Operation Doubble Raven II - Part 1
Saturday started with a traditional Old Man fika gathering at a café, followed by a visit to
Bråviken bay together with my friend TB3, and after that I drove my adventure car into the
Wilderness. I had packed all my best gear and didn't even have one compromise with me,
other than various new items I wanted to test.
This was probably the last snow this year, so I wanted to make the best use of it.
-7 degrees celcius in the morning,
I drove north into Södermanland county and some properly remote area. Out here
there are no tracks what so ever and there were so much wet snow I could hear it
grind against the under carrage of my car. You really don't want the snow to get dragged
along and form a pillow under the car, so you get stuck, because there's no one out here
that can help you. The driving had to be very carefull...
Dusk is falling and I look back on my tracks.
Now I'm very much alone...
Two ravens are keeping me company and displays a wonderful combined air show,
aerial combat and mating play,
Now I've choosen my camp site and I have for once walked the snow flat where I'm
going to put my tent. Usually I just put the tent right on top of the snow, but now
the snow was too thick.
Dusk is falling slowly and with it also the temperature.
It's an absolutely crystal clear night sky with lots of stars, a full moon and so
unbelievably quiet you think your ears have been blocked.
Supper with Drytec chicken curry, sandwiches and apple juice.
Tradition dictates that I bring cola bottles candy that freezes and becomes like stone,
but melts satisfactory in ones mouth.
My contour pillow has also frozen and become hard as wood, but it also melts when
I lay on it for a while.
I used my two thinnest Snugpak sleeping bags during the night and they kept a perfect
temperature balance all night.
The camo sack is on it's third set of zippers... I've used it for so long and so much.
Self-luminous Emergency Exit sign above the door, made of soft fabric.
The tent in the morning. Sledding and snow showel to the right.
The cloth is a Barracuda multi spectrum winter camouflage screen 422. Very light and
amazingly effective.
Saturday started with a traditional Old Man fika gathering at a café, followed by a visit to
Bråviken bay together with my friend TB3, and after that I drove my adventure car into the
Wilderness. I had packed all my best gear and didn't even have one compromise with me,
other than various new items I wanted to test.
This was probably the last snow this year, so I wanted to make the best use of it.
-7 degrees celcius in the morning,
I drove north into Södermanland county and some properly remote area. Out here
there are no tracks what so ever and there were so much wet snow I could hear it
grind against the under carrage of my car. You really don't want the snow to get dragged
along and form a pillow under the car, so you get stuck, because there's no one out here
that can help you. The driving had to be very carefull...
Dusk is falling and I look back on my tracks.
Now I'm very much alone...
Two ravens are keeping me company and displays a wonderful combined air show,
aerial combat and mating play,
Now I've choosen my camp site and I have for once walked the snow flat where I'm
going to put my tent. Usually I just put the tent right on top of the snow, but now
the snow was too thick.
Dusk is falling slowly and with it also the temperature.
It's an absolutely crystal clear night sky with lots of stars, a full moon and so
unbelievably quiet you think your ears have been blocked.
Supper with Drytec chicken curry, sandwiches and apple juice.
Tradition dictates that I bring cola bottles candy that freezes and becomes like stone,
but melts satisfactory in ones mouth.
My contour pillow has also frozen and become hard as wood, but it also melts when
I lay on it for a while.
I used my two thinnest Snugpak sleeping bags during the night and they kept a perfect
temperature balance all night.
The camo sack is on it's third set of zippers... I've used it for so long and so much.
Self-luminous Emergency Exit sign above the door, made of soft fabric.
The tent in the morning. Sledding and snow showel to the right.
The cloth is a Barracuda multi spectrum winter camouflage screen 422. Very light and
amazingly effective.
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