Wednesday 4/8
Abisko
I was awoken in the middle of the night by heavy snoring, but managed to get back to sleep. People started moving about and then exiting when the time was closing in on the 07:00 mark, but I stayed in bed for an hour longer. Looking out the window I saw that it was almost entirely clear, so I made another round as I headed over for breakfast. This meal was consumed on the veranda overlooking the lake, where I also found the quartet. When there was no wind it was nice and all, but the air was not too warm, and when the sun passed behind the building we all went inside, and had the next round together. I then returned to Keron where I phoned the train company to reserve another ticket to Gällivare, wherefrom I intended to take a bus to Jokkmokk to visit my grandmother before going home. By that time all the others had left my room, so I cleaned it out in peace. I then checked out at the reception and after leaving my stuff in the luggage room I went out for a walk in the nice weather.
Classic Abisko morning
Njullá and the cableway
Abiskoalperna from the other direction
Some mist on the water
Panorama from Njullá out over Torneträsk
Slender Rihtonjira
I started out by going down into the forest below the buildings, following a path down to a ledge of flat rocks from where I had a good view of Ábeskoeatnu and the lower parts of its canyon. I then walked up to and crossed the nearby bridge and took to the duckboards leading upwards beside the ever deeper canyon. Up until then I had been alone, but now a sizeable group as well as some other people were coming down the path. I went under the ways, of cars and rail alike, to get a look at the roaring water being sucked into the tunnel, and then returned along the navvy road. I read through a collection of press cuttings in the library and then prepared my pack for departure; the train was announced as a little bit late, but I walked over to the station anyway. The sky was now growing cloudy from the south, and just before the train arrived the sun was covered, so it felt like a good time to take another leave from Abisko and the fjelds of Lapland.
The outflow of Ábeskoeatnu into Torneträsk
The tourist station rising above the forest
Canyon upstream
Canyon downstream
The station across the canyon
Out of the tunnel
Into the tunnel
Towards Ábeskojávri