{"id":12636,"date":"2020-04-08T19:41:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:16:25","slug":"daily_1914_-_sormlandsleden_12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/04\/08\/daily_1914_-_sormlandsleden_12\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1914 &#8211; S\u00f6rmlandsleden 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1914_Sormlandsleden_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1914_Sormlandsleden_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nToday promised beautiful weather, warm and sunny, so I took the day off and went walking.<\/p>\n<p>I have quite flexible working arrangements and this has always been possible, but I&#8217;ve almost never taken advantage of it. Somehow taking a day off feels like a smaller step when I&#8217;ve already been working from home anyway, with my afternoon walking and cycling breaks.<\/p>\n<p>After a longish break from walking the S\u00f6rmlandsleden, I did another section today. I&#8217;ve done all the easy-to-reach low-numbered sections. The ones ahead of me now cannot easily be reached with public transport, and some cannot even be reached by car. The best way to walk them would probably be multi-day hikes. But I only have one day, so I just simply walked section 12 twice. There and back again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1914_Sormlandsleden_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nSection 12 starts near J\u00e4rna, in an old iron mining district. For the first kilometer or two, the woods are pockmarked with small water-filled mining pits, most just a few metres across. There were several informational plaques here and there as well. I skimmed a few; the oldest one I noticed was dated 1985. That was a really durable, well-made sign, with the text and images etched into metal. No flimsy plastic signs here.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1914_Sormlandsleden_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe rest of the section is pretty standard S\u00f6rmland pine forest with blueberry undergrowth. There were several lakes here and there offering resting places with nice views.<\/p>\n<p>Much of it was quiet, as pine forest tends to be, except for the soughing of the wind, although I heard blue tits and finches in a few places.<\/p>\n<p>Section 12 is 8.5 km according to the official notes. Adding another kilometre to walk from the parking spot I found to the beginning of section 12, and then doubling it all, brought the total to 20 km. A good distance for one day, especially when the walking is as hilly and rocky as this was.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1914_Sormlandsleden_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today promised beautiful weather, warm and sunny, so I took the day off and went walking. I have quite flexible working arrangements and this has always been possible, but I&#8217;ve almost never taken advantage of it. Somehow taking a day off feels like a smaller step when I&#8217;ve already been working from home anyway, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768,781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-sormlandsleden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12636\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}