Kategori: fjäll
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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…
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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…