Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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I had a day off yesterday and went skiing from Bruksvallarna to Fjällnäs in good company. 🙂 It is finally starting to look like it’s supposed to look like in March! Except of course that we have twice as much snow as we normally have in March. The spring will be very interesting to say…
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Another thing I’ve been meaning to do for years is to take the path from the north-eastern corner of the Anåfjället nordic ski trail and then ski around Gråstöten. And today I finally did that, I just really wanted to take a good look at Blåstöten which is mostly hidden when you view Anåfjället from…
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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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Exciting news this week, Sony is going to release A7 III! It greatly improves on the two biggest nags I have with my old A7: AF and battery life. Then I saw the price tag and got a hiccup. 24000 SEK! Holy cow. I bought my A7 for 11K three years ago, and the price…
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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…