{"id":7591,"date":"2016-07-10T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:26:11","slug":"daily_610_-_camping_in_tyresta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/daily_610_-_camping_in_tyresta\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 610 – camping in Tyresta"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new attempt at camping today, with more success.<\/p>\n

We camped at lake \u00c5rsj\u00f6n in Tyresta, a nature reserve south of Stockholm.<\/p>\n


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The camping site was a 3 km hike from the parking lot at the end of the road. At first the path was wide and even, accessible even to wheelchairs and baby buggies, frankly rather boring. After a while we turned off onto a smaller path that was more akin to what I expect a forest path to be like: up and down, across stones and pine roots. The path was still very easy to follow with were red markers on the trees all along, so the kids could walk ahead when they wanted.<\/p>\n


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The forest was full of bilberries. Our hike followed the most popular and accessible paths right near the entrance to the nature reserve, where hundreds of people pass every day, so I would have expected the berries to be gone. But no, the bushes were full of berries wherever we looked. Plump, ripe, juicy, sweet, hanging right there at the edge of the path, they were just screaming at us – “Eat me!” We kept stopping because we just couldn’t pass them by.<\/p>\n


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When we got to the \u00c5rsj\u00f6n camping site we pitched our tent and unpacked. Ingrid and I decided to sleep in the tent; Adrian and Eric chose to sleep in the lean-to. Ingrid carved in tree bark while Eric made a fire and I walked around taking photos. We grilled sausages and foil-wrapped meals I had prepared at home (potato, salmon, broccoli and bell peppers). For dessert we grilled bananas with melted chocolate, and mini marshmallows.<\/p>\n

After dinner I wanted to walk some more so Ingrid and I went geocaching. We quickly got one cache very close to the camping site. Another one was close as the crow flies, but unfortunately on the other side of the lake. We stood on the rocky lakeshore and seriously considered just swimming across – it was at the narrowest part of the lake, literally 20 metres away from us. Had I been there alone I would have done it without a second thought. But with Ingrid, and unknown deep waters, and us all alone in the forest, I didn’t dare do it.<\/p>\n

So we did it the hard way – hiked several kilometers around the entire lake. At first there was a path; then the path went off in the wrong direction so we just followed the GPS right through the bush. It wasn’t dense or rough or anything, just a bit uneven ground. Except then there was a bog in our way with no path through. We really, really did not want to go all the way around and were super happy when Ingrid spotted something that was almost a footbridge (two planks and a narrow tree trunk). We took off our shoes, turned up our trousers, and made our way across.<\/p>\n

We got the cache in the end but the whole walk took us about three hours instead of the one and a half I had planned. Had it not been a clear night near midsummer, it would have been dark when we got back. We went straight to our sleeping bags. In retrospect, we should just have swum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new attempt at camping today, with more success. We camped at lake \u00c5rsj\u00f6n in Tyresta, a nature reserve south of Stockholm. The camping site was a 3 km hike from the parking lot at the end of the road. At first the path was wide and even, accessible even to wheelchairs and baby buggies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,775,773,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-eric","category-outdoors","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","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=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7593,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}