Kategori: fjäll
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I frikkin’ h a t e skate skiing. I’m trying hard to pretend I don’t, I keep talking about these small improvements, but when it comes down to it, please put me out of my misery and shoot me if you ever see me stand on skate skis again. I got up before sunrise today…
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Fabulous weekend! It is sunny today and it will be sunny tomorrow and in between there’s a cold night which creates a crust on the snow. I’ve never really tried crust skiing before so I wasn’t quite sure where to go, so I chose a compromise. I drove to Fjällnäs, where I could ski on the prepared…
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This is the kind of day we should have had during the Easter (no, I still can’t let that go). Warm sunshine and blue sky, just inviting me to ski up to the mountain. Going uphill in the afternoon sun left no doubts about the season – it was warm, very warm. I took off…
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Last week I swore that I wouldn’t do any more skate skiing unless it’s on the crusty snow on the early mornings of late April after a cold night. Today it was a few degrees above crusty, with a bit of rain in the air, and I went skate skiing. My hybrids don’t glide and…
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One of my big goals this winter was to ski the Mittåkläppen Nordic Ski track from Bruksvallarna. I’ve already done the short portion of it from Ramundberget, because even if it’s really steep at first, it’s not very long and can conveniently be combined with the Djupdalsvallen loop. But today I did it from Bruksvallarna, including…
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I need a plan. If I don’t have a plan for the next day when I go to bed, I will wake up without a plan and the day is pretty much ruined already. Last night, I didn’t make a plan. This morning, I woke up without a plan. So I spent the whole morning on…
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This is the first time in many years that I’m not going to the mountains for Easter. Because, I’m already here! So the only planning I needed to do was to decide the direction where to ski. And which skis to take. I tested my new skis at home first but despite a generous layer of…
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It’s been a very warm March so far, and the past couple of days it’s been extremely warm. Combine the warm front with a blazing sun and the effects are immediate – just look at all the dark patches. Only the highest peak of Ånnfjället is still completely covered in snow but the rest of…
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The stuff that winter dreams are made of! Mild temperatures and sunshine up on my favourite mountain. I didn’t even miss my skis while snowshoeing on Ånnfjället yesterday! I was a bit worried at first that the sky would be fouled up by contrails and the thin high cloud that was partly covering the sun.…
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The problem with slipping skis that I mentioned in the last post, that’s solved. It was just a bad job in the shop, because as soon as I got expert help, the skis were fine and my technique is not to blame either. The bad news is that my body doesn’t seem to be able to…