Swedish Via Ferrata and lakes
Trip Start
May 16, 2007
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Trip End
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Åre, Sweden
Friday, June 8, 2007
We got up in the morning and realised that we were 0,004mm higher than the previous night! After a heavy dose of Diamox, we packed up and drove to Skuleberget.
Now I know what your saying, what the %#!¤½ is Skuleberget?!?!
It is the site of Sweden's highest 'Via Ferrata'... and just up the road from the High Coast, so it's getting higher!!!
This is an unique type of rock climbing, where you are always attached to the rock via a safety cord to thick metal cables. It is not like traditional climbing where you are using the natural features of the rock to drag your butt up hill, but this you hold on the the cables, and jimmy yourself up. Where there is no place for your feet, they place a large (very convenient) peg there for some assistance. Especially helpfull if you a vertically challanged!
It means that you can get very high off the ground, very safely.
It was a great climb, and despite only being 300 vertical meters, it still took us about 2½ hours to get up.
It was a climb of smiles and tears, adreneline and exhaustion... but we made it!
What would you do after a long day outside in the sun?
Your hot and sweaty and the tempreature is pushing 25C?
-- Well if your Swede you drop your dacks and jump inot the nearest lake (there are about 96,000 lakes in Sweden so your never far from one)... this Brastralian after some coaxing decided that when in Sweden, do as the Swedes do...
Enjoy the pics!!!
