{"id":14982,"date":"2021-10-12T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14982"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T18:05:35","slug":"daily_2457_-_kuststigen_day_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/10\/12\/daily_2457_-_kuststigen_day_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2457 &#8211; Kuststigen, day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e4llesdalen to Stenungsund, 13 km. Only part of today&#8217;s walk actually followed the Kuststigen trail &#8211; the rest was just to get me to a point where I could hop on a train back to Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2457_Kuststigen_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nA chilly, foggy morning, until the sun finally rose above the treetops and banished both the cold and the fog.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after breakfast I left the marked trail and made my own way south towards Stenungsund and its train station. I rather enjoyed this, because it gave me something to pay attention to. I mostly zig-zagged along small back roads right in sight of the large, numbered road and managed to stay away from that larger one all the way to the outskirts of Stenungsund.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2457_Kuststigen_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The online map for Kuststigen was most helpful here, because of its impressive level of detail. It&#8217;s a real topographical map, down to the level of individual buildings. In fact the map was consistently more useful than the trail markers these past four days. The blue-topped posts marking the trail were often hard to see: too far apart, hidden in bushes, tucked away behind some electrical cabinet, etc. The easiest way to see whether I was on the right track was to compare the shape of my trail in my tracking app to the shape of the trail on the official Kuststigen site. (What a contrast to S\u00f6rmslandsleden, where the physical markers are exemplary and the online maps suck.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2457_Kuststigen_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The north side of Stenungsund was truly boring to walk through. A straight, flat road past industrial estates. It was a relief to reach the train station.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this was one of my most boring hikes. I feel no particular desire to visit this trail again. Perhaps the rest of Kuststigen has more inspiring sections, but if that&#8217;s the case then I wish that the designers of this trail had not included these boring parts.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say these four days were wasted but they definitely didn&#8217;t deliver what I had hoped: beautiful views, long hours of meditative walking away from houses and roads and civilization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e4llesdalen to Stenungsund, 13 km. Only part of today&#8217;s walk actually followed the Kuststigen trail &#8211; the rest was just to get me to a point where I could hop on a train back to Stockholm. A chilly, foggy morning, until the sun finally rose above the treetops and banished both the cold and the [&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-14982","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\/14982","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=14982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14985,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14982\/revisions\/14985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}