Mastodawn

PositivDenken 🤯May 17

After I’ve been struggling to motivate myself for work I’ve decided to set an end to this, make better use of my time and rather than drowning myself in guilt and pity go hiking instead. You’ll find me on Sörmlandsleden the coming weeks. Plan is to do all the 600km of the main track. We’ll see how it goes.

#sörmlandsleden

PositivDenken 🤯May 17

Met my friend again. Just when I left home. 💕

PositivDenken 🤯May 17

Home sweet home

PositivDenken 🤯May 17

Waiting for dinner to be ready

PositivDenken 🤯May 19

Sörmland’s forest art

PositivDenken 🤯May 19

The Two-Face of trees

PositivDenken 🤯May 19

Need to get past Södertälje today. Not my favorite stretch. Thus I’m treating myself with a burger at my favorite place.

The burger was fantastic. As always.

PositivDenken 🤯May 19

Home sweet home. It was another long day. But shorter than I thought. There’s a spot next to a recycling facility which is quite noisy but otherwise beautiful. It’s not as loud as I feared and I’ve got ear plugs.

PositivDenken 🤯May 20

A young(?) female(?) moose(?).

#moose #älg #sormland #sormlandsleden

PositivDenken 🤯May 20

Swedish “streetart” again

PositivDenken 🤯May 20

Was another tough day. On the yay side, had my first bird bath and now I feel at least somewhat fresh and clean again.

PositivDenken 🤯May 22

Gear failure. Either my phone or my power bank is shit. Something drained all my batteries. So now I have to be very conservative. Leaving the phone off most of the day. 😒

PositivDenken 🤯May 22

Lucky me, not completely unexpected, found a power outlet to remedy my situation. Sort of.

Another beautiful camp spot, took another bird bath and washed my clothes.

PositivDenken 🤯May 22

Yesterday was rather challenging, got into hard rain and thunderstorms while being very exposed. Kept on raining until nightfall. Managed to pitch tarp and hammock nonetheless without anything getting wet. Little proud of myself. Had a fantastic spot and could watch birds all morning, after a 12 hours sleep. No pics for obvious reasons.

PositivDenken 🤯May 22

Dinner time

PositivDenken 🤯May 23

Don’t wanna leave this place. Can’t I just be lazy today and listen to birds all day?

PositivDenken 🤯May 23

Wolf 🐺

There’s even some pieces of bones in it. 😱

#wolf #varg #ulv

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

Soon! 🤤

#bloomscrolling

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

Made it to Malmköping. Lady at the front desk of the camping lets me charge my power bank. 🥰

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

Lost my little blue beloved ditty bag. 😭😫🤬

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

Omg, got it back *mwah*

Lost it at the campground when I left my power bank to charge.

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

But then I plugged in the power bank with the wrong port and now it didn’t charge at all 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Would have been too nice. I hate this new power bank!

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

Childhood dream?

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

A squirrel 🐿️ a day keeps the doctor away (sorry, no pic)

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

The spot with a beautiful view on the lake, but awfully exposed and it’s gusts of 10m/s right now, or the sheltered one next to the outhouse? 🤷‍♂️

#questions #questions #questions

PositivDenken 🤯May 24

That spot (the latter) is also heavily infested by ants 🐜

All hail to hammocks!

PositivDenken 🤯May 26

One of my favorite places on trail, the bogs around Hälleforsnäs.

#sörmland #sörmlandsleden

PositivDenken 🤯May 26

Plucked four ticks off of my body yesterday 🤯

PositivDenken 🤯May 26

All of my equipment plus myself is so full of birch pollen I think I’m slowly turning into one.

jacob_romano May 26

PositivDenken 🤯

Today was mostly just clear cuts. 30km of devastation. The dark side of Sweden.

#deforestation #skogsindustrin

PositivDenken 🤯May 26

But I managed to take a bath and clean not just myself but also my underwear. There was a school class hogging the place with like 20 tents and one even caught me changing. 🫣

PositivDenken 🤯May 27

A little different camp today

PositivDenken 🤯May 27

Swedish country side. Like from the picture book.

PositivDenken 🤯May 27

And another squirrel 🐿️

PositivDenken 🤯May 27

This birch tree decided to abandon its main trunk in favor of two branches. For reasons!

PositivDenken 🤯May 29

I love that sign.

PositivDenken 🤯May 29

More trail art.

PositivDenken 🤯May 29

Hjortron! 🤤

PositivDenken 🤯May 29

Had a wonderful swim at a lake and took a sun bath. All nekid ☺️🫣. Had pizza at a gas station and recharged my phone. 🥳. The designated camp site was awful so I went another 6 km to a much better place.

PositivDenken 🤯May 31

Breakfast with a view.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

Haven’t posted much lately due to the battery situation. This power bank (Flextail) is really shit.

