GappoHytta weekend 22-23

Relatively unpredicted I decided on Friday to leave Tromso for the weekend and go hiking in the mountains. It was a proposal from Bente, who would drive up to Signadalen together with an other friend, Ingvild. They would go to a cabin called Gappohytta situated at 700m altitude, a few hundred meters from the Swedish boarder. With no second thoughts I decided to join them....and so we left on Saturday morning 8 o' clock, just the 3 girls, for an adventure weekend. It was really THE weekend to go hiking as the weather was terrific, just 2 plain sunshiny days, and the autumn is at its best now. The colors are really amazing... and together with tainted forests of a million happy colors there is also quiet a lot of snow on the mountains yet! The sun rays were first shining through the multicolored leaves and a bit higher reflecting brightly on the snow on top of the mountains. There is no such painting as the one of the autumn!!
So we walked, first through a forest next to a river with high debit, than above the tree level and later through plateaus of rocks formed by tectonic activity a million of years ago. The cabin we reached after 4h of walk.
Finally there we found a nice little house striped with heavy chains to the ground so that it wouldn' t blow of with the heavy winds that can occur at that place!!! It was very impressive and the whole place with the decor was evoking fairy tales.
We spend the night there cooking ourselves some great food and sipping wine while having girls talks. The night also brought up some surprises....While the tree of us were having a pee in bush, keeping an eye on each other and possibly bears (!) suddenly the sky lighted up in green from the northernlights! It was amazing again.....You have no idea how beautiful this country is...!

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