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Nice Jaakko! We are preparing our 15-day traverse of Sarek, which will also start in Ritsem on 30 March. Looking forward to your report!
There are allready couple of short notes from the trip and longer trip report with pics will be available by the end of the week. Sounds liek a great trip! Hopefully you’ll have better weather and less knee-deep soft snow! The weather in April should generally be better.
Was the knee-deep snow issue an overall-issue? How was the crossing of the big lake from Ritsem?
We are tending to follow trough the main valleys, in the hope to not have the deep-snow issue…
Deep soft snow was an issue only on the forested areas in the end. The storms had probably blown the snow to the forested areas as there was less snow than usually on the open fjell areas. I don’t think it should be an issue to you – but you never know. That’s the beauty of it.
The water level (ice) was higher than normal and the lake was easy to cross. Because of the hydropower plant the water level and ice thickness may vary and to play it safe I’d recommend using the marked snow scooter track across the lake from Ritsem parkign area to the Akkastugan hut. We used that on our way back.
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