Pär Lindholm

Landsvägscykel Teneriffa - Vuelta al Teide

2023-05-11T17:01:00.002+02:00

I lördags blev det 9 timmar runt Teide. 8 timmar och 46 minuter i rörelse. 14 minuter behövdes sedan tydligen för annat – fylla på vatten, dricka Coca-Cola och kissa. Vuelta de Teide, 175 km, 4400 höjdmeter. Stängda vägar. Totalt 800 cyklister, 380 som startade den långa turen och 420 som startade den korta (90 km, 2000 höjdmeter). En jäkla underbar resa - både fysisk och mentalt.

Men vi kan ta det från början. För ett par månader sedan kom en inbjudan från Turisme de Tenerife till ett gäng av oss som jobbar med cykling. ”Kom och cykla med oss och se hur fint det är här!”. Blev ett snabbt svar på den uppmaningen. Några veckor sedare kommer programmet och en försynt fråga – ”Och vilken distans väljer du på Vuelta de Teide”? Gick nog lite snabbt när jag läste igenom inbjudan, hade helt missat att det i programmet ingick en start i UCI-loppet Vuelta de Teide… Men vad fan, har man klivit på vagnen är det väl bara att åka med tills man blir avkastad. Så jag skrev tillbaka att jag kör den långa och snälla vänliga fixa en XXL-cykel så jag kan ha sadeln på 900 mm höjd över BB.

Ytterligare några veckor går och det närmar sig resan. ”Här är det slutgiltiga programmet och vi inkluderar också GPX-filerna för turerna vi gör dagarna innan. ”

Onsdag – 1240 höjdmeter

Torsdag – 1260 höjdmeter

Fredag - lugn dag inför loppet, 900 höjdmeter…

Lördag – 4450 höjdmeter

= ~8000 höjdmeter på 4 dagar

Jaha. Sen däremellan skulle det ses på hotell, käkas bjudmiddagar, åka på valsafari och vara social. Optimal uppladdning? Inte riktigt. Men så hade jag ju klivit upp på den berömda vagnen som nu var satt i rörelse. Istället blev det en lugn vecka innan avresa med 6 nätter då jag körde upp med husbilen och sov på 2000 meters höjd här ovanför Berga i Pyrenéerna där jag bor. Några extra röda blodceller kanske skulle kunna hinna bildas. Gjorde ett test några dagar innan avresa och kunde hålla 340 watt utan problem i 20 minuter utan att det kändes nära någon gräns så någon sorts form fanns.

Väl på plats på Teneriffa fick jag en fin Cerveló, i rätt storlek!, som skulle bli min vän kommande dagar. Vi blev sedan guidade till tre riktigt fina cykeldagar.

Onsdag – varma och torra sydkusten. 34 C som max men fantastisk väg och fin asfalt.

Torsdag korsade vi otroliga Anaga-halvön i norr. Älskar det bördiga brukslandskapet med sina vinodlingar på lägre höjd och den magiska molnskogen uppe vid toppen. Körningen ner från Pico de Ingles till Santa Cruz är 22 av de vackraste kilometerna jag kört utför.

Fredag blev en specialare ut till den sydvästra punkten på ön med besök på bananodling på vägen. Sista milen ut är helt otrolig med de mäktiga klipporna och havet 200 meter nedanför.

Sen var det bara att sätta igång att äta som en jävla galning då. Jag har inte mycket talang för cykling men kolhydratladda, det kan jag. Mat juice mat juice dougnut juice mat glass. Sen några timmars matkoma/sömn och så ringde klockan. 04:45. Kaffe juice mat kaffe toa och så rullade vi ut ur hotellet klockan 06.00. Framme tidigt vid start, skönt. Folk börjar ställa upp sig och jag förstår inte riktigt varför vi inte också gör det. Sen öppnas en VIP-dörr och helt plötsligt står vi 50 meter innan eliten. Jaha. Tydligen ska vi få 20 sekunder på oss att få fart på fläsket innan dom släpper iväg resten av fältet. TUUUT och så bär det iväg. Tog nog ungefär 25 sekunder så var de snabbaste förbi oss. Slår mig direkt ihop med en nyvunnen kompis, en journalist från Holland som med lite över 2 meter och 104 km får mig att känna mig liten. Vi tar det lugnt ut ur Puerto de la Cruz, cyklar bredvid varandra och pratar. Hör folk bakom oss och vänder mig om. 20 personer som glatt sökt skydd bredvid startfältets tyngsta duo.

