Tours
Vita & Gröna Bandet
The White & Green Ribbon challenge invites adventurers to traverse the Scandinavian mountain range under their own power, from Grövelsjön to Treriksröset where Sweden, Norway, and Finland meet, or vice versa. The Ribbon's color indicates the season of the trek. Green ribbon for summer, and White ribbon for winter.The challenge is to complete the journey without long breaks or external aid, using non-motorized means of travel.
While not a competition, the challenge demands physical and mental strength, emphasizing safety and personal responsibility. Started in 1997 as part of the "Around Sweden expedition," the White & Green Ribbon aims to promote long mountain trips, highlight environmental and access issues, and celebrate the unique experiences of traversing the wilderness.
Etapp
Vita / Gröna
Don't have time to complete the full journey in one go but still want to experience the amazing adventure Vita & Gröna bandet is?
Experience the Swedish mountain range from Grövelsjön to Treriksröset in your own pace. Etapp allows you to divide the journey into different segments. Once all the stages are completed, you will form a complete Etapp-band.
Rules
Registration must be done as early as possible before the start and cannot be done afterwards. However, the start date can be adjusted up to the planned day of start. Start and finish at Grövelsjön or Treriksröset. At the start and finish the hand should be placed on the blue door at the Grövelsjön mountain station and at Treriksröset (the cairn).
The tour should be conducted along the mountain range.
The following points must be passed through or west of:
Torneträsk, eastern tip
Nikkaluokta
Saltoluokta
Jäckvik
Håkafot
Undersåker
With obvious environmental and nature consideration.
- According to the Swedish Right of Public Access and other applicable rules such as restrictions on crossing national borders. Littering, scribbling, violation of reserve rules lead to disqualification.
- By your own power. Sled dog, horse or kite-like, non-motorized aids are allowed, but will be registered as such.
- In its entirety, without interruption. Break due to illness/injury (of seriuos type) is approved, if the tour continues at the same place and without any unnecessary delay.
- Accommodation. Tents and/or huts. At the depots the walker/skier is free to use any available suite. It is permitted to be picked up at the depots for accommodation at another location and then return and continue at the same location where you left off.
- Without motorized appliance. The exception is boat transport that crosses mountain lakes. Where there are trails that are possible to hike and that run parallel to a lake, these trails should be used.
- For safety reasons, not as proof of implementation, an emergency transmitter is the only mandatory equipment required to carry out. With a satellite based InReach/SPOT/PLB (or equivalent) to carry out the tour as safely as possible. If you want others to be able to follow your journey (blue link in Tours on the go), you need to send us a link to your emergency transmitter. Not mandatory but more fun.
- The trip must be carried out with respectful and active environmental, natural and cultural consideration, where reindeer herding is also included as an important part. (HERE you get important information about the mountains as a cultural landscape and about the Swedish Right of Public Access).
- It is not allowed to begin the Green Ribbon after 15 of August, of safety reasons. (And, speeeking about safety, at the website Fjällsäkerhetsrådet there is a lot of valuable information for a safe trip!)
- At the finish line (or no later than two weeks after), the hiker MUST submit a report via the Diploma Form. There they describe i.a. start and finish dates, distance traveled (total number of km), etc.
- External support (e.g. transportation of food, equipment etc) may not be received. The depots may not be driven with snowmobile or carried out by anyone other than the ribboner on the mountain. But, it is okay to let someone send out boxes to depots during the trip to limit the lying time. If the depot can be reached with normal parcel deliveries.
- Food and equipment supplies to be sent out in advance may be sent by Bussgods, friends/acquaintances etc to places the hiker will pass, but they have to be picked up by the hiker him-/herself. The same goes for additional equipment supplements (e.g. gasoline and fresh food at depots), which therefore also must be arranged by the hiker him-/herself.
- The time of the trip is counted from date to date. Whole days, not hours.
- And REMEMBER – as a White or Green Ribboner you are an important ambassador for our shared responsibility for the mountains as the unique natural and cultural environment they are, and should be for future generations!
Registration
Registration for the Fjällfararnas White & Green Ribbon must be done as early as possible before the start and cannot be done afterwards. However, the start date can be adjusted up to the planned day of start.
The registration fee for Fjällfararnas White & Green Ribbon is 1800 SEK.
For those who have previously signed up and tried or completed one of the Ribbons, the registration fee is 1500 SEK as "Veteran".
As a "Fjällfarare/mountaineer" you choose whether your name should be shown on the website or not – you can if you for some reason want to remain anonymous. In that case, announce it at the same time as you submit your application.
Registration is personal. As couples, friends, etc, you each register your application and state "company".
The tour is carried out under your own responsibility, at your own risk.
If for some reason you cannot start, you have the right to postpone your registration for one year or to ask for a refund (50% of the amount). Communicate this as early as possible. Interruption or no start after the specified start date is considered to have started, which does not give the right to a postponed start or a refund.
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