Outdoor Academy of Sweden

OAS 2009, Photos from YOU

Tommy Sollén — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:46 +0000

Here is a selection of all the photos you’ve sent in to us. Thank you so much for sharing your photos. That’s very kind and generous and it makes this blog even better and an even richer archive of the OAS 2009 event

Photos from:
Hans Jürgen Lange, Kathrin Thoma-Bregar, Katja Lehmann, Matthias Assmann, Nature Travels and Wilfried E Mach.
“Photo by” text is shown when clicking on the photos and looking at the description.
(even more here)

OAS 2009, Day 4 - The final dinner

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:19:51 +0000

After a long day of trekking and a visit to the Ice hotel ice factory, equipment return and a chance for a real shower it was time for our final dinner together. Some also took the opportunity to relax in the sauna and take a quick dip in Torne river - wow that must have been cold!

The dinner was held in a very old and beautiful house in Jukkasjärvi by Torne river.

Congratulations all Outdoor ambassadors of Sweden

OAS 2009, Day 4 - The long trek back

Tommy Sollén — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:20 +0000

This day was a challange! The trekking we had done in a relaxed pace and with plenty of stops during the last two days was no to be repeated in one day.

We packed our lunch at the Kebnekaise mountain lodge breakfast buffé and headed out around 8 am. The trek from there to the boat is 8.2 km.

We then took the boat another 6km where some rested or ate their lunch. The boat takes us over Ladjojaure to the previous camp. Feeling a bit more rested after the boat ride, and a bit cold after sitting still for so long, we quickly continued the trek towards Nikkaluokta - another 6km.

We arrived in Nikkaluokta at about 2 pm where we got a comfy bus ride back to the Ice Hotel.

A word from Scandinavian Outdoor Group

Tommy Sollén — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:49:16 +0000

On behalf of Scandinavian Outdoor Group I would like to say Thank You to you all!

I miss Lapland and all of you already and I really had a great couple of days and nights up there. I hope you did too!

Hopefully I will have the chance to see some of you at OutDoor, in Scandinavian Village of course!

–
Sara Wänseth
SOG

Thank you for your warm response…..

Jenny Jonevret — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:17:47 +0000

When we receive e-mails like this it makes us sure that the Academy-concept is really working. Thank you Ciaron! // Jenny

Hi Jenny, can i just say a massive thank you to you and all the guys that made this trip absolutelt amazing for me, i had such a great time and learned loads about sweden and swedish lapland, for me it was a great experience and one i will never forget and it has made me want to go back for more( but in the winter next time), it is such a wonderful and magical place and i loved every minute of my stay, i will truely be an ambassador for sweden and i will recommend to everyone i meet that they visit sweden and especially swedish laplan, thank you for making it possible foe me to go on this trip and thank you for a wonderful time, i feel like i have made some new friends for life and i will hopefully see you all agian.

Thanks again Ciaron

OAS 2009, Day 3 - Midnight skiing on Kebnekaise

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:10:58 +0000

After dinner a group of people wanted to ski on Kebnekaise. How about that?

The staff was kind enough to briefly open the equipment shop and let them rent some gear and up they went!
It wasn’t clear skies but it was certainly bright outside even though it was past 11pm.
Here’s a photo of their climb up. I hope to have more to show you later.

OAS 2009, Day 3 - Dinner

Tommy Sollén — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:05:07 +0000

After a day of trekking, workshops, climbing and horseback riding it was very nice to relax a little in Kebnekaise moundain lodge while waiting for the evening dinner.
And by “relax” I of course mean blogging.

Many of us was hanging out in the big social room and had a drink and talking about the event so far.

The three course dinner was very nice and very impressive considering every little piece of food or drink is flown in by helicopter. (which also made the extra beers quite expensive but considering the transportation problems I suspect people were forgiving)

Thank you very much and welcome back!

Jenny Jonevret — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:57:58 +0000

Dear Outdoor Ambassadors of Sweden!

Thank you for your participation at Outdoor Academy of Sweden in Swedish Lapland. I hope you had a pleasant flight back home yesterday. I have to admit I’m a bit tired today….

Don’t forget to look at our blog and see some nice pictures from our trip. Soon the slideshow that Fredrik showed us Saturday evening will bee there too. We would really appreciate if you have nice pictures that you want to share with us on the blog, please send them to Tommy.

Hope to see you soon // Jenny

OAS-blog: oas.visitsweden.com
tommy.sollen@visitsweden.com

Trouble commenting?

Tommy Sollén — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:49:10 +0000

EDIT: this problem has now been fixed!
Have you tried to comment our blog posts but for some reason it didn’t work?
I’ve heard this from several people now and I’ve asked our web developer to take a look at what’s causing the problem.

I’m very sorry for this and I’ll let you know as soon as it is fixed.

If you have tried to comment it would be great for me to know this so please send me an email at tommy.sollen@visitsweden.com and let me know. Thanks!

Do you want to share photos?

Tommy Sollén — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:18:43 +0000

The Outdoor Academy of Sweden is now over for 2009.

My camera got wet during the whitewater rafting so I’m not sure it survived. In any case you’ll soon see more photos from our days in Lappland and also videos. So keep coming back to the blog later in the week.

As you can see I’ve taken a lot of photos and our photographer Fredrik has taken even more.
If you have some good photos we’d be very happy if you would select a few and email them to me. Fredrik will then do an updated version of the slideshow that will be published here in the blog for everyone to see.

Email me at tommy.sollen@visitsweden.com

Hej då! :)

ps. do you want to write a guest blog entry giving your perspective on OAS 2009? We’d be happy if you would. It can be just a few lines or a whole story. Let me know. ds.