2016-06-28 60 17

Location

In a forest in Gävle, Sweden.

Participants

Expedition

I had just arrived in Gävle, and this hashpoint seemed too easy to not attempt. It was a bit late in the evening, but luckily at this time there's still a lot of sunlight at such high latitudes in June. So after checking into my hotel and eating dinner I drove towards the forest on the east side of town. The road leading into the forest was quite narrow and full of potholes, rather unlike most roads in this country. I had about 3km to go on this road, which took a long time because I had to avoid all the bumps and holes trying not to smash my bumpers into the gravel.

The hash turned out to be around 250m off the road, so I parked the car at the side of the road and walked into the forest. I had to navigate around puddles, fallen trees and thick bushes, but the main annoyance was the mosquitoes. There were huge swarms of them, and they couldn't believe their luck that such a large mammal came along who had forgotten to put on insect repellant... I quickly took a few pictures at the spot and then ran back to the car.

Two important observations:

Even though mosquitoes are quite slow, it's not possible to outrun them.
If you want to quickly squeeze yourself into a car to avoid mosquitoes entering with you, carrying a large backpack doesn't help.

Photos

The forest road.
The forest. About 250m ahead from here.
Almost there...
This is the spot.
GPS proof.
Lloyd posing at the hash, unfazed by the mosquitoes. Guess they don't like miniature horses.