Mastodawn

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.

#moose #älg #sormland #sormlandsleden

PositivDenken 🤯May 20

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

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.

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. 😒

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.

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.

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

Soon! 🤤

#bloomscrolling

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

Lost my little blue beloved ditty bag. 😭😫🤬

Omg, got it back *mwah*

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

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!

Childhood dream?

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

#questions #questions #questions

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? 🤷‍♂️

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

All hail to hammocks!

#sörmland #sörmlandsleden

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

Plucked four ticks off of my body yesterday 🤯

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

#deforestation #skogsindustrin

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

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. 🫣

A little different camp today

Swedish country side. Like from the picture book.

And another squirrel 🐿️

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

I love that sign.

More trail art.

Hjortron! 🤤

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.

#bråviken

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.

JDS Jun 1

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

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.

#gearFailure

JDS Jun 7

@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.