Kategori: Sverige
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The water level keeps rising in the river, but it’s not flooding. It’s barely higher than last summer’s peak after an intensive period of raining, but as you can see, there’s still plenty of snow on the mountains. And the warm weather continues! Yesterday I drove to Fjällnäs (for no reason really, just to waste…
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The warm weather has arrived! The snow and ice are disappearing fast, I’ve been checking out some rocks in the river and the water level has risen at least 5 cm since this morning – one of my marker rocks is under water now. While I wait for the small forest roads to become passable,…
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That just happened. I was skiing in May, first time I’ve ever done it! And it wasn’t just a small nominal loop, but a proper 20K trip from Bruksvallarna to Djupdalsvallen. Today was the last time of the season that they prepare the tracks and the weather forecast says that the temperatures will now go…
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When the cranes are not on the golf course, they are on the field behind my house. I counted about 40 from my living room window, but I can’t shoot them from this side of the field, the angle is all kinds of wrong. So I approached them from the other side and got surprisingly…
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I think I just solved the telephoto problem I’ve had with my Sony system. Sony’s cameras are far ahead of their lens selection and there’s two things that I’ve missed, a large aperture extreme wideangle for night photo, and a long telephoto. When Zeiss announced the Batis 2.8/18 a couple of weeks ago, it filled the wideangle…
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I thought yesterday was great. Well, today was better! This post-season season is new to me and honestly, it’s well worth the long and cold winter! Which, by the way, didn’t feel very long, and wasn’t very cold either. Apart from those few weeks in January when my car broke. But let’s not dwell on that… I…
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The season officially ends this weekend. The tourists will go home and finding parking space in front of ICA will be easy again. And the mountains, they will be all ours! We had some more snow yesterday and when the sun came out today, it revealed gloriously white mountains all around. It really is a stunning…
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We have a lot of roe deer around here, more than I ever saw in Föne. I’ve seen them regularly walk past the house and amazingly, they are not as shy here as they were in Föne. A few times I’ve come surprisingly close while walking or cycling on the driveway and the animals just look…
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I frikkin’ h a t e skate skiing. I’m trying hard to pretend I don’t, I keep talking about these small improvements, but when it comes down to it, please put me out of my misery and shoot me if you ever see me stand on skate skis again. I got up before sunrise today…
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Fabulous weekend! It is sunny today and it will be sunny tomorrow and in between there’s a cold night which creates a crust on the snow. I’ve never really tried crust skiing before so I wasn’t quite sure where to go, so I chose a compromise. I drove to Fjällnäs, where I could ski on the prepared…