Stupsjön to Id-Persätern
Distance: 40km
To beat the mosquitoes, I'm on my way by 05:15. It's another cold morning but the rising sun is warming me up quickly. The first roughly 10 kilometers are forestry
roads, the remaining 30 kilometers are on a hiking trail. Again through forest and wetlands with very limited views. It's fairly easy going, well marked, clear path. 30 kilometers on the same
trail is a long time though. Time is passing slowly (and this is only a taste how the landscape will look like further south... ) I kill the time by randomly trying to name all US-States. I think
I got around 30 out of... Good question. Around 50?
Anyway, eventually I make it to my sleeping place at Id-Persätern. Lovely old shelter and perfect for the night.
There's not much more to tell so let's talk about food. Food - one of the most important things on a hike. You burn a lot of calories, you need to eat lot of them.
If you run out of food, you run into trouble. Simple facts.
To avoid running out, I usually always carry one or two extra days worth of food. Be it because I am slower than planned or I have to sit out bad weather. For this
275 Kilometer-stretch I have food for 8 days. For each day one bag. Dinner is straight forward: usually 250 grams of pasta with fried onion. I'm not picky here.
I never eat breakfast as I am an early bird when it comes to hiking. Usually I have a first break after 2 to 3 hours where I start opening my food bag. It weights
roughly 750 grams containing mostly peanuts and raisins (I don't really like it so I don't eat it too quickly). Then comes the delicious stuff, which I hide beneath the peanuts and raisins and
varies from one time to the other (depending on what I find in the store). For these 7 days it's 100 grams of chocolate, 1 Müsli bar, 1 Norwegian Version of KitKat, 6 cockies, licorice and some
dried fruits.
This is going to be all I get until dinner. If I run out, too bad. Only when I get closer to resupply again, I start to splurge a bit, eating through my reserves.
However, mostly just the good stuff like chocolate and cookies ;)
![Lots of forest walking today](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i0de1d43d85c32159/version/1628517209/image.jpg)
![Passing a few tarns](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i25a1c16cfae69060/version/1628517250/image.jpg)
![And rivers](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/id670138b1039d306/version/1628517269/image.jpg)
![Only for a couple of hundred meters I'm above the tree line](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i976c7ccf26d756ac/version/1628517312/image.jpg)
![My trail food for a day](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i63f5f30fb912fb6d/version/1628517336/image.jpg)
![Today's selection](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i8907e01fe0c35dcc/version/1628517351/image.jpg)
![And dinner: pasta with fried onion](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i378c5b7c652cba16/version/1628517385/image.jpg)
![And my sleeping place](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i0595446501a9a046/version/1628517420/image.jpg)
![Quite nice, isn't it?](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/s54f301a039b463fe/image/i8da4e0e63d22b90a/version/1628517439/image.jpg)
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