Första uppförsbacken är 600 höjdmeter och sedan blir det en lång härlig utförskörning där jag passerar många. Uppför igen 400 höjdmeter och sen en svårare körning utför. Enda gången jag körde på under hela loppet var just innan toppen så jag skulle komma förbi en klunga och få fri fart nedför. Nere vid havet ser vi konsekvensen av loppet – lång, lång bilö med folk som missat att vägarna spärrats av för oss under några timmar. Redan här är det tydligt vilket enormt arbete organisatörerna gjort – hundratals frivilliga, hela loopen helt utan trafik eller utan trafik i vårt körfält. Poliser och ambulanser och mekaniker runt hela berget. Dryck och mat eftersom. Vilken lyx!

Passerar en by med en kilometer pavé, herregud vad jobbigt. Här, efter 5 mil, 2h 30 min och lite över 1000 höjdmeter, börjar det på riktigt. Dags att sätta sig till ro och komma in i lunken. 800 höjdmeter och så ner i Masca-dalen, plötsligt i stark vind. Fram till byn, en vänstersväng och sedan en imponerande syn upp på loppets brantaste stigning. 4 km, 11% i snitt och över 20% i omgångar. Lägg lite vind till det och det var inte konstigt att ett gäng cyklister gick upp sista biten.

Matkontroll, lite uppförsbacke, lång nedförsbacke söderut och så svänger vi vänster och GPSen piper “Climb!”. Återstående höjd att klättra: 1760 höjdmeter. Men den här delen är skönt motlut, 4-5% större delen av tiden och vi passerar många. Erwin, min polare för dagen, säger när vi närmar oss toppen: “Ja, då har vi cyklat 7 timmar. Det är ju inte illa.” Till sluuuut når vi så 2000 meter över havet och det planar ut för 8 kilometer platt och nedförsbacke. Vilken pepp! Äntligen får vi nytta av vår storlek och trampar på och passerar ytterligare cyklister. Förbi Parador-hotelet och så börjar sista kilometerna stigning. Här går det segt på över 2200 meter. Återigen är det många som går eller cyklar mycket långsamt. Här är enda kilometern som känns riktigt seg och solen och nästan 8 timmar i sadeln känns, enda tillfället då jag inte kunde äta. Men jag vet att så fort vi börjar köra neråt och kommer ner i höjd så kommer allt att kännas bra igen.

Vi passerar helt utan fanfar högsta punkten, inga flaggor, inga hejarop, bara ÄNTLIGEN nedförsbacke. 4400 höjdmeter klättrade på 125 km. Fortare och fortare går det. Erwin är ett monster utför och trots att vi varit igång så lång tid känns det tryggt att följa hans rygg och svepa ner i 50-75 km/timmen. Det blir kallare och kallare ner genom skogen men vi vet att det vid byn Oratava är sista tidskontrollen och därefter är det neutral sträcka utan tidtagning ner till starten i Puerto de la Cruz. MYCKET bra val för säkerheten, alldeles för mycket folk och bilar och korsningar för att tävla oss ner genom byarna. Så fastän vi blir kalla så rullar vi på. Och så kör vi förbi sista tidskontrollen och kommer ut ur den vackra tallskogen. En timme tar nedförskörningen totalt och vi rullar in imål nästan på sekunden 9 timmar efter starten. Vilken upplevelse, vilken underbar dag i ett fantastiskt landskap. Det här kommer vi aldrig att glömma.

Måste verkligen tacka Tenerife Bike Training och Bike Point Tenerife för guidning, support och superfina cyklar. Om någon vill cykla loppet nästa år rekommenderar jag verkligen att ni kontaktar Tenerife Bike Training – de kommer köra ett veckolångt program med all service innan, under och efter loppet. Vilka proffs!

Ebike in the Pyrenees

2021-01-05T10:44:00.000+01:00

A very different year has come to an end and hopefully we can look forward to a quickly recovering world, far from lockdowns and close to our friends. Luckily we’ve had a good couple of years with our Swedish travel agency and had the funds to sort out all the cancellation and move bookings to the future. And now, with vaccines being rolled out around the world, we finally can start looking forward again!

Personally I choose to not look for other projects during this time, instead I opted to develop an idea I’ve had for a couple of years but never had time to go forward with. I wanted to combine the things I like the most – ebike, beautiful mountains and well composed travel packages to my beloved Pyrenees! And this time I wanted to be the product owner – the responsible towards the clients. We already sell many packages but for most of them we really on suppliers for guides, for bikes, for transports, hotels etcetera. With this project I want to take over as much of this responsibility as possible.

