The Walk

Easter came and went. As I had hoped and expected, it brought a good solid walk for friday-saturday through the forests of Örebro county along Bergslagsleden. We started up early friday with a 140km drive to get there (thank you bro'!) and set off eventually.
We just had to start by walking a couple of kilometers in the wrong direction to warm up and get used to the pace.

The experience gained was that even though the Swedish Military didn't chose to take me on, I can apparantly do some good marching. And regardless of what the thermometer says,
you can get some good (hmm ...) sleep in a shelter at -10 ºC.
I suppose we proved to ourselves that we can stand each other's company once more (thank you Hugo!)

The Death-Defying Duo. Batman & Robin

The receipt was on the minus side, a couple of hundred SEK spent on food, same couple of hundreds on gas to get there and a sleeping bag to stay in and slightly more to get a pair of trekking pants. And a few layers of skin on the feet got peeled off.

On the plus side is a new experience, a strenghtened confidence
... and a whole lotta fresh air.



Lesson learned is that you CAN drink water straight out of a stream or lake and not get ill. And you CAN learn to appreciate slightly more spartan food than you are used to just by adding a little element of necessity and survival in to it.