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Hiking Sweden Alone and Lost in Abisko National Park Story and photos by Madelaine Triebe
After encountering a huge crowd all going in the same direction, a solo traveler back in her birthplace of Sweden takes the wrong path less traveled.
I'm standing at a crossroad looking to my left and then looking to my right, realizing I have no idea of where I am. At this point exactly, on my first ever hike above the Arctic Circle, in the very north of Sweden, I'm certain I'm lost.
My feet and socks are wet and so are my dark blue fake Levi's Jeans from Bangkok rolled up to my shins. The northern Swedish sky is dense with clouds in shades of grey and it can't be more than 57 Fahrenheit on this early afternoon in the beginning of September in the Swedish mountain valley. I am in Abisko National Park and I have never been this far north before; the landscape is completely new to me and so is going on a solo three-day hike.