{"id":10870,"date":"2018-09-25T22:57:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10870"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T18:07:36","slug":"daily_1373_-_jamtland_day_4_-_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/09\/25\/daily_1373_-_jamtland_day_4_-_down\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1373 &#8211; J\u00e4mtland, day 4 &#8211; down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1373_Jamtland_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nLunnd\u00f6rren to V\u00e5l\u00e5dalen, 12 km. Today was a short day because I had a bus to catch in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Heading north, mostly through forest and across small bogs. Steadily downhill all the day, which made for an easy walk. Quite soon I left winter behind me and was back in an autumn forest. Pleasant but quite unexciting after the past few days&#8217; dramatic experiences.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1373_Jamtland_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Near the end of my hike, where the trail crosses V\u00e5l\u00e5 river, I got to try an experimental ropeway. Normal bridges are expensive to build and risk getting damaged or swept away by ice and high waters. A ropeway hangs higher up and is therefore less likely to be caught in a flood.<\/p>\n<p>It worked well enough but dragging me and my pack and the &#8220;basket&#8221; across was hard work and took about ten times longer than walking across. Given a choice between this and a normal bridge, I&#8217;d rather walk, but if the choice is between this and wading then I&#8217;ll take the ropeway.<\/p>\n<p>Ropeway on the left, bridge on the right:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1373_Jamtland_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunnd\u00f6rren to V\u00e5l\u00e5dalen, 12 km. Today was a short day because I had a bus to catch in the afternoon. Heading north, mostly through forest and across small bogs. Steadily downhill all the day, which made for an easy walk. Quite soon I left winter behind me and was back in an autumn forest. Pleasant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,789,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-overnight-hikes","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10872,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions\/10872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}