Outdoor Academy of Sweden

Film from Värmland -Ugis Olte “Marta in Varmland”:

Jenny Jonevret — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:55:05 +0000

Have a look at the 30 minutes video that Ugis put on the internet, “Marta in Varmland”:
Enjoy

Jenny

Videos of Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010! Skiing, timber rafting, canoeing and axe throwing

Tommy Sollén — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:30:49 +0000

We’ve managed to transform all the video footage taken during this year’s great OAS event into two videos for your viewing pleasure.

We hope this will bring smiles and memories to you and serve as inspiration to come to Sweden for others.

Enjoy!

Ecco in Outdoor Academy of Sweden

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:37:34 +0000

View on Vimeo.
Here is a great video by Ugis and Marta from Vides filmu studija. It focuses on Ecco but shows a lot from the entire OAS event.
Thanks Ugis!

Final dinner - Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010 May 9

Tommy Sollén — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:00:10 +0000

On the evening of 9th we had one last dinner together and what a dinner it was! Great food, drinking songs, speeches and great company!

The rest of the evening with great music and dancing proved to be one of the most fun filled OAS evenings ever! Cheers everyone!

Rail pedal trolley - Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010 May 9

Tommy Sollén — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:42 +0000

The group who stayed out another night with the canoes got to go on an amazing trip on rail pedal trollies!

Of course with a well deserved coffee and cinnamon bun break afterwards

Gold panning in Sweden - Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010 May 9

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:40:47 +0000

The group who stayed out another night with the canoes learned how to pan for gold!

Their teacher has 37 World Gold panning Championships medals so he knew what he was doing. Just look at the photos. It was like a gold rush out there!

Amazing Swedish sunset - Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010 May 8

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:48:27 +0000

After the floating timber raft dinner we took a quick bus ride to the Bredsjö mansion where we would stay the night, have a workshop the next day and where we would spend the final dinner.

We were greeted by one of the most spectacular sunsets I’ve ever seen!

Thanks from the SOG crew!

Tommy Sollén — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:33:19 +0000

Tag yourself on Facebook here: http://bit.ly/b9fKaM

The SOG crew is now back home and yes, we miss you all! And we miss Värmland.

Thanks again for the contribution to the Polar Bears, together we collected almost 5 000 Euro. I also want to send you a big THANK YOU from WWF in Sweden!! If you want to give more money for the climate and the Polar Bears, you can get more info for each country here (http://www.wwf.se/english/1129071-about-wwf).

Warm regards and a big hug

Scandinavian Outdoor Group (www.scandinavianoutdoors.com)

/Sara Wänseth

Dinner on a huge floating timber raft - Outdoor Academy of Sweden 2010 May 8

Tommy Sollén — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:13:24 +0000

After half a day of canoeing, lunch and elk tracking, we split up into two groups. One that would continue to paddle canoe further out and sleep outdoors and another, which I was a part of, that would head back and have a dinner on a big raft. After a short pleasant and bicycle ride from the canoes we arrived at the site where the raft was anchored.

The rafts we had recently built were made up of 60 timber logs each weighing about 1000kg. This raft that took 15 of us was huge! It could easily have handled twice as many people so we had plenty or room with two long tables, plenty of Primus grills and lots of good food and drink. We were in the safe and merry company of the owners of Hellefors Herrgård who organises these kind of raft dinners all the time.

At the end of the 2-3 hour slow floating dinner we suddenly heard the faint sound of a violin playing hauntingly beautiful further down stream. Behold! A naked man playing the fiddle! (no pun intended). It was Näcken himself.

Thank you!!!

Jenny Jonevret — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:10:42 +0000

Dear Outdoor Ambassadors of Sweden!

Thank you very much for your participation at OAS in Värmland.
Now I am back in the office and it feels empty that you all have gone back to your home countries…

I really hope you had some interesting and useful experiences from your stay. If you have any questions concerning Värmland or Sweden don’t hesitate to contact me.

This OAS blog will continue to update this and next week with stories, photos and eventually video! Keep coming back to check it out. Don’t forget to write comments, be it a few lines of your experiences or just a hello to the other participants. It is great to see that you’ve been there and left a foot print.
The photos are also uploaded to Facebook and we would like to encourage you to go there and “tag” yourself if you appear in the photos.
Click here to see the photos on Facebook.

Finally, if you want to share photos or video with us and allow us to upload them to flickr, Facebook and the blog, we’d really appreciate it. Tommy and Fredrik couldn’t be in every place at every great photo opportunity so you probably have some great photos as well If you want to share photos or video send them to Tommy Sollén (tommy.sollen@visitsweden.com). Since they are probably too big for emails you might want to use a service like http://www.yousendit.com/ (free up to 100Mb) or something similar.

As we say in Swedish, Välkommen tillbaka (Welcome back)

Jenny