kungsleden STF cabins and Covid restrictions

[coffee_hiker]

Hello all -- I was wondering if anyone has experience staying in STF huts during Covid? Their website says you have to bring a sleeping bag AND sheets + pillow cover. I would really like to avoid carrying so much sleeping gear. Does anyone know what the minimum acceptable gear would be okay? Or just have any idea for lightweight / compact items that would meet the requirements?

Thanks! 🙏

 

[skogsmulle68]

Last year on combined tent/hut trip, I bought a sleeping kit in the first STF hut (normally all huts with store have these kits). Then I brought parts of it and reused it in the next hut.
This year I have bought a 190g silk sheet that I can use both in the tent and in the huts combined with my sleeping bag/quilt.
So, minimum requirement is a sheet and a cover for the pillow if you use one.

 

[coffee_hiker]

@skogsmulle68 Whats inside the sleeping kit that you got at the STF store? And also, are you saying I can make do with just the sheet and pillow cover ? and without the sleeping bag?

 

[skogsmulle68]

Sleeping kits come with: sheet, blanketcover and a pillowcase.
Huts have pillows and blankets, but if you want to use the blanket you also need the cover or your own sleeping bag/quilt.
So, whatever sleeping gear you use in the hut, you need a cover for it.

 

[SaraTommy]

Hello all -- I was wondering if anyone has experience staying in STF huts during Covid? Their website says you have to bring a sleeping bag AND sheets + pillow cover. I would really like to avoid carrying so much sleeping gear. Does anyone know what the minimum acceptable gear would be okay? Or just have any idea for lightweight / compact items that would meet the requirements?

Thanks! 🙏

Just make the bed with the pillow under the sheet, that way no pillow case needed.
And buy a sleeping bag liner to sleep in.
So minimum needed: a sheet and a liner.

 

[coffee_hiker]

@ SaraTommy Thanks! follow up question: would you recommend going for this minimum, or is it risky to be without a sleeping bag due to the cold? We're heading out in the beginning of August.

 

[KimE]

If the cabin beds are full you may have to sleep on the floor or in the sauna it would be uncomfortable with only a sheet.

 

[packåsna]

If the cabin beds are full you may have to sleep on the floor or in the sauna it would be uncomfortable with only a sheet.

That will not happen as long as booking is required, but it is worth keeping in mind if STF cabins go back to working like they did pre-COVID.

 

[coffee_hiker]

Wow you can sleep in the sauna?? Okay got it. thank you all.

Sad about the saunas being closed this season... I feel like im missing out on a huge part of the experience

 

[KimE]

In theory every one makes perfect travel plans and reservations, but the weather and the mountains may change them.