Day 3: Alesjaure to Tjäktja
Channel: Matthias Grallert
Date: 23/01/2020

Day 3 of the Kungsleden was VERY (VERY!) windy... 💨💨💨
I had to get out of the tent at night, because the wind was stronger than my poorly setup tent and I had to re-adjust some straps... Rule number 1 when you camp: ALWAYS setup your tent as if there is a storm! Because it sucks to get out at night because of a poor tent... 👎
Wind was blowing in my face the whole day and sometimes it suddenly changed direction to the side, so I had to make sure I don't fall from the boardwalk...
The wind was very loud the whole day and for breaks I chose big rocks to get some shelter.
I mainly did the breaks to get out of the loud wind for a moment...
About 1 hour before Tjäktja it started to rain. Not "heavy" rain, but because of the wind it felt extremely "heavy" and even hurt my face. Wind AND rain is a bad situation. Very quick I felt cold and excausted. "Hyperthermia" is a typical thing in such conditions. I had planed to camp that night but because of the weather and my desire to warm up and dry my clothes  (my rainjacket turned out to be not so "waterproof" anymore...) I decided to stay at the Tjäktja hut. I was very lucky, because the weather had filled up the small hut with many other hikers already. Apparently I got the LAST available bed and was told that I maybe have to move to the kitchen floor in case someone with a DOG arrives. Because the room I stayed in was especially made for HIKERS WITH DOGS. How amazing is that? Sweden is SO dogfriendly.  I already noticed that on the train from Stockholm to Abisko: the train had special compartments for people with dogs. COOL! 🐕 So of course I would have moved to the kitchen floor, but noone with a dog showed up so I was allowed to stay in that room with a proper bunkbed 😁 But the kitchen was FULL with people sleeping on the floor. After dinner, around 9-10pm, they moved away all tables and used some spare mattrasses from the hut or camping mattrasses...
Everything was so friendly and peaceful and it was nice to experience a "typical hut" instead of camping all nights.

#kungsleden #sweden

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Photos, videos, editing and production:
MATTHIAS GRALLERT 

Music:
Just the UNPLUGGED sound of nature, my footsteps and occasionally some coughing and sniffing 😁