Pathless from Nikkaluokta to Kaitum, how difficult is it?

[tiantian]

Hi. My wife and me will arrive at Nikkaluokta next week and we want to hike to Vakkotavare. To avoid the crowds we think about hike pathless from Nikkaluokta to Kaitum. Can anyone tell me how difficult it would be to hike over Borrasgorsa, Guodekvaggi, around Urtticonhkka, Skarttoalgi and Gavgulvaggi to Kaitum? We hiked pathless before, but we are not seeking for a heavy challenge. We would like to avoid very wet areas or massiv bushland. Gavgulvaggi looks like a lot bushland, will it be possible to avoid it with hiking further up the south side of Stuor-Jierta?

Regards, Sebastian

 

[thureb]

Looks nice in the map but would probably take double time compared with the usual track via Singi.

I suspect that you already have had good advices in a parallell thread https://www.outdoorseiten.net/forum...von-Nikkaluokta-nach-Kaitum-möglich?p=1693607

Thure

 

[smux]

It's just from Nikkaluokta to Singi you should expect a lot of hikers. As soon as you pass Singi and continues south towards Kaitum, the crowds dissappear and you have a nice and scenic trail in front of you.

 

[tiantian]

Looks nice in the map but would probably take double time compared with the usual track via Singi. I suspect that you already have had good advices in a parallell thread https://www.outdoorseiten.net/forum...von-Nikkaluokta-nach-Kaitum-möglich?p=1693607

But nobody in the other board was there in person. So I hoped someone here know more about it.

It's just from Nikkaluokta to Singi you should expect a lot of hikers. As soon as you pass Singi and continues south towards Kaitum, the crowds dissappear and you have a nice and scenic trail in front of you.

But it would take 2 days to pass it, and we already hiked there couple of years ago. With he other one we would be directly alone in the wildness and wasn't there before. I don't care if it will 4 days or not, as long it's a nice scenery and it must be doable of course.

 

[paerl]

It's mostly very nice and easy walking with the only exception being Gávgulvággi where there is quite a lot of vegetation that will slow you down a bit. In my opinion it isn't too bad though, so I wouldn't hesitate to walk through it again myself. The terrain elsewhere is mostly grass-land with some parts where rocks peek up through the soil. If you want to avoid the vegetation in Gávgulvággi you can easily walk north of Stour-Jiertá which is quite a beautiful detour anyway.

I walked the entire way 2010 and part of the way (through Gávgulvággi) 2007, and north of Stour-Jiertá in 2005:
https://www.parlindh.se/fjallvandring/?A=0507&B=050708
https://www.parlindh.se/fjallvandring/?A=0707&B=070805
https://www.parlindh.se/fjallvandring/?A=1007&B=100717
https://www.parlindh.se/fjallvandring/?A=1007&B=100718

There are also some older threads in the forum about this that you can try to read through Google translate:
https://www.utsidan.se/forum/showthread.php?t=13639
https://www.utsidan.se/forum/showthread.php?t=76800
https://www.utsidan.se/forum/showthread.php?t=73964

 

[thureb]

Tack Pär för att du delar dina fina berättelser i text, foton och färdrutter.

Kul med dina fina vägval!

Thure

 

[tiantian]

So I guess we will try it next week. Thank you.