Åre, Day two.

Second day was a resting day, we spent the morning to fix the bikes, I switched my rear bike pads, Tobbe swapped oil in his Fox40 fork and Andreas did the same work on his Boxxer.



New and old pads, guess which is which! ;)


"I squish you!"


Åre beach!


Tobbe seemed to have lost his head!


Made a road trip to Lundhags. Strange power line poles on the way there!


Åreskutan basking in the sun.


Kristin packing her bike in a bag for taking on the train home, and then she will come back to Åre for some hiking, she really must like going by train. ;)


The boys make sure she does everything right. =)


Our new Room mate bribed us with beer, thanks David.


Later we got a visit from the Ö-vik-boys.


The dudes from Göteborg also found us! Full house! =)


That's almost it, a few more photos here:

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Who knows what day 3 might bring? (Even if some hints is already posted. :))

Åre, Day 1

On Saturday we spent the first day on the mountain, there was a degree of moist in the air but it was still enjoyable! :)

Lot's of mud and wet roots made the descents more exciting than necessary sometimes but no major crashes.

Morning, view out of the bedroom window, staright across the road lays Systembolaget. =)

Finally in the lift on the way up! The cabin that goes straight up to the top was closed for bikes so we had to go up in stages to get all the way up to the top.


JoMenSåAtt got some troubble right away, the rear brake made some strange noise, we spent a few minutes fixing it at Hummeln.


Used the moment to try catch some of the views.


It was slightly misty on the top


A few runs later we were all covered with mud! We run into Marran at the bottom of the hill and he joined us for the rest of the day, Me, the_TnT and JoMenSåAtt.



A short photo stop at Hjulingen.


Marran crosses Bräckebäck.


the_TnT after we stod on the side of the trail to get some photos.


Marran get the first and last flat tire of the day. We thought we would make it down, and manage to catch the last gondola up to the top again but we missed it with just a few minutes.


So we took the French Connection back to Fjällängen.


Finnished with a burger at Broken.

Tobbes blog entry: http://grumt.blogspot.com/2010/08/areleran.html

Gesunda II

A loosely planned trip to Njupeskär this Sunday was cancelled so to make something on Sunday I deiced to go to Gesuda again.

The weather hadn't been the best if one likes sun but while driving north towards Mora the skies slowly cleared up, some ominous clouds still lingering about...


A bit windy and a slightly more humane temperature of 16-17 degrees Celsius at 10 o'clock AM this sunday compared to last weekend.

While I was shooting the mountain from the open car window a big insect hit me hard, thankfully I managed to keep the car on the road but now I was worried I had a angry wasp somewhere in the car! Had to pull over and locate the insect and it turned out to be a groggy bee! =)


First thing I see when parking at the foot of the hill is a horse!


More bikers from Ludvika, they had a slight dilemma, one of the bikes were locked with a big ABUS lock but the key was some 2h car ride away... They managed to get hold of a angle grinder and cut the lock and save the day, wonder what the tool owner though?! ;)


There was more prominent guests at Gesunda, a triple from Gothenburg was spending their weekend here, PelleHå, pbeijer and Obed had arrived on Saturday! Here we are waiting for our lunch, except pbeijer since he got someone else's pizza!


There were some wind gusts and one of the huge parasols fell on it's side!


To prevent that from happening to our parasol we folded it, somehow PelleHå got stuck inside!


pbeijjer and PelleHå makes a few dry runs on the practice ski lift. ;)


Testing the regular lifts.


Preparing for decent!


Obed on "Skogsmys".


PelleHå.


pbeijer


Same trail further down.


This was once just a barely visible trail through the heather.


Now it's a full blown highway with berms! :)


Still fun, the rain from last day dried up fast.




A few wet spots here and there though.


Nothing that was worth avoiding, I was still quite clean even if the bike was muddy.


But that was until I stood here to take a shot of pbeijer, one can just barely see the cloud of dirt coning against me here! Now I was covered in mud, almost... :)


Still same trail further down.


Got a bit too close. Alway a challenge to try capture action shots with a compact camera.


Here Obed's fork decided to loose almost all it's stroke, it had been acting weird a while before it, thankfully it was at the end of the day.

PelleHå tries to stare me down in "Arga-leken"


We kept going on the "Skogsmys" while Obed rolled down to the local bike shed.




Testing some "Spray & pray" with the Casio:s 30 frames/sec burst mode. PelleHå jumps on one of the last jumps in "Magic Carpet" before the corner jump.


That was about all I shot that day in Gesunda. This time I didn't have to go swim in the lake since I could borrow a shower in the cabin they had rented, what a luxury! :)

Way more fun to ride with friends than alone, not as many decents as when one is alone but clearly worth it! ;)

Thanks again fellows for the company, I gave some vague threats that I would come and visit them in Göteborg later this summer, hopefully enjoy some of the great trails they have there!

On the way home I went to Romma for a visit at Roberts sister, think I will post a separete entry about that...