Swedish Wilderness Survival & prepping

🏔 Distance is only a obstacle if you're not willing to walk it 🏔 --- Adventures have taken a turn to the south. This time the destination was the north of Greece. More specifically: Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. This time the attraction was not the mighty Mt. Olympus mountains or the beautiful towns around northern Greece but rather a specific Russian sweet that strangely is only found in Greece at this time of the year. Spending time with @alisa_otcher has been quite magical. Since our first message 2 years ago we have been become great friends and finally getting to see each other was strangely familiar. She is truly an amazing gal and I hope our ways will cross many times in the future and that our promises will stay true. Even though my primary goal was to meet Alisa I also had the privilege of meeting @gosha_otcher and the rest of Alisas family which was much nicer than I expected from a Russian family. Nonetheless I felt very welcomed and had a very nice time during my two weeks down in Thessaloniki. Stay safe in these times fellow comrades! --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #travelling #mountains #greece --- (på/i Thessaloníki) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hcauwjmOt/?igshid=5zmpgo1it569

EASY SUPERSHELTER | The Swedish Snow Cave

🌲The Swedish Wilderness 🌲 --- No matter where we place our feet there are always places to explore. In my situation that now applied to Stockholm. I have explored most of the popular hiking trails around the capital but this route I had left out due to lacking communal connections to the end of the route. 3 days we were out freezing in the humid rough weather that is the usual of "winter" in the capital of Sweden. We did a lot of freezing even though the degrees were not as low as we are used to having lived in Kiruna for some years. We began our hike the first day late and ended up having to walk after sundown. Thankfully we both knew this first part of the hike since before so we eventually find our way but in the dark rainy conditions it was definitely more exhausting than it needs to be have we started our hike earlier As we arrived at the first campsite we were greeted by firewood and a empty cottage with a stove that we could seek refuge in so all was not bad. Second day was all the more exciting since we would now explore a part of the trail we had before not hiked. It was still cold and ice covered most of the lakes and the ground was wet. Boots were covered in mud and we were quite tired after a relatively cold morning. The second day was overall a very good one with many new locations being discovered. We did notice that fewer people were swimming in these water though. The trail markers were fewer and walking the wrong way was quite easy at times which is not something you want to do when you're already cold and frustrated and want to arrive at the next camp. Making fire here was harder because of the wet firewood and we ended up sleeping in the tent instead of the pre built shelters on the trail. Even with this it was very chilly and cold and we ended cutting our hike the next day by some kilometres to get some heat. --- 📷 (2,3) @samazingzz --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- (på/i Sörmlandsleden) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9o1Y28Ha4k/?igshid=2cvng3qmhd2b

🏔🌲New adventures await 🌲🏔 --- The year has been one with great diversity. A diversity I, unexpectedly, did enjoy. If you ask people I am a person who enjoys when life is a little stale. I want life to be in order. Life being in order still does require some chaos though. This is what I, and what I've come to understand many others, express in the way of adventures. This year I've been not only travelling from the warm southern Sweden but also come to know the coldest winds of Svalbard. But as it is new years I thought I'd do a little recap of the pictures 📷 --- (1) Taken at the chilly forests of northern Sweden this picture was captured at -35 degrees together with storm winds. Last February I was out hiking. After about 4 hours of "sleeping" I notice I have great difficulty using my hands and one of my legs is shaking with great intensity. I cancelled the attempt to make it till morning and took off skiing. As soon as I put on my skis i noticed weird figures in my peripherals. This I figured later to be hallucinations due to my condition. I contracted frostbite (or severe frostnip) on both hands and well as on one foot. Thinking back at it I am glad I did not fall asleep.. --- (2) In the deep forests of Jokkmokk, Sweden me together with a friend decided to do a hike to a lake he regularly visits. When you visit places few people visit mosquitoes are very thirsty. --- (3),(4) Spacewalk 19. A yearly hike me together with good comrades do every year. Sadly this year a was sick and did not enjoy it as much as I usually do. A great experience nonetheless. --- (5),(6),(7) Svalbard. Now this is a story people have a problem understanding. I went to Svalbard for my graduation. I do not enjoy celebrations when I do not believe I have deserved them and hence I didn't want to follow through with the festivities of a graduation and therefore I went to Svalbard. --- (8) Trollsjön/Rissajaure Just an everyday adventure with a outdoor bath in -2 degrees amd storm winds. --- (9) Just a tent night on a mountain. --- (10) SOUND ON 🔊 --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- Have a great new year! 🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/B6wF79AjASl/?igshid=c6k9ohvcmtc8

🎄 A winter to celebrate 🎄 --- Happy holidays my good friends. It's that time of the year where we gather with friends and family to celebrate some light in these dark times. Strangely enough this occurs after the winter solstice in my town or Kiruna. Even though we technically still live in the polar night every day is a little longer than the last. These are happy times my friends and don't forget to show some appreciation to your fellow comrades. Happy holidays my friends and I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas this year. --- #winter #christmas #adventure #friluftsliv #arctic #Sweden (på/i Luossavaara, Norrbottens Län, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6dNMD4jkay/?igshid=94jnylz51a7p

❄ When Snow Conditions are not fun | Winter in the Arctic ❄

❄ Staying Frosty This time of the year ❄ --- It's that time of the year again where I get to attract frostbite, go nights hungry because fires wont start and learn to love the flashlight. Winter has really begun for real up here in Kiruna. I dont have the sadistic relationship with the cold as many think I do. I actually despise being cold and hate it to its fullest. So many activities become difficult when you start to become cold. All the mind is thinking about is getting warm. Food, good mood and a sensible brain comes second hand when you are losing the feeling in your hands. --- #nature #octoberl #adventure #landscape #outdoors #winter #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- (på/i Kiruna, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4SPNVjj_Da/?igshid=1uyjmyfdrbj00

