Kategori: skidor
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Guess what, it’s cold again. I did a late afternoon trip and by the time I was back at my car, it was sunset and -17°C and I was freezing. It’s hard to keep the internal heater on when you glide down 330m in altitude. But it was nice to get up there, I took…
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The other day I was watching ice hockey. I was simultaneously trying to listen to something else, so I muted hockey. When I stopped listening to that other thing and the game was still on mute, I noticed something strange – it was much easier to follow the play. I’ve always wondered how the commentators…
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The days are getting longer and definitely warmer, when the sun shows up like it did today. The only way to spend these days is on the mountain, so I put on my skis and started towards Ånnfjället. I was going to follow the prepared ski trail up, but when I passed the unmarked snowmobile…
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My skis are in the shop being repaired. The good skis, I should add. So I was stuck with the waxless hybrids and I didn’t get very far before I started thinking that maybe I should get those fancy new waxless skis with skin strips for grip. Because these existing waxless skis, they really are…
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We got a lot of new snow this week, and now it’s very cold again. Not too cold for a little bit of skiing though, which was all the more pleasant when there was almost no wind. I took off from Högsta Hållan towards Malmbäckstugan, at first I wondered why the trail was completely snowed…
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When the sun comes out, the mountains are glowing white and I just cannot get enough of the views. The snow has now fallen off the trees when temperatures went from -32°C on Monday morning to +2°C on Thursday, with hard winds in between, but that of course make no difference for the peaks. My…
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Went skiing today. I did Mittåkläppsspåret for the first time this winter, and I picked the right day for it – it was absolutely gorgeous. After a couple of km of skiing up the trail, the trees were covered in frost and/or snow (no snow on the trees down in the valley). With the sun…
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What a morning! I left well and early to catch the sunrise on Ånnfjället, but it wasn’t quite as straightforward as I had thought it would be. For starters, it was much colder than it was supposed to be, and for a brief moment I even considered cancelling. Skiing in -20°C is not entirely good…
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I did not want to go skiing. Crazy, but that’s really how I felt in the morning. I had to spend a good while convincing myself that I will like it if I just put the skis on and hit the snow. And I guess I was right about that, because at one point while…
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A new track popped up on the map this year. They are now preparing the trail between Fjällnäs and Svalåtjärnen, previously it’s only been a back country trail but now it’s prepared, and of course I just had to ski it. The only question was, how I’m going to arrange it… use the ski bus…