Rybäckskojan
The place
Rybäckskojan ("Fish creek hut") in Härjedalen, Sveg/Vemdalen sector (southern Fjällen, central Sweden, Sweden), at a true altitude of ~600 m (record shows an erroneous 0 m), subarctic alpine plateau. Continuous Sweden Fjällen cluster (batches 240-363, 2 records in Härjedalen). STF hut (Svenska Turistföreningen, founded 1885, 300 huts, 300,000 members, modern-day Vikings outdoors) on a watercourse ("rybäck" = fish creek, native brown trout Salmo trutta + Arctic char Salvelinus alpinus + grayling Thymallus thymallus), subarctic taiga zone + Fulufjället National Park (385 km², established 2002 + Njupeskär waterfall, 93 m, Sweden's highest) + Sami people, southern Sami last tribe in SE, 500 people, 3 dialects, UNESCO critically endangered + semi-domesticated reindeer Rangifer tarandus, 250,000 in SE, 3,000 Sami herders carrying on ancestral nomadic tradition.
The setting
Härjedalen Sveg/Vemdalen southern Fjällen central Sweden Sweden altitude erroneous 0 m ~600 m real subarctic alpine plateau, continuous cluster batches 240-363 2 records Härjedalen, STF 1885 300 huts fish creek Salmo trutta/Salvelinus alpinus/Thymallus thymallus, subarctic taiga + Fulufjället NP 385 km² 2002 Njupeskär 93 m SE's highest + southern Sami last tribe in SE 500 people 3 dialects UNESCO critically endangered + Rangifer 250,000 SE 3,000 Sami ancestral nomadism.
