Was out last sunday skiing. Plenty of snow alltough less than earlier years.
I followed a track made by several skiers for a while. But I had no intentions on following these tracks for long. My goal for the trip was to make a nice warm fire, smoke a good pipe and drink some coffee. Purely recreational.
Most people just run trough the wood for training purposes, never noticing anything in their path.
A part of the area is a military shooting range, hence the warning sign below. I have never found any unexploded grenades though. And nowadays they mostly use small arms.
After half an our (left the ski track) I found a suitable snow drift, with lots of firewood nearby. I took off my gear and started moving some snow with my snow showel.
After 20 minutes it looked like this. Making fire in a pine forest is easy. Lots of dry fat wood. Ignites like gunpowder
.
After a while the coffe was ready and the pipe lit. Could one ask for more. This is life as it should be. Not the tasteless, sugarfree coke as the advertisement would have us believe .
The wood was very quiet, if one rule out the howling wind. No animals or birds was present. I saw some day old tracks of grouse, fox and hare (pic below) but not the animals themselves. Could be the weather but I know from earlier trips that this wood is almost free of animals. I have never seen moose tracks here.
Some other pictures of the area.
Tor Helge
I followed a track made by several skiers for a while. But I had no intentions on following these tracks for long. My goal for the trip was to make a nice warm fire, smoke a good pipe and drink some coffee. Purely recreational.
Most people just run trough the wood for training purposes, never noticing anything in their path.
A part of the area is a military shooting range, hence the warning sign below. I have never found any unexploded grenades though. And nowadays they mostly use small arms.
After half an our (left the ski track) I found a suitable snow drift, with lots of firewood nearby. I took off my gear and started moving some snow with my snow showel.
After 20 minutes it looked like this. Making fire in a pine forest is easy. Lots of dry fat wood. Ignites like gunpowder
.
After a while the coffe was ready and the pipe lit. Could one ask for more. This is life as it should be. Not the tasteless, sugarfree coke as the advertisement would have us believe
.
The wood was very quiet, if one rule out the howling wind. No animals or birds was present. I saw some day old tracks of grouse, fox and hare (pic below) but not the animals themselves. Could be the weather but I know from earlier trips that this wood is almost free of animals. I have never seen moose tracks here.
Some other pictures of the area.
Tor Helge
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