A pre-winter tour, and upcoming adventures..

Thursday lunch the car was turned to the north. This time it was time for a tour to Jamtland/Halsingland. The pre-winter tour has its own spirit. The mountains are going to sleep, and the whole environment preparing for the winter to come. The brook begins to freeze, and the frost begins to come. The days are short, so you have to plan to use the daylight as effective as possible. This year the tour was planned for the Helags Mountain. Number three on National geographic list of best summit hikes.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/lists/hiking-backpacking/worlds-best-summit-hikes/

Ulf Bergman with fire wood on the back pack (photo Mikael Linder.)

Nine a clock we started. The backpack with firewood was on my back, and we started to follow the track upwards the Torkilstoten slope. The ground was shallow frozen, and here and there snow. We followed the trail up to Helags, and it was quite easy to see the summer trail. After three hours we reach the target of the day. Time for the Base-work and get everything prepared for the night. Saturday was meant for a summit attempt. So we started and heading up for the northern ridge. Some of the slopes was snowy, some icy and some was rocky. Sometimes the wind was real hard and at 1500m we decided to stop, got some coffee. After a short discussion we decided to descend.

Time for making decision of continue or turn…(Photo Mikael Linder)

A guide in his right environment, on the mountain…(Photo Mikael Linder)

After a short repacking we continued on the trail to Sylarna. As usual Jamtland delivered a fabulous day..

A hard choice, going to the summit of Helags or go to Sylarna..

And then it was time to go back home..

The trail back to the civilisation..

The snow and ice is on its way, and it is time for planning the upcoming adventures. There will be a couple of Ice climbing tours I hope..

So Alvdalen/Trangslet and Rjukan in Norway will be the target. And some skiing it will be of course. The planning is on. A tour to Iran and summiting the Mt Damavand is also a target for 2018..

When it is cold, some hot music will thaw us up..

See ya soon. On Thursday a new blog will be done..