This guided tour is a full day hike with the goal to get up above the tree-line in Abisko valley.
Along the way on the hiking trails in Abisko we will pass trough the carracteristic small hills called nabbar wich are remnants from the melitings of the ice sheet during the ice age. These nabbar provides for some spectacular viewpoints over the valley and the mountains. During the hike you will also discover the shifting in vegetation from the lusch birch forest close to the village, to the smal, resiliant and wind-affected plants above the tree-line.
By mid-day we will take a brake for some lunch and some rest before we head back towards the village again. Hopefully alot closer to Lapporten or Tjuonavagge wich is a large and very characteristic U-valley that was formed during the ice age and is one of Sweden’s most famous mountain formations.
Besides Lapporten you vill be able to come closer to som more peaks in the Abisko-alps as well as some offering places that are an importat part of Sapmi cultural history. In the west you will have a great overview over the north part of Abisko Nationalpark and Swedens bigest mountain-lake, Torneträsk.
Because it is unusually dry and calcareous for being a mountain terrain in Abisko, the area is sometimes called an Arctic desert, and as such there is a rich mountain flora here where several unusual and protected species thrive. Abisko also has a rich wildlife, Moose, hare, wolverine, lemming, stoat, grey heron, reindeer, fox and even lynx have been seen. Several bird species also thrive in the area. Valley ptarmigan, mountain buzzard, kestrel, mountain ibis, tawny owl, short-eared owl, blue jay, grey siskin and snow sparrow are possible to see. Many ornithologists are also here in the area to see northern warblers which have nesting sites in the Abisko Valley.
