Thursday, June 7, 2007

Arctic Backpacking

One week of backpacking, Swedish style! No tent, no stove, no water filters, non-existent 2am trains, random Norwegian girls throwing candy to us, rubber cement flavored ramen, sleeping on arctic shrubbery, turnip flakes, climbing glaciers, walking through rivers, when trails become rivers, Swedish 1,200m summits (sadly no Kebnakaise), lobster man, midnight sun (make sure to sleep face down; also references lobster man), reindeer, cooking on the beach, snowed in at mid-June, hiking through 3am - under the sun, pull my finger, drinking water fresh from mountain streams, inventing our own version of the Swedish language. All this and more to be explained soon...probably after living on trains for the next 15 days. Really, I just wanted to let you all know I am still alive despite aforementioned encounters.

This picture was taken at 3:13am.

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