Today, I joined the Meetup group again for a hike to Saltsjöbaden (pronounced as 'salt-hwei-ba-deng'). We met at Henriksdal train station at 9am. It was a 18.6km walk from Nacka till Saltsjöbaden. We took the train back at Saltsjöbaden station at 3.15pm. It was 8 degrees and it went up till 11 degrees. I did not want to take any chances and wore a down jacket and my hiking jacket. I sweated under those layers but at least, I did not freeze.
We hiked up a few slopes and although it was tiring initially, but I got the hang of it after a few warm-up sessions with the slopes.
We saw two deer too. They were just staring back at us. I am sure they are used to seeing many humans.
Our first pit stop by one of the many lakes that we stopped by.
Lunch stop. I had 2 hard-boiled eggs.
We had a dog on our hike too. She is so active and full of energy!
Lastly, we stopped for fika at the cafe located in Saltsjöbaden. I did not buy anything. I enjoyed the conversation with the group.
For the second time in many hikes (15 hikes and 4 outdoor activities, I just counted) I have joined with Meetup, I exchanged contact numbers with one of the participants (I exchanged number once with a participant and we lost contact after a while), tried another's coffee (I tried once a Singaporean lady's coffee because she brought coffee from Malaysia) and I got a muffin. I even held conversations with others during my entire hike. It feels like the good old times in my hikes in Malaysia where we shared stuff, conversed, laughed and exchanged contacts. I guess an outlier can happen occasionally. Haha!
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