Thursday 25/6 – part two

I had a quick peek inside the warden's cottage, confirming that my stuff was indeed there, and then walked over to the guest cottage. There I found a couple resting against the sunlit wall, who had come along the trail and would soon be returning the same way. Back in my cottage I got the phone working and called STF to announce my arrival, after which I proceeded to check on the gas – and found leakage galore. After barely managing to get spare parts out of the brim-full, minimal storage building I also managed to restore the system to working order, but almost a canister's worth of gas had probably been lost. Another leakage had occured in one of my parcels, where a glass jar had shattered and spilled its contents, resulting in 1) moisture and 2) mold, but the damage appeared mostly superficial as everything else in there was also packaged to some degree or other.

My home-to-be

Others' home-to-be

I put the fresh foodstuffs I had brought into what passed for the local earth cellar, and then went to fetch water, which involved some roundabout motion since large snowfields still blocked access to both the lake and the stream for long stretches. I proceeded to have dinner, reading through the material I had carried out from Abisko, and then had a wash in a temporary pool formed by the melting snow between the buildings, which was of course also very cold. The sun had now mostly passed into dense clouds from up the valley, and the westerly wind was both appreciable and chilly. I rearranged the contents of the (surprisingly few) cupboards in the warden's cottage to make room for my provisions, and just generally unpacked and moved in.

The evening was fair but windy, and there were no more visits. Finding the radio's reception quite subpar I went in search of an antenna, quickly finding a discarded cord in the old warden's cottage, which did the trick. I spent the evening looking through papers and old wardens' notes, and eventually went to bed in Kårsavagge for the first time before 23.

View east...

...over Gaskkamus Gorsajávri

The guest cottage beneath Boazočohkka

Cottage and the lake

Sunny evening

All the buildings

Good night