So I made it past Nävekvarn. Had a burger there and bought some 5€ Granola. 🤪 (it’s very yummy though)

Now I’m in Nyköping, trying to charge my shit again. Also my feet hurt. Thus taking it slow today. Slept a fantastic 12 hours straight.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

Bråviken in this beautiful weather was just fantastic. Reminded me a bit of Gotland. Need to get back there. So I sorta decided to do a bike tour next months.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

A so called jättegryta (pot of a giant). Ice age melt waters running under the glaciers have whirlpools that with the use of loose stones carve deep holes into the rocks.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

Pustekuchen

#bloomscrolling

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

My app suggests „wild forget-me-not“

#bloomscrolling #forgetmenot #teveronika

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 4

Last days were really exhausting. Now the weather changed, started raining early in the morning and didn’t stop yet. Decided to take the road instead of the trail. My shoes are too slippery and also because my legs are just too tired. Made it to Trosa and decided to take a bus home rather than staying at an expensive hotel. Maybe I’ll continue next week. We‘ll see. It’s just two days left … 😅🤪

Magnus Kronnäs Jun 8

@zeank Men det var en härlig vandring du fick till! Börja i Södertälja och sluta Trosa, två platser som jag sjä'lv tycker mycket om ...

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 8

@krm Trosa är verkligen vackert och mysigt. Skulle gå tillbaks med min pojkvän någon gång.

Magnus Kronnäs Jun 8

@zeank Det finns många små vägar där som är rätt så roliga. Om du har möjligt att bå biligt där så kan det vara rätt så kul att bara gå och titta på samhället.

Plantwizard Jun 1

@zeank I'm pretty sure that's some kind of veronica and not a forget-me-knot (myosotis genus).

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

@Plantwizard my app said it‘s teveronika, which translates to Wildes Vergissmeinnicht in German. So my guess was it what be similar in English.

Plantwizard Jun 1

@zeank That's interesting. I've seen other Mastondon pictures of myosotis species labeled Vergissmeinnight but I've never seen any pictures of veronica labeled as any kind of forget-me-knot. If you compared the flowers in real life they're definitely quiet different. I think your app lead you astray.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

@Plantwizard the app classified them as Veronica chamaedrys, in Swedish teveronika. That we call it wildes Vergissmeinnicht in German doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a true Vergissmeinnicht. I have a picture of actual Vergissmeinnicht some posts above.

Plantwizard Jun 1

@zeank Ok that makes sense. In English I don't think we ever call any veronica a forget-me-knot. I always though it interesting that English and German both called myositis Forget-Me-Not. Direct translations.

@zeank oh no, I just picked up one of those 😭

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 1

@jds well would love to hear how it works for you. Maybe I just a bad one?

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 5

@jds after a bit more testing it looks a lot like the issue is indeed low temps. And here I’m talking about ~10°C (~50°F), which I don’t consider particularly low. None of my previous power banks ever had problems with temperatures like that. With this one though it looks like it just collapses when charge drops below 25%. Since it’s marketed as an outdoor product that’s more than just a joke.

@zeank that does suck. I keep all my electronics in a sack I sleep with for that reason but I agree 10C shouldn’t be near cold enough to cause that. Mine was ‘ok’ for a 3 day trip just to charge my phone 1.5 times. Not great, but about what I expected for 10k mah. It got really hot while charging my phone though. I could see it having issues in the summer maybe.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 7

@jds it’s got two modes, while charging press the power button (twice?) to switch to “efficiency mode” and the led indicator next to the outlet will switch from green to orange. This way it will charge slower and not get that hot. They claim it will also charge your phone more often this way. German UL forum says otherwise though.

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 7

@jds And yes, of course, if it’s really cold I charge having everything inside my sleeping bag. But I was sleeping in my hammock and there this is not so easy. And I usually only needed this in the past when temps reached freezing.

They claim theirs is “cold proof” down to -10°C (10°F)

PositivDenken 🤯Jun 7

@jds complained to their customer support but they insist I send them a video documenting the behavior. 🤦‍♂️

Åsa Magnusson Jun 1

@zeank Oh, Nävekvarn is pretty; been a few years since I was there though.

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@zeank
Thank you for sharing all these great pictures.

Åsa Magnusson May 27

@zeank These Swedish country side-photos make me think of the film adaption of the Astrid Lindgren story Rasmus på luffen. ☺️

httpster May 27

@zeank Det var en ny för mig. Hammok INUTI vindskyddet! 4/5!

Oliver Seiler May 28

@zeank I've frozen my a** off in one of these. That weekend taught me a few lessons in winter tramping 😬

PositivDenken 🤯May 28

@oseiler I’ve had some very cold nights in those too. 😅

Oliver Seiler May 28

@zeank to be fair it was due to my own stupidity and lack of experience but the second I saw your photo memories haunted me 😅😬

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Such things always happen to me too. I was with some girls and their horses at the lake (I rode my bike that day).
Of course I jumped in there naked. 2 minutes later a huge group of hikers arrived and were very happy to have something to take photos of. 3 girls on horses and a Fluffy.

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PositivDenken 🤯May 26

@HurricaneWeasel golden rule of hiking: if you haven’t seen another person in days, just try to take a shit right next to the trail. The moment your pants are down, magically another hiker appears.

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Brian Davis May 26

@zeank that's typically logging practice around here too. Always heartbreaking.