Guess what we had today? Sunlight! Clear skies from morning till evening.

I went for a long walk around northern Järvafältet, mostly following the Järvaleden trail. Säbysjön to Översjön to Fäboda to Väsby gård to Hägerstalund and back to Säbysjön. Four and a half hours with barely a pause (because it’s cold to sit still in this weather) so maybe 18 km?

The temperatures have been around zero for a while. The ground was frozen in the shadier places that the sun doesn’t reach at all, and a bit muddy in sunnier spots. Even then, it was mostly just a thin layer of mud at the top and decently firm, frozen ground beneath it. Which was good, because I went out in my barefoot shoes, which are barely more than socks with a rubber sole and definitely not waterproof. But I managed to keep my feet dry.

Some of the smaller streams and ponds were covered in a thin layer of ice, but overall this winter is not wintering.

Last year I could go out skiing on Järvafältet in December. I know I skied on the ice on lake Översjön. This year there’s no ice in sight.

The woods near Hägerstalund look less like they’d harbour elves this time of the year, but I could imagine trolls, or ogres, I guess.