{"id":13749,"date":"2020-10-18T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T17:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13749"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T18:06:01","slug":"daily_2104_-_kinnekulleleden_day_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/daily_2104_-_kinnekulleleden_day_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2104 – Kinnekulleleden, day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nG\u00f6ss\u00e4ter to R\u00e5b\u00e4ck station, 11 km.<\/p>\n

Following the familiar pattern: wake shortly after 7 as the sun comes up, pack, walk. Stop for breakfast when the sun is properly up and I am properly hungry.<\/p>\n

The morning was sunny but very windy. I could see on the map that the path would take me to the coast of lake V\u00e4nern around mid-morning, where I would meet the full force of the westerly wind. Breakfasting in that wind would be cold and unpleasant. I kept looking for a place to stop more and more urgently as I got closer to the lake, but it was all forest everywhere, and the sun was not high enough yet to reach down between the trees.
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\nFinally just half a kilometre short of the lake I came across the perfect place: a large, flat meadow\/field thing, wide enough that the sun reached halfway down the trees on the western side. It took a while for the sunlight to get all the way down to me at the bottom of those trees. But I have loads of time today, so I could wait. For planning purposes I counted today as a half-day, but since my train leaves late in the afternoon, I have almost a full day to spend on half a day’s worth of walking.
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\nOnwards to lake V\u00e4nern, and here it was windy indeed. In a different season, on a different day, perhaps the beaches would have been inviting. Today I was not at all sad when the path turned away from the lake shore again.<\/p>\n

The Kinnekulleleden path then passed through the grounds of another manor, with an impressive manor house, stables, tennis courts and so on. Apparently this place is owned and inhabited by people with serious money – the kind who take a drive on a Sunday morning in what looked to me like a 1960s Rolls Royce.
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\nAfter some zig-zagging through a hilly forest, I came to a large quarry. Not for the first time I was struck by how well-planned this hiking path is. The path proper carefully avoided the less pretty end of the quarry with abandoned industrial equipment (which I only saw because I was curious about what was being hidden from me) but made sure I got a good view of the picturesque end with its large lake.
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\nLooking at the map, I realized I was about to run out of path before I’d run out of time, so I decided to even things out. It was perhaps a bit early for lunch but I stopped anyway when I came to a suitable open place. I’d rather hang around for a while here in the grass and sit and read in the sun, than hang around at the train station all afternoon. With a two-hour breakfast and two-hour lunch, this was my most leisurely hiking day yet. A real Sunday outing. I’m glad I had my Kindle with plenty of good books to read!
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\nR\u00e5b\u00e4ck station is a small one. The station building is now a residential one, and the part that actually functions as a station looks more like a bus stop than what a train station is supposed to look like in my mind. A platform, a sign on a post, a small shelter. Also a very nice, solid wooden bench, which I dragged into the sun and then gladly used.
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\nR\u00e5b\u00e4ck is a request stop, so the station’s most important feature was a yellow circular sign for flagging down the train. Here I’ve turned the sign to face the train’s direction to request a stop. When the train stopped, I turned it back before boarding.
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