Kategori: härjedalen
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Somehow I totally managed to mess up my holiday planning for the summer so that I didn’t have any chance to drive to the cabin just for the weekend, until now. It’s a 3.5 hr drive so it’s not a good idea to drive in on Saturday morning and back on Sunday evening, there would…
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Last night when I checked the weather forecast, it said it would be part sunny with chance of showers. So I woke up with high expectations, was met with grey skies and during breakfast, rain. Ok then, showers started earlier than I anticipated. I packed my gear and drove to Rockvallen, knowing that it would…
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I slept for 10 hours. 10 hours! The last time it happened I was jet-lagged after 32 hours without sleep, coming back from Canada. I should’ve learned from my vacation in March. I can’t push myself physically every day, I just don’t have the condition for it and at some point my body will call…
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The weather is getting warmer by now but it’s still overcast, so I thought I would use the light on flowers and waterfalls. The best location for doing both on one trip is Silverfallet in Skärkdalen. The path to the falls passes through some rich mires with many different orchids and other special flora. But…
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Flatruet is a long plateau in an east-west direction with Messlingen lying at the foot of it in the south-east. There are some peaks rising from Flatruet, Ruändan is where the plateau ”ends” in the east and in the middle there’s a few other peaks. Today’s target was to conquer one of those middle peaks,…
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I was running out of paint so I drove to Funäsdalen to get some more. Since it feels a bit wasteful to drive all the way there just to get paint, I then drove to Bruksvallarna to do a small hike. To Kariknallen, which has a season opening today… gotta have a waffle! It turned…
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I took the bike to the trailhead to Öjevallen about 4 km west from Messlingen. Left the bike there and hiked up to Öjevallen and found that there’s a path going towards the Torrgraven ravine so that was easy. Except, when I got to the ravine the sign said Storbäckengraven. Hmm. Last year when I…
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The Swedish have a nice expression for something that looks like shit. Det ser förjävligt ut. That’s the expression I want to use now. I painted 1.5 walls of the cabin, and they look förjävligt. The thing is, I’m not using conventional paint. I use iron sulphate powder which is mixed with water and then…
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I need to paint the cabin so the plan was to drive to Funäsdalen and get the paint and while there, use the Internet access to update the blog. And then in the afternoon take the toll road up to Svansjökläppen and hike to Vättafjället. First problem. Can’t make the frekkin’ network to work. Using…
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Having talked about the bicycle for approach trips, I put the words into action and pedalled down to the Mittån delta where the river flows into the Messlingen lake. My pack was borderline too heavy to feel comfortable while sitting on the saddle but it’s just over 6 km so not a major issue. The…