Through my other bike project, Berga Enduro, we already work with exklusive and 100% guided mountainbike trips with focus on difficult descents. This is for the passionate mountain biker that lives for biking. Through this project we also have many Spanish clients – something I never expected but that I truly enjoy! We’ve been working now for 2 years and had visitors from 18 countries. Mind blowing! Our terrain IS world class and we have proper all-mountain mtb all year round.

So now finally let me present my new project – Pyrenees Ebike. It’s 100% clear that for most people the future of biking is electric, in cities as well in the mountains. Here where we live in the eastern Pyrenees the mountains are so big that without modern ebikes only the fittest are able to bike here. And while for example Verbier want to become the world capital of ebiking we know that we have better terrain and of course way longer season.

What I have done is I have prepared 4 fantastic self-guided tours spanning between Andorra and the beautiful beaches of Costa Brava, the tours span 3-6 days of biking. The packages includes guide the first day, hotels, transfer of luggage, GPS, roadbook and a helpline if you run into problems. We also help you out with bike rentals and transfer the bikes to/from your tour. These are the 4 main tours:

3 countries – Andorra, France and Spain
France to Spain
Mountain to Sea
Southcern Pyrenees

We already have a few agents around Europe that will be selling the tours, the goal is to have one agent in each European country plus the US and Canada. In the future we also will have guided group trips, tailor made guided trips for groups wanting more trail and difficult riding, expand with more tours towards the west etcetera….

For me personally this is such a great outlet for my ideas, experiences and creativity! I’ve designed the tours, tried them, designed and built the web page, built a trailer for the bikes, taken photos and filmed the videos, bought GPS’s and prepared them for the tours, written all texts, talked to the hotels and the renters of e-bikes etcetera etcetera. Hundreds of hours of mainly really fun work!

What do you think, will this project succeed? If you want to help out, please follow it on Facebook and Instagram and share it to friends that you think might be interested!

Our Trails - my first documentary!

2020-05-13T11:37:00.002+02:00

Since we moved up to the Pyrenees my main hobby has, without a doubt, been mountain biking. The style of riding we do is called enduro and it involves fairly complicated downhills with heavy duty bikes. I fell so much in love with it that I even started a mountain biking project, Berga Enduro.

Just as we where about to start receiving clients a certain virus hit the world and I got a lot of free time. It was time to realise a project I've been thinking about for a year or so - a documentary about the history and future of our trails. And now, after 1 month of work, I premiered it on YouTube. So much fun to see al the response! Hopefully this will open the eyes for this beautiful area to even more people.

Have a look and let me know what you think!

Favourite fall photos

2019-11-15T10:11:00.000+01:00

Sant Llorenç dels Porxos

During 2019 I've started to pick up my camera more and more, normally opting for the small Panasonic. Great fun! Here are a random selection of favourite photos from the last couple of months.

Catalan Mongolia - one of the fantastic places we pass by when riding with Berga Enduro.

The Old House in the beautiful village of Castellar de n'Hug.

Uphill towards the Cadí.

Red and white - the first snow!

YouTuber - who could have guessed?

2019-03-28T14:29:00.003+01:00

In yet another twist of events in my life I ended with a GoPro a couple of months ago, all to film the amazing mountain biking we have here in the eastern Pyrenees. At first I just filmed the normal POV stuff but one day I decided to talk while biking to give a better sensation of what the riding is like. So I put myself infront of the camera willingly for the first time in my life. Just listening to myself talking English is a bit awkward and I've never liked to see myself on photo or video. BUT, why no? So now, at the tender age of 43, I can call myself a YouTuber and a vlogger!

And why all this? Well, with the idea that this area could be of international interest when it comes to all mountain enduro riding what could be a better way of transmitting how it is to ride here but with photos and video? So first came Instagram and now YouTube.

What do you think? Do you like my work? Let me know and please give the channel a Subscribe to help me out!

ENDURO - "Don't go chasing waterfalls"

2018-09-12T19:51:00.000+02:00

This route is a great introduction to the fantastic mountain biking around the tiny town of Berga, less than 1h 30 min from Barcelona. Here we are at the feet of the Pyrenees with fantastic terrain for riding all year round.

