Posted in Fishing and Hunting, Lapland, Meetups and gatherings, Nature, Swedish Lapland, Tracks and signs, Travel and navigation, tagged cabin, fish, Gallivare, hunting, Sweden on 11/12/2009 | 1 Comment »
I thought I would take a step back in time and write about my first visit to Swedish Lapland in September 2006.
My friend Eckhardt had invited me to visit him and his family and spend some time at his cabin in the forest
This was the first view I had of his cabin and I never [...]
Posted in Equipment, Fire craft, Food and Drink, Lapland, Shelter, Swedish Lapland, Travel and navigation, tagged autumn, cabin, coffee, fire, food, lunch, Shelter, Sweden on 11/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
We headed off away from the bear den and after walking a while Teres spotted a beer bottle pushed under a fallen tree. Amazingly she could remember having sat there with her friend when she was 15, drinking the bottle of beer and after they had finished she pushes the bottle under the tree to [...]
Posted in Crafts, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Plants, Spruce, Swedish Lapland, Tracks and signs, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged Brown Bear, cabin, kuksa, leather, Spruce, Sweden on 08/11/2009 | 2 Comments »
The morning started with me sanding cups and Teres sewing leather bags
The temperature was -2 degrees and it had been -7 in the night but at least it was sunny
After cleaning the cabin (as it would be our last day there) we decided to go walking in the forest, to the peak behind the cabin.
The [...]
Posted in Crafts, Food and Drink, Lapland, Natural Materials, Swedish Lapland, Travel and navigation, Trees, tagged Birch, cabin, kuksa, Sweden, tipi on 05/11/2009 | 6 Comments »
We spent the morning collecting fallen trees from the forest for next years fire wood. Its so much easier to drag them back when there are two people!!!
I also carried back the tipi poles and stored in the cabin roof.
I spent the rest of the morning sawing the trees into logs
We drove to a small [...]
Posted in Crafts, Fire craft, Food and Drink, Lapland, Nature, Plants, Reindeer, Travel and navigation, Wildlife, tagged cabin, coffee, kuksa, Reindeer, Sweden on 02/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
I spent some time teaching Teres how to use a firesteel and while we were out collecting water from the spring, I challenged her to make fire and a pot of coffee. So as not to pressure her I went walking in the forest. I was walking along the edge of this marsh
when I heard [...]
Posted in Crafts, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Reindeer, Swedish Lapland, Tools, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged Birch, birds, cabin, Gallivare, knife, kuksa, leather, Reindeer on 29/10/2009 | 3 Comments »
The first task of the morning was to row the boys around the lake to collect up the boats.
As well as numerous Willow Tits feeding around the cabin this morning
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there were also two Siberian Tits.
more about “Pictures by sufguy1 – Photobucket“, posted with vodpod
After lunch we [...]
Posted in Crafts, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Reindeer, Swedish Lapland, Travel and navigation, tagged birds, cabin, kuksa, Reindeer, Sweden, tipi on 27/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heard a strange, regular noise in the forest behind the cabin first thing this morning. It was clear that whatever was making the noise was moving from left to right. I telephoned Anki and Ingvar at their cabin and they immediately identified it as a Reindeer with a bell around its neck.
After breakfast I went [...]
Posted in Food and Drink, Lapland, Meetups and gatherings, Saami, Swedish Lapland, Travel and navigation, tagged cabin, fish, food, Sweden on 24/10/2009 | 6 Comments »
During my last three visits to Lapland my friends have spoken of “Surströmming”, a delicacy and favoured food of the people of the north. It is in fact fermented herring which has been caught in the Baltic Sea. The herring is fermented in barrels for two months with just enough salt added to prevent the [...]
Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Lapland, Plants, Swedish Lapland, Tracks and signs, Travel and navigation, Wildlife, tagged cabin, fire, food, mammals, Sweden on 21/10/2009 | 7 Comments »
There are some beautiful scenes across the lake on cold, misty autumn mornings.
To provide more of a feel for the this scene I took a small piece of video
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After breakfast I took Teres and Emma for a row around the lake
and later we walked through the [...]
Posted in Crafts, Food and Drink, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Swedish Lapland, Travel and navigation, Wildlife, tagged bannock, birds, cabin, food, Gallivare, woodburner on 12/10/2009 | 1 Comment »
I began the day cooking breakfast and making a batch of pinn bröd dough
Teres was keen to help me ;>)
I cooked the breads on the top of my woodburning stove
My neighbours were at their cabin for the day and there grandson was collecting blue berries and threading them onto a grass stem. Apparently many children [...]
