Kategori: fjäll
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All the plant life is happy about the rain, and the sunny days ahead will surely transform the landscape soon. And the pollen season has started – I don’t have to look at the birches to know it, it’s my itching nose that’s a dead giveaway. I started eating antihistamins a couple of weeks ago to build…
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It has been raining for two days and it shows – the river is higher now than at the snowmelt peak. But today there was a chance of a sunny break so I headed to Ånnfjället. I needed a mountain which I could access without having to do a long trek through the forest, which…
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The weather is much cooler now and it doesn’t look like the snow has melted very much on Anåfjället. The river is also past its peak, the water level sank a bit and has been holding steady for a couple of days. Yesterday I visited Livsäterån. There’s no ice, but the creek is lined with…
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Say bye bye to the warm weather. This morning Ånnfjället looked a lot more pale than in the picture but there was just enough sunshine during the day to melt the new powder. It was chilly when I went cycling, and it wasn’t just me gotten used to the warm weather – it was snowing when…
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The water keeps rising. I’m wondering if it’s possible that this big boulder in the middle of the river can get completely covered.
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May appears to be a month when everything is possible – I’ve been skiing, walking and cycling so far, and now I can add snowshoeing and hiking to the list. That’s really all the outdoors activities I ever do (after I point blank refused to run any more, because I hate it and can’t get…
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The warm weather has arrived! The snow and ice are disappearing fast, I’ve been checking out some rocks in the river and the water level has risen at least 5 cm since this morning – one of my marker rocks is under water now. While I wait for the small forest roads to become passable,…
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That just happened. I was skiing in May, first time I’ve ever done it! And it wasn’t just a small nominal loop, but a proper 20K trip from Bruksvallarna to Djupdalsvallen. Today was the last time of the season that they prepare the tracks and the weather forecast says that the temperatures will now go…
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I thought yesterday was great. Well, today was better! This post-season season is new to me and honestly, it’s well worth the long and cold winter! Which, by the way, didn’t feel very long, and wasn’t very cold either. Apart from those few weeks in January when my car broke. But let’s not dwell on that… I…
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The season officially ends this weekend. The tourists will go home and finding parking space in front of ICA will be easy again. And the mountains, they will be all ours! We had some more snow yesterday and when the sun came out today, it revealed gloriously white mountains all around. It really is a stunning…