Autumn or is it Winter?

Red Pig was most excited about the proposed trip by hired car north west to Hemavan, the Swedish equivalent of Queenstown, NZ. This meant the opportunity to explore the countryside, see the high mountains (around 1200m so not enormous but nice enough and still with some snow patches), and most of all, delight in the autumn colours, which are really magnificent. The landscape is beautiful; forest, farms, lakes, rivers and streams and then of course the mountains, just waiting for some intrepid hiking. Wearing our own or borrowed gear we hiked up a mountain and along the top to a place called Laisaliden and up a huge roaring river that has sculpted out holes and what were called ‘canals’ instead of ‘channels’ due to a slip in translation. Overnight it snowed