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Packing for the Arctic Circle Trail
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Preparing to hike Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail? Here are some useful tips for packing and planning your trek based on my Greenland adventure in August 2015.
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This post is part of a series. ► Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | is possible in the winter, it’s far more difficult & technical. The primary hiking season is from June to September when the trail is free of snow.
Greenland has a mosquito problem. Swarms can be downright maddening from June until mid August when the first frost finally kills them off. I started hiking August 12th and had to break out my mosquito head net a few times.
The trail is extremely muddy & boggy in June after the snow melts with river crossings becoming deeper and more dangerous. In September, the risk of snow storms is higher as winter begins.
In August, the air temperature fluctuated between 60’s (F) in the day to 30’s (F) at night, with one afternoon of snow flurries.
Over the 10 days I was on the trail, I experienced steady rain for 3 of them.
Kangerlussuaq Airport
Flying To Greenland
Flying to Greenland is the most expensive part of this epic trekking adventure.
. The trail is marked with occasional rock cairns along the way, but there are a few places where you can still lose the trail, and in bad weather, the cairns aren’t always super visible.
In addition to the paper maps, I also packed my iPhone 6 with a instead. It allows you to boil water with a few different types of fuel.
Sure, I made due with cold food for 10 days anyway, but strong hot coffee and warm dinners have a wonderful way of re-energizing you on long-distance hikes. They were missed.
Guidebook & More Details
If you’re planning to hike the Arctic Circle Trail I highly recommend picking up the book Trekking In Greenland by Paddy Dillon.
It goes into far more detail than I can cover in a blog post, and it’s what I used to plan my own adventure. Good luck, and have fun! ★
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This post is part of a series. ► Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
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