Bikepacking Sweden 2021

This was one week of bikepacking through the mindblowing nature of beautiful Sweden.

I took my Specialized Diverge, packed with the bare essentials, and went by train to Helsingør and right on to the ferry to Helsingborg. The feeling of rolling off the ferry and just pushing the pedals into adventure was so good. A great trip was waiting and I was free, just like I wanted to be!

I drove a mix of quiet tarmac roads and especially even more quiet gravelroads and forest tracks. Mostly I was on a not too intensive cruiser speed mode and just enjoyed nature with the relaxing sound of crispering gravel under my tyres and, when steep hills came up, my increased breathing off course.

Distances where very doable and most of the days I set up my camp in the early afternoon, so I had quite some time for a swim, a sauna, just some lingering, contemplating life and preparing fire for the night.

Shelter places were my main campsites this week. Really great for bikepacking! Just put your tent next to the wooden shelter (or don't and put your sleeping mat in the shelter off course) and have some extra comfort when rain comes down or when you want some extra shade. Very handy; the shelters are very well traceable with Komoot. Besides the shelters I took a couple of campsites that were very nice located as well and gave the opportunity of a shower, a sauna and recharging the powerbank.

I really can't think of a better country for gravel bikepacking than Sweden. The nature, the mystical forests, the lakes, the endless gravel roads, the many shelters, the "allemansrätten", the friendly people, the peacefull houses in the middle of nowhere and the delicious sweet bakery snacks.
Just awesome! Sweden, see you soon! I hope.My setup (in short):
Bike: Specialized Diverge Carbon with a mix of 105 and GRX 810
Wheels/tyres: Ere Research Tenaci GR20 with Ere Research Tenaci TLR 44 and Tubolight S foam inserts
Bags: Topeak Backloader (with Woho Saddle Bag Stabilizer), Topeak Frontloader (with Ortlieb Drybag PS10), Apidura Expedition Full Frame Pack, Apidura Racing Bolt-on Top Tube Pack and Ortlieb Gravel Pack (with a Tubus Tara Lowrider)
Tent: Naturehike Cloud Up Series 3P 20D