Kategori: funäsfjällen
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Winter is still holding us in an iron grip. It was -33°C this morning, which to my recollection is the coldest I’ve experienced in the middle of March. The sun does an excellent job in warming up the air, but the temperature plummets again as the sun goes down. When I go for my after-work walk…
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I just went skiing, no photographic ambitions because the sun was starting to fade out behind some thin clouds preceding a snow front that will come in tonight. But when I got up to the corner where the Anåfjället trail branches to the mountain, I discovered that not only had they prepared the trail above…
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This is the kind of a day that you wait for all winter long. Just below zero, sunny, no wind, and some fresh new powder glistening on the endless white landscape. Skiing never feels as good as it does on these days!
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”You will always come down, but…”, he said as he was reluctantly selling me a one-way ticket on the gondola up to Funäsdalsberget yesterday. He didn’t have a lot of faith in my skills to come down the mountain on cross country skis, even when I told him I would follow the snow mobile trail.…
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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…