Hiking the Tavelsjö path

Maria came home from work earlier than usual, which made it possible for us to leave the apartment before 4 pm. Since pavement is not so fun to walk on, we took the bus the 4 km stretch downtown. From there we walked to the starting point for the Tavelsjö path, which we had decided to walk during this weekend.





The path meandered through the forest, lingonberry and blueberry lined the path most of the time.






Our first stop, about 5 km later, was Hamptjärnsstugan, from which you had a nice view over Umeå. Right now the cabin wasn't open, but the place was prepared also for winter activities. On the bare rock there were some rest cabins spread out. Since the water access didn't exist, the south east wind was whining and the cliffs were quite hard to put a tent on, we continued.
Next to Hamptjärnen on another path, we decided to camp for the night. We could hear that we still were quite close to civilization; propeller-driven aircraft and the ice cream truck was not far away.
We unfolded our newly purchased tent, at the same time finding out how to do it the right way since it was the first time.It was perhaps not the best of camp grounds; a couple of evening strollers passed by quite close. The three person tent was roomy for two persons, we put our backpacks in the apse.
After that, it was time to try cooking on the also new kitchen. Quite spartan, but okay. Dish-washing followed and then dessert, consisting of forest raspberries. When dusk closed in and the mosquitoes were to pushy we crawled into our sleeping bags around nine pm.