Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.

- Cindy Ross

Route 6 - Skoved - Ullånger
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 6 - Skoved - Ullånger

After leaving Skoved, you are heading back into the forest, but on regular roadways rather than trails. You also pass a tiny homestead or hamlet with a couple of houses and the 64km sign, marking the midway point of the High Coast trail. There is no other sign of reaching the middle.

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Route 7 - Skuleberget to Skoved
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 7 - Skuleberget to Skoved

This trail, though listed as intermediate flew by, taking you through grasslands and forests, its pretty and quaint, but before you know it you’ve reached Skoved and are on the final section to Ullånger.

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Route 8 - Entré Syd to Skuleberget
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 8 - Entré Syd to Skuleberget

The south entrance is much like the north, with toilets, and sheltered seatings with a fire-pit and various rubbish bins. There is a view point back over the forest (or forward across what you will see if you are hiking north to south.

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Route 9 - Skuleskogens Nationalpark
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 9 - Skuleskogens Nationalpark

About one kilometre past the North Entrance is one of the few locations you are able to camp in the National Park. The right of roaming does not apply here. There was, but all accounts, a nicer place to camp another four kilometres further on, but by this point I’d been walking about 14 hours and was exhausted.

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Route 10 - Köpmanholmen to Entré Nord
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 10 - Köpmanholmen to Entré Nord

I missed this entire section, as my friend gave me a lift by boat to Köpmanholmen and then by car to Entré Nord. However, whilst there is some nice scenery at the tail end of route 11 that I missed, all of Route 10 is walking along the main roads through Köpmanholmen. One day I will come back and do the whole of the Höga Kusten trail, but when time is a premium, I advise you to skip it if you can.

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Route 11 - Sandlågan to Köpmanholmen
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 11 - Sandlågan to Köpmanholmen

Just past the connection of Route 12 and 11, my Turkish friend stopped at a campsite for some food and a break. Like me he had been walking since 5:30 am, but unlike me, he had taken the High Coast trail the whole way and so had had a tall hill to climb, that I’d missed by going along the coast through Paddal.

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Route 12 - Svedjeholmen to Sandlågan
Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw Hoga Kusten Sebastian Shaw

Route 12 - Svedjeholmen to Sandlågan

From here, I was back on the main trail and had made a friend—a Turkish video game developer who lived in Stockholm who was also walking the High Coast Trail. We ended up walking together for about two hours, it was a nice break from the silence, but I think we were both glad to go our separate ways eventually.

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