Kategori: norrland
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Time is catching up with me. I’ve always said that age is nothing but a number, you’re only as old as you feel, blah blah blah. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had to accept that my body does not agree with my head and it’s showing its real age. I hurt my right…
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Just like last spring, the roe deer are spending a lot of time in the fields around the house. I see them every day now, at most it was eight of them but in recent days the biggest group has consisted of six individuals. Sometimes it’s only two, sometimes three, so I’m not sure if we…
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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…
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I traded skiing for bird watching today. Great choice! I got to witness some drama and action, and got my best swan pictures to date as well. I used the same spot as last week and this time the swans didn’t mind me. There are more of them now, and they are too busy fighting each…
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The landscape is big and I’ve often marvelled at how little you see people up on the mountain when the parking lot at the trail head is full of cars. But then there are exceptions, of course. Like the Easter week, which is no doubt the busiest week up here when absolutely everyone who can,…
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After a very warm March which almost got me thinking that we’d have no snow left for Easter, we now have winter again. I woke up to a white landscape, even the trees were decorated! But even if the thermometer insisted that it was below freezing, the intense April sun only needed half a chance and the snow…
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Spring is on the way and it’s time to start keeping an eye out for the migratory birds. I took the Mega-Tamron out for a walk, I knew that there were swans in the open water in Ljusnedalssjön. I found two pairs of swans, a bit sad that there were no young birds, but then…
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It’s been very warm (as in, above freezing) lately and the snow is disappearing fast, but there’s plenty of it left for some great skiing today. I took the bus to Bruksvallarna and then skied to Funäsdalen via Andersborg, this is what we call the ”Solskensturen” (except that normally people finish in Tänndalen but I pushed…
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Should’ve checked the weather forecast beyond just looking at the sun symbol. I had a really mean head wind once I got out of the forest and I had to push myself even when going down a hill. But then when I was back in the forest with the wind on my back and skiing…
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Every autumn I check the full moon dates for the coming year. When I saw that the March full moon occurs on a Saturday, I made a plan to be somewhere nice for it, and decided on a backcountry skiing trip to the Fältjägaren mountain hut, which is less than 10 km straight south from…