Troms

Door Troms lopen twee trajecten van Nordkalottleden. Het traject Björkliden (bij Abisko in Zweden) - Kilpisjärvi (in Finland) loopt door het nationaal park Øvre Dividal. Het traject Kilpisjärvi - Kautokeino gaat door nationaal park Reisa. Zie verder Zie verder de pagina Nordkalottleden

De route start ten zuiden van Harstad. BIj Pålnoviken sluit de route aan op Nordkallottleden.

Zie de website Vandringar i Norden van Gert Rietman og Janet Roelofs

Björkliden (Abisko)-Skibotn-Alta 1995

170 + 140 km
Troms, Finnmark
In 1995 volgde ik Nordkalottleden van Björkliden door het nationaal park Dividal naar Skibotn (170 km) en daarna vanaf Nordreisa (met taxi tot Saralev) verder door het nationaal park Reisa naar Alta (140 km). De tocht ging overwegend door Troms. Het laatste stuk door West-Finnmark.
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Kilpisjarvi - Kautokeino - Lemmenjoki 1997

180 + 160 km
Finnmark, Fins Lapland: Reisadalen (np)-Övre Anarjokka (np)/Lemmenjoki (np)
In 1997 heb ik het Nordkalottleden nogmaals gevolgd maar nu vanaf Kilpisjärvi naar Kautokeino (180 km) om enkele dagen in het nationaal park Reisa bij de Imofossen te kunnen vertoeven. Vanaf Kautokeino heb ik via Övre Anarjokka een doorsteek naar Lemmenjoki / Inari in Finland gemaakt (160 km).
Deze tocht ging dus door Troms, Finnmark en Lappi Lääni (Fins lapland).
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Ånderdalen (125 km2) op het eiland Senja ten westen van Finnsnes is typerend voor de natuur in de noordelijke Noorse kusttreek.

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Ånderdalen National Park presents the variation of northern Norway?s magnificent coastal landscape. There is a big difference between the scenery on the island?s sea-facing side and its land-facing side. The sea-facing side features saw-tooth peaks, narrow ridges and steep mountainsides. On the land-facing side, the terrain is gentler, more rounded and level. This difference is due to dissimilar bedrock and the action of the ice during the last Ice Age. On the land-facing side, the ice loomed over the landscape, scoured and ground down the soft types of rock, and left behind a landscape of rounded forms. On the sea-facing side, the ice did not reach the tops of the peaks so could not grind them down and leave them rounded like on the land-facing side.

Ånderdalen is easy to access from a number of access points, and like the rest of the isle of Senja, the area is receiving an increasing number of visitors in both summer and winter. In Ånderdalen, you can experience the simple joys of outdoor recreation, whether you prefer short single-day walks or long-distance hikes over several days. (bron: Norges nasjonalparker, 2022)

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Het nationale park Øvre Dividal (770 km2) is gesticht om een typisch noordelijk binnenland te beschermen. Het landschap bestaat uit een mengeling van dennen en berkenbos, hoge bergen, moerassen en meren. Het park kent een rijke flora. Ook leven hier de grote vier: beer, lynx, veelvraat en als dwaalgast de wolf, waarbij de veelvraat de boventoon voert. Door het park loopt de Nordkalottleden.

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Øvre Dividal National Park has a varied landscape with pine and birch forests, alpine mountains, lakes and marshes. Grand landscape formations provide insight into the ways in which the melting of the ice formed the land. The varied natural environment provides the basis for a rich alpine vegetation, rare fungi and lichens, and special insect species. Dividalen is a habitat for many of our big predators, and the Arctic fox mates and raises its young here. In the spring, the Swedish Sami move into the area. They follow the reindeers? natural migration westward in spring to their calving areas in the heart of the park.

Øvre Dividalen is well-suited for visits throughout the year. The pine forests are a good place to take children on a walk, whereas the high mountain areas in Dividalen have a harsh climate, and the distance between lodgings is long. In order to hike in those areas, you have to be an experienced outdoorsman or woman and know how to look after yourself in all kinds of weather. (bron: Norges nasjonalparken, 2022)

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Reisadalen (803 km2) bevat de meest noordelijke canyon. In de loop van vele duizenden jaren heeft de rivier Reisa een steil dal van bijna 300 meter diep uitgesleten. Langs de wanden storten watervallen naar beneden waarvan Mollisfossen met zijn 269 meter de hoogste is maar de 30 meter hoge Imofossen op afstand mooiste. Door het dal loopt de Nordkalottleden.

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Reisadalen valley extends from the Arctic Ocean coastline all the way to the Finnmarksvidda plateau in a varied, dramatic landscape. The Reisaelva river?s upstream areas make up Reisa National Park. This is one of Norway?s most important salmon rivers. The Arctic Trail runs along the riverbank, past traditional cabins and turf huts. Parts of this trail have been awarded ?Historic Hiking Route? status, thus bearing witness to the Reisadalen valley?s rich cultural history over many thousand years, from rock paintings via the extraction of pine tar from pine roots to the arrival of English lords on salmon fishing expeditions in the North of Norway.

Tributaries flowing from the plateau and the mountains make splendid waterfalls that plunge down to the Reisaelva river. The Mollis waterfall is the biggest and best known of these falls, with a total drop of 269 metres in three stages. Mountain lakes, waterfalls, lively rapids and deep still-flowing pools give the park lush summers and chalk-white winters.

Reindeer herding has been going on for a long time in the areas that currently comprise the national park. There is abundant evidence of ancient Sami habitation within and near the national park. Many thousand reindeer graze in the national park each year, and even more pass through it. (bron: Norges nasjonalparker, 2022)

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