. We pass without accidents,
continue through a marsh, and pass a small lake. On the south slope of
Lulep Gassavarasj are a few stripes of stones, we follow one of them down
to a brook, which is deep and broad. As we follow it westward, does
it become shallower and thinner. Almost at the origin of the brook, do
we find our tenting site. We take the standard bath, and afterwards we
can sit in the sunshine, having the dinner with the mountains of
Sarektjåhkkå
with cloudless peaks, and white glaciers in front of us.
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