🏔 Nature is not a place to visit. It's home 🏔 --- While this quote from Gary Snyder might be a bit clingy it couldn't be said in a better way for people like myself. When I first started hiking I thought of the outdoors as a hostile and unfriendly environment, which it is in many aspects, but as I've done many hikes throughout the years since I started it all comes to feel like home. Sometimes I catch myself thinking of it as more of a home than my usual suburban living. I've been described as unmoving, untouched and in many senses I am the same as the mountains I climb. The usual "teenage philosophy" have never really occurred to me and I believe myself to have skipped that part of my teenage years. Home should be where you can be yourself, and it's better yet if you and your home are one and the same. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden (på/i Trollsjön) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Rxadvjprq/?igshid=iq7gtb0z4pk6

🏔 Amongst the giants 🏔 --- A mountain goat only needs little time in the mountains to learn to climb. Now, even though we did not perform any climbing I think the saying still applies since our visit to the viewed lake was short lived. 40 minutes was spent which also included an obligatory swim. I wouldn't call it the most comfortable swim I've ever performed seeing it was -4°C and wind speeds of up to 15m/s. But even in cold mountain conditions it is still great to having access to the mountains and being able to bring out the mountain goat inside. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- (på/i Trollsjön) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2rKFErjgwA/?igshid=hp2il1cffg7k

🌌 In a town of sparkling lights 🌌 --- Taken yesterday from my flat in Kiruna, Sweden. I was suprised to see the Aurora sparkling since the predictions told me that it was a relatively small chance to see the northern lights. But there they were. Sparkling outside my window as I was brushing my teeth getting ready for the bed. But such circumstances require you to stay up just a bit longer to enjoy and be mesmerized by the tails dancing on the sky. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #aurora #mountains #sweden --- (på/i Kiruna, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2JvBJuDBYE/?igshid=14s28bdhis78i

🏔 Stairway to heaven 🏔 --- Taken in the settlement of Barentsburg on Svalbard, Spitsbergen you will not be suprised that I say it was rather cold at this particular place. Close to the polar ocean at 78°N (or 79°N to be exact) it was bound to be a desolate place removed of colour. Not to mention the town itself is a mining settlement which doesn't contribute to the otherwise lack of color this place has to offer. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #svalbard --- (på/i Barentsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1GucZiDoad/?igshid=1vzdpupz02j1z

⛰ Among the mountains ⛰ --- Let's take a trip to Svalbard, Barentsburg. A Russian mining settlement currently in action though I suspect most of the economy is based around science and tourism. Although having a very beautiful view the town itself really looks like it came out of the Soviet union. Nevertheless taking a cup of tea and watching the waves crush against the mountains is mesmerising and to not say, beautiful. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #svalbard (på/i Barentsburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0549jBjI_z/?igshid=1qjoq69x6nvvp

🌲 Home is where the heart is🌲 --- Some pictures from a recent trip to Jokkmokk, Voulirim and the forests surrounding northern Sweden. It's interesting how you can travel just 2 hours south from the northernmost point in Sweden and you find yourself with a warm summer, swimming weather and completely different types of surroundings than what we have in Kiruna. I also got the privilege of seeing the largest antlers of a shot elk (in Sweden) as well as some mid-day hiking with a respectable amount of mosquitos (the reason I look like a Vietnam soldier in p3) --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- 📸 (2) @kenneth.hagsten (på/i Vuollerim) https://www.instagram.com/p/B00u0pYjAKs/?igshid=rwt45vns2j53

🦌 Treat the animals as equals and they will respect you 🦌 --- Meeting some local Sámi people on my trip to Jokkmokk I got the privilege of connecting with a live reindeer. They seem to be quite keen of people and it was neither threatened nor disturbed by me. I feel respect for the people involved in bringing these animals up as I've understood it's quite a lot of work. True nature people doing true nature work and for that I respect them. Beautiful creatures they are nevertheless. The reindeer that is. --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden --- 📸 @elisabethhagsten (på/i Padjerim) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0vUgSDD1UQ/?igshid=1let33v8f3ju0

🌲And I would walk 500 miles🌲 --- Spacewalk 2019. A hike that was completed for the third time this year. Sadly we ended up being only four people while the plan was up to ten participants. But oh well. Four men, four days and four ten kilometre (a swedish "mil"). Hikes and adventures are always more enjoyable with your fellow comrades. @spacewalkhiking --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #Sweden (på/i Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzxrHPTjiwP/?igshid=ed9cvv0ot11x

SVALBARD TRAVEL | Spitzbergen Arctic Adventures

⛰ An ordinary life among the mountains ⛰ --- Even though some might argue my trip to Svalbard was anything but ordinary I would like to play the devils advocate in the manner. Booking a flight Longyearbyen was no more difficult than to any other place. Shopping, even though expensive, was just as easy as it is back home. The people were from all over. Miners, grad-students, scientists, fishers and sailors. Longyearbyen works just like any other society (with the exception of legally carrying around guns of course). Taking a trip up the mountains close to the city was just as easy as taking a cab and so was booking a trip down the abandoned mine Gruva 3. What really amazed me were how cooperate the population were with us tourists. In other places I've experienced the guides as if being sick of tourists. Not on Svalbard though. The guides took their time to invest in us tourists and even wanted to hear stories of our home country and our local food (and of course I told them the tale of Palt). An interesting place that was strangely welcoming. Who knows. Maybe I'll settle there one day? --- #nature #travel #adventure #landscape #outdoors #naturelovers #naturephotography #hiking #mountains #svalbard (på/i Longyearbyen, Svalbard) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzIYp1uDeca/?igshid=hfl4p6bubqqz