This route takes you to some fantastic single trails and give around 800 vertical of downhill. The riding is generally easy with some technical parts. It connects 3 separate downhills with some good XC-style single tracks that are interesting enough if you're into that. The big surprise is when biking here after rain and find yourself biking BEHIND a waterfall! But this route is for sure worth doing even without the waterfall.

UPDATE! Since I wrote this post they have made a forest road out of the nice single track just before the waterfall... So this route is now less attractive. I've also found the fantastic webb and app Trailforks to document trails so this and many, many other trails are now available here. And even more exciting - I'm starting a company with mountainbike enduro tours! Bike mountainbike descent on great trail like made for mountainbiking in the sunny Pyrenees - what is not to like? I present to you Mountain bike tours Berga Enduro!

Resumen en castellano

Una ruta de enduro totalmente genial para conocer el terreno tipica de la zona de Berga. Senderos con mucho flow donde puedes dejar tu BTT a correr. Muy recomendable!

Access

If you only have one car the easiest is to park your car in Avía and follow the normal Google Maps-direction on the asphalt road to the parking.

If you got two cars you leave one in Avià and drive the other one up to the parking.

Park just after the tunnel towards Sant Llorenç de Morunys. The tunneln on Google Maps.

The route

Part 1 - the uphill
Bike 200 meters downhill and then take the steep concrete road up. Bike it for 2 km and +200 meters to the old church at El Tossals. Enjoy the fantastic view of Montserrat, Montsant and the Pyrenées!

Part 2 - El Tossals enduro
Technical and interesting with a couple of VERY technical (or easily walked...) sections. This section ends when you reach the road. Bike the road for 500 meters to the next section.

Part 3 - Pine forest downhill
Lift the bike over the cow fence and get ready to ride! Very flowy trail with only one harder technical section. Superb naturally banked turns where you can really push it all the way down to the flat.

The really fun part is now over and you have some semi-interesting XC-biking to do to connect to the next section. You hit the asphalt road at the end but after only 150 meters you turn off for the next section

Part 4 - cross country single trail
Leave the asphalt and prepare for a couple of kilometers of shorter climbs mixed with high speed single trails with the most amazing view. This section ends by walking/pushing the bike up 30 vertical meters to the top of the mountain (where they start with paragliders/parapentes)

(Please note! After only 200 meters of this part you can can cut down towards Avía on a GREAT trail! Separate blog post about this trail will come later.)

Part 5 - Waterfall Downhill
Prepare yourself for a flowy and super fun final downhill of 3 km and 300 vertical. Fast at the start and then more technical in the forest. The trail ends and you follow the road down to the village of Avìa where you find several bars...

Tracks

The track on Strava and Wikiloc

Picos del Infiern

2018-08-06T15:12:00.000+02:00

Last week we got to do a great little adventure with a lightweight loop of the beautiful peaks of Picos del Infierno. Starting at the parking of Baños de Pantigosa just before 6 in the morning we made our way up past the Refugio de Bachimaña and then further into the valley. Finally we reached the 2700 meter high pass Cuello del Infierno. From there on we had a couple of hours of excellent easy ridge scrambling and exposed hiking passing the three main peaks:

Pico del Infierno Occidental, 3.073 masl.
Pico del Infierno Central, 3082 masl.
Pico del Infierno Oriental, 3076 masl.

After that we had quite an adventure navigating our way over the snow field to close the loop and return to the parking where we started. It for sure took us an hour extra to finally decide to follow the crampon-tracks left from the people climbing up this morning. Luckily we had a pair of lightweight little crampons that I first could use to scout the snow and to improve the trail before passing them on to Núria and walking down together. With the poles ready for self arrest if we started sliding. Note to self - get a lightweight ice-ax and some kick-ass

As always it's "fun" to look at these hyped guys uploading GoPro-filmed videos to YouTube about how cool and exposed the things they do are. The ridge of Picos del Infierno is exposed but never dangerous or difficult. So with that in mind, have a look at this YouTube-video for another view of how beautiful it is up there.

Here are some more photos from this loop - hope it inspires a visit!

Last days of snow 2018

2018-05-28T08:06:00.001+02:00

It's been a fantastic winter here in the Pyrenees and just a fantastic welcome to Berga and our new life in this little mountain town. Now we're at the end of May and although there still is snow I think I'm just about done with winter for a few months.

A couple of weeks ago I finally picked up a better compact camera again, this time with a 1" sensor and quite OK optic - the Panasonic TZ100. The image quality and the information it captures in RAW format is just amazing compared to other compact cameras I've used. Even though my DSLR camera of course captures even more the intelligens and the processing power of this new compact camera in many many cases compensates with smarter algorithms for autofocus, light measuring etcetera. So far I'm very happy with the buy, for sure I will bring a camera with me even more now.

