Kategori: Sverige
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I can see Ånnfjället and Gråstöten from my kitchen window. As it was with Blåstöten last year, it has been annoying to see Gråstöten every time I look out the window, but not have been to the peak yet. I conquered Ånnfjället many years ago, in fact it was one of the first mountains I’ve…
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Had a friend for a visit for a couple of days, nice with company! As always when I have visitors who are not familiar with Funäsfjällen, the first place I take them is Djupdalsvallen. The idea was to go up Stor-Mittåkläppen so the waffles would be well deserved, but the weather had other ideas –…
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I found some mountain avens growing by the road in Ljusnedal. That’s not the right place for shooting them though, you have to go to the tundra instead! Which is what I did, I drove to Hamrafjället and walked through the flower meadows (which didn’t have any flowers yet) and up to the pass between…
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I’m trying to take different routes every time I do my evening walk. Yesterday I went to the gravel pit, more with the intention of finding the shortcut to the waterfalls than anything else, but I got so much more – a real hotspot of flowers, and some of them quite exciting. Not all of these flowers…
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The season changed while I was gone – when I got home last night, I found that summer has come to the mountains as well! Now the trees are green and it’s nice and warm. And if I needed any more proof about the season, then I ate it today – I walked up to…
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What a wonderful week it has been! Who would have thought that I would enjoy Gotska Sandön more than Greenland? Because truthfully, that’s what I feel. Greenland was … icebergs and tundra and chained dogs. Gotska Sandön is beaches, dunes, forests, flowers, trees, and a total immersion in the surroundings. Greenland remained distant – I got…
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It was going to be a long walk ahead today, and I wanted to be carrying as little as possible. So I only took one lens per camera (wideangle with Sony and macro with Canon), no tripod and I even left an extra layer of clothes behind me. Which I came to regret quite soon,…
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When you walk in the pine forest, the forest floor is mostly covered in heather which is growing about twice as tall as the heather we have at home. But then in some places there are these bright green spots of moss and cowberries and we heard an explanation to this today. Some years ago,…
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One thing there’s not so much of on Gotska Sandön is water. Yes, it’s an island and it’s surrounded by water, but I mean sweet water – there’s not a puddle of water to be seen, unless it’s man-made. Until today of course, when it started raining. And then pouring. I missed out on noting…
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Even though this is a course, there’s no pressure – the idea is quite simply to walk around the island and discover the plant life and hopefully pick up some pointers to use at home during botanical excursions. I have a tendency to overlook some ”uninteresting” plants but there’s no such thing here! We started by…