Räkaklitt is a formiddable outlook mountain and has it's own cache on the summit.
Just below the top there have been two farmsteads earlier. The first person settling down here was Erik Ersson from Wästbacka in Knåda. He started growing crops here in the 1830s. In the early 1840s another new settler came here, Grips Olof Jonsson. He gave up however just a few years later. Then Sigrids Jonas Ericsson moved here from Knåda and continued the new settlement. Jonas Ericssons son in law Skanska Jonas Olsson from Edsbyn took over a few years later and lived here since 1880. Then he sold his farm to Mårten West, who had this time also was owner of Erik Ersssons farm.
Mårten West sold then his property in 1881 to the forest company Ljusen Woxna AB and the farmstead at Räkaklitt became a lease, Mårten became the first leasing tenant. His son Gustav took over the lease in 1927. In 1968 the company owning the property then, Bergvik Ala AB, decided to tear down and burn all the houses and side buildings. (Original text in Swedish by Edsbyns Museum / Ovanåkers Hembygdsförening).
Today you will still find the foundations of three houses, the foundations of the chimneys, an earth cellar and some smaller and larger objects if you search a bit. I find it fascinating how isolated people lived in those days, the modern gravel road that ends close by came first long after the farm had been abandoned. Children needed to walk to school in Stugslått and the path coming up from the lower parking is probably the old path to Edsbyn.