Anyway - here are some photos from the last outings on skis. Enjoy!

I, ski model

2018-03-30T19:20:00.000+02:00

So last week my friend Alex and I headed over the border to get in some afternoon runs at the closed down ski resort of Puymorens. It had snowed but was very windy so we headed to the most protected are for winds from northwest. Alex, a filmmaker based in Barcelona with his own production company Basement Vision was ambitious enough to bring both a proper video camera and some good lenses. Hiking up we found a nice little powder field that I then skied twice while he filmed. For being a moments work without any preparation more than bringing cameras the result is pretty good!

Interested in seeing more of Alex work? Check out his Facebook-page and Instagram.

Back to Canarias

2018-03-21T09:22:00.001+01:00

Just back home from 9 days on the Canary islands of Tenerife and La Gomera. It was a very intense trip guiding our new hiking package from our Cykla & Vandra project.

This was also the first time I got back home with a camera full of photos and could fully enjoy the experience of importing, sorting, deleting and editing them in Lightroom and Photoshop on my new fairly powerful Hackintosh. What a pleasure, so easy and fast! And then uploading them to Flick and Dropbox over our 50 Mb/s fiber... the joy!

Now back home for hopefully a couple of intense months of skiing before summer arrives!

Home mountains

2018-03-01T11:26:00.000+01:00

Sunday we decided to dedicate some ours in the morning to finally get the last important things done in the flat. Some shelfs, a clothes hanger, organisation of the garage and a lot more. But keeping up with the idea of really getting to enjoy our new home mountains finally at 16.00 we managed to head out for a tour in the mountains closest to home.

We met a lot of cars driving down, being Sunday afternoon and all, but almost empty already when we parked and got our skis on. There was a lot of particles in the air so I told Núria that for sure we would have a very colourful sunset. And since we wanted it from the highest point we took it slow and enjoyed maybe a 10 km loop of Rasos de Peguera as this are is called.

The light slowly turns more and more soft and all of a sudden this fantastic orange light is all around. Núrias skis infront of me and I throw myself down in the snow to get her silhouette free from the trees. I knew straight away that it was a great angle and shot 10 frames or so. We then made our way over to the slope where we wanted to ski down. On the way the light turned completely red, the compact icy snow was glowing intensely. Completely surreal and very very beautiful. At 19.30 we where back at the house with a great experience and even more convinced that we have done a good choice to move here!

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Tamron 28-200 mm

Side note - I worked the photos and uploaded them to Flickr, Facebook and Instagram straight away. The morning after I woke up to a message from a friend saying he wanted to buy one of the photos to print in large size for his home! :)

Living in Berga

2018-02-25T14:32:00.000+01:00

Cim d'Estla just above Berga

So it finally happened - I live in the Pyrenees! And it happened in the best possible way, it was just about time to leave the house in El Bruc after 8 years and Núria and me wanted to look for a place to live together. I really wanted to make sure that we found a place with interesting nature just outside the door to make sure we could get to do fun mountain things on a daily basis. Hiking, climbing, skiing, biking... a bit of everything and not too far from Barcelona. And what a welcome we got, the snowfall 2 weeks ago was just insane and we have been able to enjoy it quite a few days. Below is a short video from the craziest day.

Last days schedule:
* Friday - skiing
* Saturday - skiing
* Sunday - climbing (south facing wall 15 minutes from home, in bare upper body...)
* Monday - skiing

Not too bad! So exactly where do we live? In a small town called Berga about 1h 30min north of Barcelona.

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Tamron 28-200mm
(A little side story - the lens is probably around 20 years old. When I was home visiting my parents in January my mother comes down from the attic with my last film-camera and wonders what I want to do with it. On it sits this big chunk of lens that I had totally forgotten! Now trying it out, feels like a fairly capable lens in good light conditions. Given how compact it is it works great to carry around on mountain days.)

Costa Blanca hiking

2018-01-06T13:59:00.000+01:00

Headed off to the Costa Blanca mountains above Benidorm/Albir for some days of hiking and climbing, a good combination of work and holiday. It's crazy how much the temperature changes in just a few hours of driving down from Catalonia! Beautiful hiking with surprisingly good trails and the closeness to the sea giving an impression of higher mountains. For sure worth to spend some time exploring in this area!

