Kungsleden Day 11 - Nero Town Day

Overview

Hiking duration: 1:35
KM: 6:05
Elevation gain in Meters: 33
Start: Near Lástak on the trail
End: Kvikkjokk

Good morning

We slept good and got up around 7 am, it was warm more or less the whole night. But in the morning the mosquitoes were still attached to our tent, so putting it down was bit of a challenge.

Way down

We hit the trail shortly before 8 am. After around 400m we saw Anton and Fredrik which were packing up. The last 6 km down to the boat were all through forest, so nothing too special.

Sometimes it opened up a bit and then there were nice views of the mountains.

Then we already reached the boat pier which provided an amazing view of the mountains in the back.

We were a bit early and arrive at around 09:30 am so we had to wait about an hour. This time was used for a revitalizing swim in the ice cold lake.

The boat ride was quick and then we reached the shore in front of Kvikkjokk. There was a 5 minute walk to the STF Fjällstation where we will stay for the night.

We arrived there around 10:50 but checkin wasn’t until 14:00. So we just chilled a bit in the lobby and at 12:00 we ordered lunch (burgers) and beer. Real food!! I was too excited to take a picture, but it looked and tasted really great 😋

The afternoon was then spent with chilling, washing clothes (in the sink) and having a real shower (after 6 days without). It was just great to have a day off :)

In the evening we had dinner at the STF Restaurant and we both went for the vegetable skewers. This time I even took a picture :)

There were some more beer with the guys and then it was time for a real bed.

First we needed to get rid of all the mosquitoes in the room, we killed around 20 and then hoped for a quiet night.

But at around 1 am I woke up because of the mosquitoes and we did another hunt and killed some more. This repeated itself like 1-2 hours later… Nicole had enough by then and we but up the inner tent and she slept there…

We hoped for a real bed after 6 nights camping and we got a lot of mosquito bites :)

Nero ?!

The term Nero comes from a near Zero (a Zero day on the trail means no km at all). So it means just some easy km, but no serious hiking.

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