Etikett: fjäll
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I’m going to Svalbard! And in order to that, I first had to get myself to Oslo Gardermoen to catch the flight. I took the scenic route via Rondane and when the Rondane road turned to rough gravel, I regretted my choice. The view wasn’t that good… especially having already seen it two years ago.…
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The last update from the Crane Watch: still incubating. I’m off to Svalbard tomorrow and by the time I get back, the crane babies have hatched for sure and the family will be long gone from the nest. But I hope I have some other animal pictures – bird or otherwise – to show when…
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I guess we can declare the waterfall season open as well! Now that most of the snow is gone, the water level in some creeks is already reduced to photogenic levels. Take Livsäterån for example, it closer to having too little water than too much. Even if there’s still thick patches of snow when you get…
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Exactly a year ago (plus a day) I moved to Ljusnedal. It was a rainy day and quite cool, and on the mountain it had snowed the previous night, so it was almost all white. What a difference! Today it was t-shirt weather, even when the sun insisted being behind a cloud half the day.…
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It has been raining for two days and it shows – the river is higher now than at the snowmelt peak. But today there was a chance of a sunny break so I headed to Ånnfjället. I needed a mountain which I could access without having to do a long trek through the forest, which…
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May appears to be a month when everything is possible – I’ve been skiing, walking and cycling so far, and now I can add snowshoeing and hiking to the list. That’s really all the outdoors activities I ever do (after I point blank refused to run any more, because I hate it and can’t get…
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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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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…