Tillsammans med flickvännen åker jag ner till Alicante-området för att scouta fram ett nytt vandringspaket för Costa Blanca-området. Det är bara 4 timmar med bil för oss ner men ändå är det mitt första besök. Och vilken skillnad på klimatet mot Katalonien, 10 C varmare direkt. Det är lätt att förstå att det är här som många svenskar valt att köpa lägenhet och hus! Vandringarna vi provade var riktigt bra, härlig utsikt och mycket bättre stigar än jag förväntade mig. Vi hittade också ett bra hus och en jättetrevlig engelsman som syr ihop allt - från hämtning på flygplatsen till boende, mat och guidning. Perfekt! Läs mer om vårt vandringspaket Vandring i Alicante.

Photos: Nikon D7000 with Nikkor 18-55 or Nikkor 35 mm

Swedish midwinter

2017-12-22T10:15:00.000+01:00

It's Christmas and this year I'm not going up to my native Sweden. The yearly Christmas celebration in our family cottage was for sure one of the highlights of my youth and it's a part of the world that I always will love, especially in winter. It's nice to have some photos to look at and share now. And I do look forward very much to visiting the north again further down the road this spring.

Photos taken with my old mobile phone, Nexus 5.

Tripod shooting

2017-12-12T14:36:00.002+01:00

In keeping with my tradition of buying photo gear that my friends doesn't use any more I ended up buying a very good and sturdy tripod last year. After more than a year in the wardrobe without putting it to use I finally brought it out to the mountains last weekend. Put on the trusty 35 mm lens on the old Nikon D7000 and got to work. Played a bit with light painting and then tried to catch the van, the rocks and my girlfriend posing. Exposure time around 4-5 seconds on both photos.

Montserrat photo shoot

2017-12-01T16:31:00.002+01:00

Headed up with my girlfriend for a hike and photoshoot the other day, experimenting a little bit with lenses and looking for the light. It started out grey but finally opened up and we got such a beautiful sunset. Took too many photos and the selection process and Lightroom work took it's time..

Sunrise towards Teide

2017-11-24T14:40:00.000+01:00

Early morning and finally some lights on the clouds that have been looming over the east coast of La Palma for almost 3 weeks. I grab my camera and head out to capture a stunning sunrise over Tenerife.

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: 18-55 DX (kit lens)

Clouds of La Palma

2017-11-13T16:27:00.000+01:00

Clouds during the fantastic Caldera-hike on La Palma.

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikkor DX 18-55

Fall colours

2017-10-24T11:43:00.000+02:00

Last couple of days we spent in the Pyrenées, hiking and climbing. A few photos from the amazing colours right now.

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikkor 35mm 1.8F

Montserrat morning

2017-10-08T19:46:00.000+02:00

Early morning on the north side of Montserrat with some amazing moving clouds at my feet.

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikkor 35mm 1.8F

Pedraforca - the iconic mountain

2017-10-04T19:45:00.000+02:00

Pedraforca is possibly the most iconic mountain in the Catalan part of the Pyrenees. Shot this photo at sunset from above the tiny village of Malanyeu, sitting on top of a little mountain waiting for the best possible light before hiking back to the van dark (with headlamp, luckily).

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lenas: Nikon E-series 70-210 about 40 years old...

Chamonix snowshoing(!)

2017-08-23T09:56:00.001+02:00

After seeing the fantastic photo that Ted Hesser took of the solar eclipse in the US I realise that I might be the laziest photographer ever. So here is one of my few, few photos actually taken only for commercial purpose. It was a good 2 minute of work setting up the photo...

Location: Chamonix
Models: Dahn and Gustav
Camera: Nikon D7000 with a 35 mm lens.

Midsummer night

2017-08-14T14:45:00.000+02:00

Visiting my native Sweden for midsummer we got to experience some beautiful sunsets by the lake house.

Camera: Olympus TG-4

Returning to the hut

2017-08-10T14:44:00.001+02:00

After a proper alpine start at 05.15 we made it up to Pollux, 4091 meter, just after sunrise. Here we have the last meters of glacier left before stepping back onto firm ground and a knee-breaking 1800 vertical meter hike back down to the valley. A beautiful morning for sure!

Camera: Olymps TG-4

Diving in a mountain lake

2017-08-04T19:20:00.000+02:00

While working as a hiking guide in the central Pyrenees we had some great swims in the lakes. A client dove in and I had my little Olympus TG-4 ready under water. Insanely lucky shot, I really like it!