Kategori: snö
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Easter is a bit late this year, but there’s plenty of snow left in the mountains and the weather forecast is looking good. It didn’t start off too well though, it was overcast and a bit windy so I didn’t have any ambitions to reach the tundra today and settled with following one of the…
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My heart sank when I got up. The wind was really bad, even worse than yesterday. I couldn’t breath into the wind and the wind meter at the station indicated median winds of 13-17 m/s. That’s no joke! We really didn’t feel like repeating yesterday’s experience, even if this time it would be a shorter…
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We had been looking at the weather forecast with some concerns because it looked like it wouldn’t get nice at all this week. Our original plan was to ski from Gåsen to Sylarna and then back to Helags, but with the atrocious weather, there was no point in going to Sylarna. For one thing, there…
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The day dawned considerably better than yesterday ended, so we could continue our expedition. There was still some wind, but no snowfall and the sun was almost breaking out on some occasions. It was only 15 km to the Gåsen mountain cabin so it felt like an easy match after the heavy winds on Saturday…
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As I said, we really didn’t have the weather with us. After a relatively calm day, the wind picked up last night and it started snowing, so we were firmly stuck in the Vålåstugan mountain cabin. It was an easy decision to stay though, we figured that we needed to rest after two hard days…
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It was a promising morning, I could see the peak of Helags! We set out as early as we could, because we had a long trip ahead of us – 24 km to the Vålåstugan mountain cabin. The weather wasn’t half bad and by lunchtime we were skiing in sunshine. The weather was quite local…
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Finally it’s here! The Expedition. The weather forecast wasn’t exactly cheerful, but no disaster either. We drove to Ljungdalen in the morning, had a pizza for lunch and then set on the skis. If you follow the summer trail (which you can do in the winter, I mean it’s snow everywhere) from Kläppen, half of…
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I was supposed to drive to Lofsdalen today, I had everything prepared and packed. It had been snowing at night and the landscape looked very nice in the morning and I felt half sorry that I was turning my back on this but there just simply wasn’t enough snow to ski on in Föne so…
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The main reason I came to cabin this early in the season (the season being the late winter) was to try out backcountry ski boots which I will need for the trip in March. I drove to Bruksvallarna and rented boots and skis and then took on the trail up towards Kariknallen. I didn’t like…
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The ski boot curse struck again. I used a Compeed to protect the spot that I thought might be chafing and went skiing and it felt very good. But by the time I got to Forsänget, I felt an all too familiar sting in my left foot. I took off the boot and inspected the…