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I have been planning to do skiing trips to the mountains all winter, but it just hasn’t come off until now. The weather forecast wasn’t the best possible, but I wasn’t going to let even that depress me. I can deal with overcast skies but not with warm temperatures, so it was now or never!…
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We managed the whole month without any degrees above freezing. It finally feels like a winter, so all the more regrettable that it very nearly rained today. It’s the beginning of the end for winter 2006/2007. The February weather data isn’t complete – I was away for a weekend, so two days’ observations are missing.…
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Some may call it a dull grey day, I call it Winter. A few degrees below, overcast, snow in the air and fresh snow on the ground. On with the skis, and out in the forest. I skiied about 17 km, which is probably the longest I’ve ever done (yeah fine it’s not much, but…
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I’m always looking for interesting snow formations to shoot. When the land is covered with snow, you’d expect it to be an easy task. Well it isn’t. Especially on a weekend like this, when the wind is blowing and the temperature rises dangerously close to zero. The pristine snowcover is ruined by snow falling down…
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Or Skiing, Shopping and Sightseeing Some weekend. I had two days off because my family (my parents, sis and her two kids) came to Sweden to celebrate my Dad’s 70th birthday. My mini-vacation started with a great day of skiing. New snow, suitably cold weather and sunshine – can winter get any better? Then I…
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The weekends just seem to drag by. Some would say that we had good weather, but I was rather disheartened. Zero degrees centigrade, high winds and sunshine is not my idea of ideal conditions – for photography anyway. The scenery is downright depressing in fact. Ugly snow, that’s the problem. Rather optimistically, I took the…
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Since I’m always talking about the weather, it’s time to put down some figures to back me up. I have started keeping a weather journal and will summarise the monthly weather here in the blog. The reports should be taken with a pinch of salt. There are many factors which contribute to the unreliability of…
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Another weekend has passed by, low on photography but high on outdoor activities. I skiied a loop – one I had not done before – yesterday, with camera in backbag but never taken out. And having thus gotten sick of skiing, I chose to walk today. I had a closer look at a couple of…
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As a child, the first star constellation I learned was the Big Dipper – I think if people know just one constellation here up north, then it’s the Big Dipper. After that, I learned Cassiopeia and then I was proud to find the Polar Star. I added more and more constellations to my casual astronomy…
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Now we’re talking! Snow, snow, snow, snow… and more snow! We haven’t seen this much since early November. I’ll take it. When I had made my way to Hembygdsgården, it looked like the weather would clear up and some blue sky started to appear between the clouds. But it was just a brief scare, because…