2021 and the Covid pandemic is still with us. My big plan for hiking the GR10 is still on ice so this year is going to be a plan B. Something stretching here in Sweden... hiking Orangebandet - doing the full 280km length of Bergslagsleden.
Compared to the GR10 it's not that hilly but it is fairly wild with relatively few facilities and towns on the route. Food in particular looks to be a challenge with few opportunities to restock en route and even those that are there are two or more kilometers off route.
Water is probaly easier, with one or more sources on each stage plus the possibility to use lake water.
There are wind shelters on each leg and hostels and similar at several of the leg ends, so in principle you can hike without carrying a shelter. But for flexibility I plan to take a tarp, not least as a way to practice different set ups with the GR10 in mind.
I hope to have company for the first week but the latter part will be solo and travelling light.
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