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Lake Tärnasjö Tärnasjö Lake largest. the is hectares, 2000 around at juktan, coniferous forests of Vindelfjällen boast an exclusive fauna, fauna, exclusive an boast Vindelfjällen of forests coniferous Always obtain a map and compass. and map a obtain Always above the tree-line from the low, the the low, the from tree-line the above flora richest places are along river Vindelån. At Framaksel, Framaksel, At Vindelån. river along are places richest flora Vindel is a popular area for trekking, skiing, skiing, trekking, for area popular a is fjällen - Överst Lake Vindelfjällen. in lakes of hundreds are here T the River Juktån you can also find centuries-old pines. The The pines. centuries-old find also can you Juktån River the long as you are well equipped you will be guaranteed an enjoyable trip. trip. enjoyable an guaranteed be will you equipped well are you as long As summer, you can follow the zonation zonation the follow can you summer, terbotten. In the eastern parts of the nature reserve the the reserve nature the of parts eastern the In terbotten. Väs Vindelfjällen Nature Reserve and its surroundings have a lot to offer. offer. to lot a have surroundings its and Reserve Nature Vindelfjällen – Överst Juktan and Lake Tärnasjö. Today Today Tärnasjö. Lake and Juktan Överst Tjulträsk, are impressive waterfalls and giant potholes. giant and waterfalls impressive are is common. Along Along common. is abies) (Picea bäcksdalen, Norway Spruce Spruce Norway bäcksdalen, WATE – drink and enjoy the pure, clean water. Touring the mountains mountains the Touring water. clean pure, the enjoy and drink – R its of 1500–1768 metres. During During metres. 1500–1768 of its summ an orchid only known in four localities in the world, all in in all world, the in localities four in known only orchid an careful traces in the land around Vindelådalen, Lake Lake Vindelådalen, around land the in traces careful Where it runs down from Artfjället in Tängvattsdalen, there there Tängvattsdalen, in Artfjället from down runs it Where - Giersts and Matsorliden Juktådalen, Kirjesålandet, In forests. off due to reindeer heard migration. heard reindeer to due off metres above sea level, the high mountains rise to to rise mountains high the level, sea above metres , , runei Gymnadenia most rare flower, “Brudkullan” “Brudkullan” flower, rare most county’s or perhaps 250 generations, people have left behind behind left have people generations, 250 perhaps or F Lill-Tjulträsket. Another interesting stream is Rutjebäcken. Rutjebäcken. is stream interesting Another Lill-Tjulträsket. of the Eurasian taiga, lie the remaining pristine Scandinavian Scandinavian pristine remaining the lie taiga, Eurasian the of regulations apply in the area you plan to visit. As sections might be closed closed be might sections As visit. to plan you area the in apply regulations the foot of Norra Storfjället. From the valley floors, at 500–600 500–600 at floors, valley the From Storfjället. Norra of foot the botten botten Brandsfjället. In Rödingsnäset you can find Väster find can you Rödingsnäset In Brandsfjället. BD16, show the snowmobile trails within the reserve. Find out which which out Find reserve. the within trails snowmobile the show BD16, ber the tales, the landscape is apparent. is landscape the tales, the ber lower part of Vindelådalen, and at Vuomejukke, west of Lake Lake of west Vuomejukke, at and Vindelådalen, of part lower forest, coniferous forests take over. Here, at the western outpost outpost western the at Here, over. take forests coniferous forest, to Hemavan along the Kungsleden Trail. The ‘Fjällkartan’ maps AC2 and and AC2 maps ‘Fjällkartan’ The Trail. Kungsleden the along Hemavan to Ammarnäs to Hemavan passes Lake Tärnasjön’s wide valley and and valley wide Tärnasjön’s Lake passes Hemavan to Ammarnäs are Fjällripfjället, Rödingsnäset, Gierravardo and southern southern and Gierravardo Rödingsnäset, Fjällripfjället, are - remem and names the know and traces, the understand amatic waterfalls can be seen at Guoletsbäcken, in the the in Guoletsbäcken, at seen be can waterfalls amatic Dr splendid sight for mountain visitors. Below the mountain birch birch mountain the Below visitors. mountain for sight splendid snowmobiles. You can drive through the entire reserve from Ammarnäs from reserve entire the through drive can You snowmobiles. The Kungsleden Trail is Vindelfjällen’s main artery. Its route from from route Its artery. main Vindelfjällen’s is Trail Kungsleden The are in bloom in mid of July. Hotspots for flower watchers watchers flower for Hotspots July. of mid in bloom in are S – Vindelfjällen offers several trails that are open to open are that trails several offers Vindelfjällen – S MOBILE W O N the landscape. For those who can interpret the signs and and signs the interpret can who those For landscape. the rivers in Vindelfjällen. in rivers are a a are septentrionale) (Aconitum Wolf’s-bane and alpina) bita Foxes has also been carried out for many years in Vindelfjällen. Vindelfjällen. in years many for out carried been also has Foxes Chamor chis alpine which are common. Most flowers flowers Most common. are which alpine chis and www.fjallsakerhetsradet.se/eng/ history. Traces of human activity are subtle and blend into into blend and subtle are activity human of Traces history. he Rivers Tärnaån and Juktån are two other important important other two are Juktån and Tärnaån Rivers he T (Cicer- Meado w birch forests, with Alpine Blue Sow-thistle Sow-thistle Blue Alpine with forests, birch w More information can be given at naturum visitors center and at at and center visitors naturum at given be can information More studied breeding birds in the area since 1963. Research on Arctic Arctic on Research 1963. since area the in birds breeding studied albida Pseudorchis scented small white orchid orchid white small as the vanilla vanilla the as is an adaptation over the millennia to the Arctic natural natural Arctic the to millennia the over adaptation an is long way from the mountains. the from way long grows only above the mean snow depth. snow mean the above only grows olivacea Parmelia on mountain safety, avalanche risk and the mountain weather. weather. mountain the and risk avalanche safety, mountain on (Lund University Vindel River Expedition) research team have have team research Expedition) River Vindel University (Lund There are among others approximatly 15 types of orchids such such orchids of types 15 approximatly others among are There in and around Vindelfjällen. Make sure you obtain up-to-date information up-to-date obtain you sure Make Vindelfjällen. around and in reserve: Gran, Ran and Ubmeje. Sámi cultural history history cultural Sámi Ubmeje. and Ran Gran, reserve: disperse their seeds in the river and can be found a a found be can and river the in seeds their disperse alpinus) form shoots higher than the winter snow surface. The lichen lichen The surface. snow winter the than higher shoots form SKII – There are many opportunities for different forms of skiing of forms different for opportunities many are There – G N Gavelin travelled here in 1896 to survey glaciers. The LUVRE LUVRE The glaciers. survey to 1896 in here travelled Gavelin aven heaths made up by a palette of beautiful mountain flowers. flowers. mountain beautiful of palette a by up made heaths aven There are three Sámi communities within the nature nature the within communities Sámi three are There (Astragalus (Astragalus Milk-vetch Alpine and sceptrum-carolinum) and willows seldom seldom willows and communis) (Juniperus is apparent.