Out walking again. I haven’t been doing any longer walks in the past few months and I need to get my legs used to being out all day again, so I can manage the upcoming annual ski tour in March.

Today’s walk was only around 10 or 11 km. The next section of Signature Trail Stockholm was a short one, which might otherwise have been disappointing, but my afternoon was blocked out for Spånga scout club’s annual general meeting so I didn’t have time for a full-day walk anyway.

The first couple of kilometres were pure transportation along an asphalted trail from Barkarby to Akalla. From there on the trail followed Igelbäcken brook along the open fields of southern Järvafältet. The path was very icy at times, but usually there was space to walk next to it.

South of Järvafältet the trail went into Ursvik forest with all its exercise trails. It’s very accessible and criss-crossed with paths in every direction, which is nice when you want to walk around at random, but somewhat inconvenient when trying to get from A to B. And there were no marking specifically for the Signature Trail. I had to keep looking at the digital map all the time.

The second section of the trail ended at a golf course, just like the first one, funnily enough. But a much less scenic one.