I was recently on a trekking trip with my dad. We had decided that we wanted to do a trip together where we would bring all we needed with us on the trip. A kind of survival trip but we were also realists, so it should not be too advanced. So on such a trip we would bring; sleeping bags, tent, trangia, food, water, clothes, camping gear. So Denmark does not invite to this kind of survival trip where you feel like you are in the forest, in natures element.
However, such a thing exists just 2 hours of train ride away from Copenhagen! They are all marked routes, meaning that there is an orange square on trees or an orange arrow guiding you along the route and they are there just enough so you do not get lost only a couple of times but not so much that you will get tired of seeing them.
Sofie had given me a popup tent as a Christmas present and hence now the promised adventure. Walking with all gear was then not new but we did not know exactly what to expect.
In Sweden the term "Allemannsretten", or freedom to roam, means that you are allowed to take shelter on public land for a short period, something that is not common in or even allowed in all countries, so our plan was to find places along the route to stay whenever we were tired or found a good spot.
However, the first surprise was there were remarkably few places where one wanted to setup shelter for the night. All the trekking routes have water posts along it, which is immensely important. Trekking more than one day in the "wild", knowing where the next time you can get water becomes the defining matter. Carrying water is also important if you do not want to sleep directly at a water post.
