alnön

Take a long lunch and add the physical hour of the week and you get a short fast iceskatemoment of your life. Eriksdal-Hörningsholm-Gistaholmarna- to xxx-Eriksdal.The ice which was to thin at Saturday was thick enough at some areas today. Lots of areas with not thick enough ice also, from wind. Neither of us did bring a GPS today.
A really fast coffeebreak. The sun break through, two more days and we got longer days, but today it was over the treetops and we saw a Snowbow for second day in a row. Lovely hours!


Long shadows looks a little bit like an old cavepainting so I was playing around looking for a photomoment!

Navaren

Yesterdays snowfall stopped in time, so it was a tour around the lake today. It was about 2-3 cm of snow on top of the ice, and the ice were 1-2 cm thicker than yesterday. During the coffeebreak there were three singing Santa Claus coming from the forrest with glögg, (a Swedish form of sweet Glûhwein). When we started our way back a rainbow was appearing! Or mayby it´s called a Snowbow I don´t now for sure. I was in the lead, sometimes it was a little bit of wind against, but totally a lovely day outdoors.

Santa Claus:es

17th December

We went looking for ice to Alnön, we found really thin ice, only around 38 mm, some spots no ice at all. So we jumped in to the cars and drove to Holmsjön, someone had heard from a buddy that he´ve seen some nice ice. After 45 minutes when we arrived we found out that the buddy must have looked through a narrow tube. So once again we jumped into the cars and drove to lake Navaren. We parked and looked out to something that looked just like snow everywhere, well our glasses wasn´t strong enough, after about 150 meters out at the lake we had nice black ice. It was about 6 cm, someplaces around 5 cm. In the middle of the lake we had a big area with open water.
We skated around 20 km and took one coffeebreak, when we turned back again it started to snow..;-( For the purpose iceskating it´s not so funny with snow on the ice, it´s hard and sometimes impossible to see were it´s thinner ice. On our way back we stopped at a house in the middle of nowhere and asked if we could call some hours later to get a snowweatherforecast. And we did get a good one with positive skateweather.

Lonely riders in the outback, riding into the sunset...:-)

Pictures

This post is only for updating with som pictures from the latest days out.

From the 10th of December

I didn´t feel like taking any pictures this day, at last I took one from the bridge were we drank our coffee by the University.


From the 4th of December

At Skälsjön we saw a track from an animal, it´s not dog, it´s not fox... so it can be either wolf or bobcat or something else!


From the 3d of December.



Nice ice!

Nice skates! They belongs to him with big H.

Short

We went checking Selångersån for thick enough ice. It was possible to go some km with the iceskates, but the ice was thin and not so thrustful. The coffee did taste good anyway, it always does outdoor in winter.

Tour the Skälsjön - Sunday

28,4 km on my GPS today. The tour of the day got a lot of members. From my family it was me and M. I was really glad that he two days in a row wanted to go iceskating. It started to snow during the tour, exactly as last time I was at this lake. The funniest and most excating was our wolf tracking. Because it wasn´t a fox, and it wasn´t a dog... so it might have been a wolf. The surrounding of this lake do have all kind of animals so it wouldn´t be strange to find footprints from animal, I as usual wished for really see some animal. Guess we have to wait for the seaeagels...or the seals.
Photos is coming up later

Saturday fun

The funniest today was the company of M and E, we went to Armsjön for a 19,1km due to the log of the GPS. Were the ice yesterday was about 52 mm and sounding and cracking it was today about 62 mm and hardly no singing at all from the ice, and rarely any cracks.
At some places we chased fishes (aborre). At the coffeebreak we drank both coffee and glögg.
It was an early day, I had to be somewhere 40km north Sundsvall and the lake we skated on is 35km south Sundsvall. Anyway I was in time, tomorrow it´s not going to be wake up at 7.00 like today. I think it´s going to be about "seventhirt"..;-) like when we had a long sleeping morning in Africa.

We took some photos, I´m to tired to edit them for publishing tonight.

So here is some from yesterday


Cracks in the ice, you can also see the track from the iceskate... about 52 mm thick ice



some places didn´t have ice, we avoided them!

Armsjön

Today I went looking for ice together with Mr "Iceeyes in Sundsvall". A little bit suprised over how big area we could skate over. Some places sounded very high and the cracks in the ice started to go in different direction, a sign that it is a good idea to return.

We had some big areas with open water due to wind when freezing, or some? Actually a lots of it, the ice were really educational so I might call it studies instead.
5 minutes and no photo want to be uploaded today to the blog... I have some and might put them in later.