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Hi! Thanks for watching and reaching out to me! I never get tired talking about Kungsleden! What a great experience! PostNord delivers to Jäckvik, Hemavan, and Abisko, but not to the other locations. Sending all 4 by PostNord would be wonderful! Each location specifies the delivery method they require. None of them offered both options. :( Jäckvik has a large supermarket with an aisle of freeze-dried meals. My box sent there wasn’t necessary. There’s no need really to send anything to your starting trailhead - unless something about your plans before the hike create the right scenario. There might be a good reason to send a box to your final trailhead. You don’t want to carry anything heavy for the whole trail if you don’t need to. Lots of people send themselves resupply boxes and it is a viable alternative. The video dropping next Friday talks about resupplying along the route. For me, I think I’ll start with 3-4 days supply then buy as needed in the cabins. The specifics seem to change from year to year, but approximately every other cabin sells resupply items. Everything you would want or need. Well, everything you need and most of what you might want. :). I carried 4-6 days supply the whole way and walked past shelves full of lightweight food every day. Are you planning to hike it this summer? Let me know if you have any questions I can help with.

​@@JonsDadHikes Thanks for the quick reply and the advice. I'm planning to do the Kungsleden this summer starting in Abisko (to Hemavan) in late July. If you don't mind, I had a few other questions: i) I've read a few times that travelling from outside of Sweden is an issue in terms of bringing in food products. I'm from Canada and my plan is to bring my resupply boxes with me on my flight and then, in Stockholm, before I head up to Abisko, sending them via PostNord or Bussgods. Did you have any (customs) issues with brining foods into Sweden? If so, any tips? ii) In your video you suggested treating your drinking water while on the trail. Almost every video I've watched claims that you don't need to do it - other than the stretch just west of Ammarnas - so why did you decide to do so? Just to be safe (which is the way I'm leaning)? iii) I found the address for the (one!) Bussgods service point in the Stockholm that you visited - thanks - but, as you said in your video, it's in a big building in an industrial area and it's not exactly clear where the office is. I tried to find it with street view on Google Maps, but no luck. Any chance you could give me a bit more information on where exactly the office is, e.g., SW corner of the building? My plan is to take a Uber there, but I don't expect the driver will know exactly where the service point is. iv) Related again to the Bussgods service point - do you have any suggestions as what I can do to help streamline things when I go to fill out the paperwork. I'm not Swedish and I don't know the language, nor (like you) will I have a Swedish friend with me, so any tips would be appreciated. Thanks again.

@@robertmullen5762 Good Morning! We spent yesterday watching the eclipse. What a great day. Did it go far enough into Canada that you got to see it? i) I took freeze dried meals, dehydrated meals, homemade beef jerky, and packaged food/snacks. I answered truthfully on all the forms that asked what I was carrying. I don't remember the specific questions for my Kungsleden trip, but I usually see questions about fresh meat or produce. No one ever asked me any questions or asked to see anything. To be complete though, I actually flew into Copenhagen and took the train over to Sweden. There shouldn't be any material difference between how the two countries handle food. As you point out, being from Canada you could have a different reception than I got, but I doubt it. Our countries are very similar when it comes to most things, including food processing. I came back to the States one time with smoked reindeer and the US let me back in with no problem after asking to see it. Flying into Toronto I had to eat a bag of those mini carrots in a big hurry because I never thought about them being a problem. :) Other than that, I've never had any problems. ii) I always filter my water AND treat it with tablets. Either should be sufficient if done alone. The backcountry isn't an operating room for cleanliness. I assume my hands, filter, and water bags have contaminated water on them and that the "clean" water actually has some bad stuff that got around the filter. The filter takes out most of the bad stuff and the dirt. Tablets make sure everything else has been killed. When I went to Indonesia I added a third step of a Steripen which screws up the DNA of an organisms so that they cannot reproduce. You do not want to get sick in Indonesia. They have some wicked diseases there. :) I was tempted to go without filtering or treating, but I have heard that people are getting sick on the more populated (southern) section of Kungsleden. The tablets are small and light. iii) True confession time. I goofed up the video recording at exactly that part where I showed how to find Bussgods on their website. In reality, I took the train from Copenhagen to Malmö and then I used a Bussgods location in Malmö, not in Stockholm. I used Stockholm as the video example because I expect most people will come to Sweden via Stockholm. The situation appears to be similar so I didn't re-record and re-edit to fix the hiccup. Even if you were asking about the location in Malmö, I wouldn't be able to help. My friend drove and I had no idea where we were - or - even where North/South were. I was confused. :) I looked at the Bussgods location in Stockholm. Bussgods is handled there by another company called BRING. That is actually a clue. It is also handled by BRING in Malmö. So, following the signs for BRING will get you close to Bussgods. The streets do not run North-South and East-West in this area. Looking at the Google Maps, it appears that Bussgods is located on the far western corner of the BRING building. This is at the corner of Elektravägen and Västberga Alle. Also, the building doesn't look really huge. If you get dropped off at the wrong place, carrying a couple boxes all the way around the block will be possible. iv) Sorry. Most of the people will speak English or will know someone who does. Our guy in Malmö was friendly, but it was clear he had real work to do and disappeared frequently for long times. Google Translate will help. I have an international package from my cell phone company (ATT) with unlimited data. I Googled as much as I wanted. I've also used Google Translate to talk with people. If you use your voice to enter short and simple phrases you can then press the little speaker to have Google read it out loud to them in their language. They can do the same thing on their phone or on yours. Scandinavia has had a lot of immigration in recent years so the person you are working with might speak their native language and Swedish, but not English. I hope this helps. My video coming out this Friday talks about resupplying along the trail. It cost about 350 SEK ($35 US) to send each box so I'm not convinced there is a significant cost savings when sending resupply boxes. Good Luck! Let me know how it goes. I would be interested in hearing about your experience. I'm working on the day-to-day hike videos now and it is bringing back lots of memories. Bob

@@JonsDadHikes Thanks for your reply and the answers to my questions. Yeah, we had a 90% eclipse here. Pretty impressive. All the best on your next hiking adventure.

Hi, My original reply was lost, I think. I will try again. I will write in English. I can only say "pizza," "spagetti," and "pasta" in Italian. I looked at the Bussgods.se website. It is only in Swedish. They do not have an English version. The sender's address does not have a place to enter a country name. All sending addresses must be in Sweden. I posted your question on a Facebook page for Kungsleden. No ideas yet. I also sent your question to Kund@bussgods.se. They responded immediately. Sorry - all boxes must be delivered to a Bussgods building in Sweden. Bussgods sent me this link: bussgods.se/privat/vara-tjanster/skicka-till-fjallstationer/ Translating: "skicka-till-fjällstationer" = "sending to mountain stations" It is all in Swedish, but maybe you can have it translated by Google. It gives more information about sending boxes to the mountain stations. It will not help you with this question. It might give you other valuable information though. Good Luck on your hike! Please let me know if you have more comments or questions! Bob

Someone from the Facebook group responded. I understand you will fly to Kiruna then probably take a train or bus to Abisko. They have taxis and Uber in Kiruna. There is a Bussgods location in Kiruna. Kiruna is an interesting city. It would be good to visit it. Their iron mine is causing the city to slowly collapse. They give tours about their plans to move the city. You could fly to Kiruna, take a couple hours to send the package, then continue north to Abisko. Would that fit into your plans? Note that they have strange hours to be open. Bussgods is located at: Maskinvägen 1 Kiruna Måndag - Fredag 07:00-09:00, 10:30-11:30, 13:15-14:15, 15:00-16:00 Lunch 11:30-12:30