Today me and my family got home from our hike to and from Vålådalsstugorna in northern Sweden. From where we parked the car it was slightly less than 20 kilometers to the station. We began the hike yesterday and it started to rain early on but it cleared up quickly and we had great weather for the better part of the trip.

On the way up we met a woman with a huge reindeer antler sticking out of her backpack. She told us that she had found it while walking and had been carrying it since one day ago. After that I started looking around for antlers while walking but I never found any. That may be because it's a somewhat popular trail and that any antlers have therefore already been found.

On the way back, we saw a lagopus. We came pretty close to it before it started fleeing and that's when we noticed it. It didn't run very far even then so I was able to bring out my binoculars and take a picture through them.