Skating, Biskops-Arnö, Jan 5th

Saturday afternoon session on Erken around Biskops-Arnö and Ryssviken.. Mostly good ice with some open and too thin areas.. We covered 23 kilometres before it got too dark..

Skating, Närdingen, Dec 23rd

Me and Ricky headed to Erken on Saturday morning where I though we'd find the full lake nicely frozen, but that turned out not to be the case.. A quick review of maps and we went to Närdingen close by which had really nice conditions, despite the light rain and a few degrees above freezing point.. About 1 hour and some 15 kilometers of skating later we wrapped it up, to get back ot final christmas preparations in Stockholm..

Nordic Skating, Ekoln, Dec 17, 2016

A lot of driving in search of ice this day, Erken was still open, Närdingen had some half-decent ice with partially melted and re-frozen snow, Hammarskog had some very nice new clear ice but on a limited area, and from Ryssviken north towards Oxen we could stretch out a bit.

Kayaksailing, Lake Erken, November 2nd

Kayak sailing for a few hours on Lake Erken.. Light winds but still nice to be out after a proper cold.. Trying out the new genoa from Kayaksailor.com, works nicely..

XC-Skating, Tämnaren & Erken, January 6th

Finally the planets aligned to allow for some XC-Skating, after an early season wiped out by snow followed by warm temperatures.. With Emil & Jon I drove first to lake Tämnaren, north of Uppsala. It was skateable, but with fairly rough ice covered by a little bit of ice.. We made a loop around the islands, about 8 kilometres, and then headed back to the starting point.. Whisking south-east to lake Erken, conditions proved a lot better with the melted snow re-frozen as pretty good ice.. We took the lap around the lake counter-clock wise with a lunch stop on the western side, distance covered was 27 kilometres.. Overall, great start of the season!

XC-Skating, Erken, 10th of March

Short XC-skating session with Jon on Lake Erken, north of Norrtälje.. Been warm a couple of days so unfortunately the ice was soft and covered with plenty of water.. Shame, nice site otherwise..