Having achieved widespread popularity in central Europe, snowshoeing is just beginning to become known in the UK, as a growing number of people discover how liberating it is to be able to step off the beaten (or ploughed) track and strike out into the white wilderness.
This February I had the chance to join our local guide Torkel for four days of snowshoeing and winter camping in the silent expanses of Vålådalen Nature Reserve in western Sweden.
I had planned to write a short account of the tour (which was hugely enjoyable by the way) but by the time I finished it ran to several pages and became rather too long for a Community of Sweden story. Precisely the same thing happened with my recent story on dog sledding in Sweden, which turned out even longer – it seems I just can’t control myself.
Anyway, if you would like to read an Englishman’s account of four days wandering in the remote wilderness of the Jämtland mountains, the article is now published in two parts on our Wild Sweden blog at http://naturetravels.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/snowshoeing-in-sweden-%e2%80%93-four-days-of-fresh-tracks-part-1/
