Law Day 5: Bridgerton in the Tundra

Awakening my little peninsula is great. The sun shines, and the forecast promises a quiet, warm and sunny day. I planned this trip, so I don’t have to make long days, on other trips that I have made more than 19 miles, so this feels like a real luxury.

Spanish steering wheel

I relax outside and decide to fly my drone for a little to capture the quiet beauty. While I am playing with him, I listen to voices from the end farther from the lake. There is a canoe: three men go up and pass. I think they are Spanish. Greeting; They greet again. When your laughter fades, the place is silent again and I remember why I love being here alone.

The Amsorsuaq lake has more than 12 miles long. And you are walking the entire length.

Pecus, I start the soft ascent away from the lake. The path is easy, and once I reach a higher land, I find a sign of information: «This area is part of a Unesco world heritage site: the Inuit hunting ground between the ice and the sea.» Apparently, there are archaeological characteristics that date 4,500 years! I don’t think any is visible from the path, at least none I recognized.

Start of the Unesco inheritance site.

Romoning Mr. Bridgerton

I take a break, enjoying my eyes, I take a snack and read a little (I am absorbing a book by Bridgerton, the easy reading type that is perfect for a trip like this. Although if you read several in a row, it becomes annoying. A lot of afflicted and longing and «I cannot live without you»). Then a pair approaches from the opposite direction. They are from the Czech Republic and, laughing, they tell me that they thought it was a rock because I was sitting so still. 😊 They are using head networks, sinister for the next section, and tell me that they have not seen any reindeer. I recommend the camp that I stayed two nights ago: guaranteed reindeer spots. Little world: they had camped on a beach the night before and met Martin, the Danish guy who had met two days before.

Lunch with one side of reinde

We say goodbye and start descending, first gently until I reach a point of view where I can see the beach they mentioned next to the lake. It seems the perfect place for lunch, so I start going down.

If it were later in the day, I definitely camped here. But I still had some hiking hours.

I drop abruptly and accommodate on the beach with some tortillas and jam, basic, but delicious (I get tired quickly with smooth meals). Then I listen to rocks in roll and a reindeer has been carrying the path, much faster than I managed to go. Maybe I have some reindeer pheromones, I definitely seem to attract them.

After the wind finishes, pick up quickly. It’s still sunny, but I have to hold on to my cap to go, until the next mountain.

The Arctic Circle Trail really surrenders in open spaces.

Distractions please!

The wind is turning around the ears; In a climate like this, I like to put my headphones and go to the area with an audiobook or podcast (I have heard many backpack radius episodes while walking). Right now, I’m in Here a moment. It is not «great literature», but entertaining and a good distraction of the wind.

An steep climb takes me to a plateau where the wind continues to push me out of the path. I decide to go to the cabin about two hours away, then I will have shelter for dinner and I can decide how to proceed later.

Inside ikkattoq hut

The home is where the store is

When I get to the cabin, I make hot chocolate and debate if you throw my store. I always sleep better in my store, it is my little bedroom, but the weather is swinging and I don’t like to share huts. In the end I go and put my DURSTON XMID 1P SOLID. It is a trekking tent, so if a stake gives, the tent falls; I anchor with rocks and use additional boy lines. After a while, it remains.

Ikkattoq Hut Campspot

With the tent, lock my team to sleep (partly to help support it) and return to the dinner cabin. I read a little (more bridgerton, my electronic reader has the entire series 😉) and I see an episode of Friends (Downloaded, obvious). Later I looked for more water from the lake and rinse the dirt of my socks (another muddy day). The waves on the shore are wild enough to make me ask me if the lake is not really a fjord. I collected a forecast an hour ago. According to Garmin, there is no wind.

I guess it is good that there are some mattresses there if you are in a hurry. But they are not the cleanest …

Everything alone ..

At 9 pm, I’m still the only one in the cabin and the wind shows no signs of neglecting. I decide to tear down the store and sleep inside after all: a tent on the face all night does not help you sleep well (I’ve been there, he regrets it). Back in the cabin, I lie down for my little window and see the endless night. The sun does not wear, so even with a sleep mask is brilliant. After many days, it is still strange to have the sun in the face at midnight. It really doesn’t help produce that melatonin 😉

See from the window window in the ikkattoq cabin at 10:30 pm

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