(Photo Björn Dahlgren) I love extremes. Mountains one day, castles the next…

Can you recognize the feeling when life feels really good. Sometimes the planet stands in the right direction and life just feels great. Those moments are golden…There are two feeling I really like, the one I just describe and the feeling when I can feel and see the mountains. Spending times with the friends and just love life, that so great.

All statistics from the winter season is crashing in. What we can see is that avalanches is reported from November to May nowadays. It has been a small increasing of number of avalanches. This winter it has also been a lot more fatal accidents. A phenome we can see this winter is a serious number of Carbon monoxide poising.  The latest is from Härjedalen just a week ago. A women was found in a wind shelter dead due to Carbon Monoxide Poising. Be very careful when using stove in  small areas such as tent or wind shelters. If the flame is yellow the combustion is poor and the risk of gas is increased. Use of cattle with heat exchanger with so-called flanges aloo produce more risk of Carbon monoxide. always ensure good ventilation.

About talking about stoves, here come one new interesting one: The Fire Maple Peterel ultralight. With a weight of 184g and a capacity of 750ml it looks like a nice one. It is very packable, efficient. The only negative thing is that a 230g gas tube does not fit in..

I also find Lundhags Flok wool Ms Pile vest very nice. I am one of those who has a penchant for the West when I’m on tour. I find it as a very flexible garment. It might  It may seem a little large in size, but really nice wool…

Ain’t Going Down This Time

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We already has past the middle of May, and soon we will be on June. So it is time for a summing up of the Winter season and looking forward and planning the upcoming season. Started up in January with sleeping under the open sky at Skuleskogen. In February a tour towards Ullådalen Åre. March a fantastic tour towards Rogen and Sonfjället. April skiing at Enafors – Storlien area. In May it will be a tour towards Skuleberget for a Via Ferrata session. So it has been a real nice Winter season.

The passed week has been a lot of interesting stuff, started up with a lecture at The Storuman Outdoor School generally about guiding and Mountain Leader area in particularly. During Tuesday we got the spring meeting in Swedish mountain Safety with a lot of statistic report of the Winter season. We will get the fully report within a couple of days, but the trends we can see. This year it has been more of incidents over all. We can also see that the visits in the Swedish mountains has overall decreased. The season has been with a big variable of weather as well. More detailed reporting will come…

Todays suggested hiking tour, will be the three park meeting. This is a hike where you will pass three out of Sweden’s national parks. I suggest you start at Ritsem. From here you take the boat to Änonjalmme and a short hike of two km to the akkha cabin, From here you got the view over the  Queen of Swedish Lapland, The akkha mountain. Next day your tour will be towards the Kisuris(Gisuris) cabins. This will take about 4-5 hours 14km. This day is a enjoyers day among many reasons; The trail goes close to the mountain Akkha, The sound of the wildly rushing Vuojatädno River can be heard throughout much of the stage. In days with good weather you see the top of the mountains in Sarek, and just a couple of kilometers before the end of this day you will pass the spot where the three national park meets. The next day the target will be the Kutjaure cabin 18km away. This day you will pass 9 bridges. Don’t forget to check the waterfall and caves close to the cabin. The next day it is time for the Vaisaluokta cabin,  18km away. Now you follow the Nordkalott trail, at the beach of the Vaisaluokta the Samis got there summer stay. Here you can buy freshly ought fish. From here you just take the boat jurney back to Ritsem.

Since I am going for a tour to Garmisch Partenkirchen soon, I will test the Petzl 85L Duffelbag, So I will reply when I have checked it. And at last the workout follows the plan so far…around 70km running and 100km speed hiking this week…This week I will end up with a poem. It will be on Swedish…

Den mätta dagen är aldrig störst. Den bästa dagen är en dag av törst. Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd – men det är vägen, som är mödan värd. Det bästa målet är en nattlång rast, där elden tänds och brödet bryts i hast. På ställen där man sover blott en gång, blir sömnen trygg och drömmen full av sång. Bryt upp bryt upp! Den nya dagen gryr, oändligt är vårt stora äventyr.

Karin Boye.

Don’t forget the small things nice  in the everyday life

Zach Bryan – Poems and Closing Time

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The training has went well this week. With over 200km including a hill training session. Today I reach 48,8km so lets call kit a day now:-) The upcoming week will be hectic. Tomorrow I will holding a lecture for high School at Storuman and Tuesday it is time for meeting with the Mountain Safety Council where I will hold a lecture about the job and status with the work in the Mountain Leader Council…

I have now review the Salewa Mountain Trainer Lite mid Gore-Tex boot. And I find it real good. It has low or medium shaft, so from my point of view its not so stable as the description. But if you lace them up tight, they become very flexible and fit very well. A real nice boot for Via Ferrata for example. Or day hikes between cabins. So NNN+ will be the score for this boot.

This week blog will be a shorter due to all upcoming activities (also preparing for a Garmisch Partenkirchen tour in June) But next week will be a longer one I can tell…

Blackberry Smoke – One Horse Town (Official Acoustic Video)

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A study from Sweden shows that today 1/3 feel stress from training rather than motivation. The same study also shows that 40% Of those surveyed  believes that interest in training has increased in the last four years. But back to the stress, as usual I thing its related to that we got to high ambition and when we don’t live up to our own expectation it is easy to loose the motivation and we fall into a negative spiral. So I will try to reach out a bit about all of this. What is Ambition-Engagement and Motivation.

Ambition, Simply put, it is the desire to do or achieve something. Ambition can be a very negative quality. If you are selfish and just strive for getting everything better for yourself. Ambition is to become more than you are, so it can be a nice quality as well, but you have to take good care of it.

Engagement, is when I do something for it makes me feel good, something that give me energy and I do it for just the good feeling. Ehen you do something and feel great, that is when you got engagement. The engagement almost starts with a spark. An idea, a feeling or a friend who give you boost of energy. I have said it before, surround you with people who gives you energy. Storytelling, this is very important here to get the engagement, you or someone else can move mountains with that quality. Commitment is thus choosing to care, even when it would be easier not to.

But Motivation then? It all begins with a holistic view-Participation-development and feedback if all of this parts are involved then you get motivated. So if we look back to the survey on the top here – why does people loos there motivation? Not enough long-term goal (the holistic view) the development of training fails to appear and so on. Try and develop, use a frameless thinking.

You can also look on it from this view:

Ambition; timeframe-future, power-source-visions, persistence-an ongoing planning phase.  Engagement; time-frame–present time, power-source-values, persistence-like a silent worker ant. Motivation, timeframe-immediate, power-source-feelings, persistence, like a cat on caffeine.

Time to Go

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