{"id":9807,"date":"2018-02-27T22:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=9807"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:22:20","slug":"daily_1176_-_idre_day_3_-_even_colder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/daily_1176_-_idre_day_3_-_even_colder\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1176 – Idre, day 3 – even colder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did I say it was cold yesterday? I take it back. Yesterday wasn’t cold. Today is cold.<\/p>\n

Temperatures in the Arctic are 20°C above normal, and all the cold air that should be there has ended up down in Europe instead. Plus it’s windy. There were signs posted at the lift stations to cover all exposed body parts and check each others’ noses and cheeks for frostbite.<\/p>\n

We took the lift up to the top of the mountain just once today, and those 10 minutes were enough to convince me to not do it again. Normally when I’m out in the cold, I feel it gradually. Now I went straight from slightly cold to stiff, numb and painful, like my fingers were going to fall off. When we came back down we went straight to a warm shelter. Having thawed, we made a firm decision to stay down in the vales for the rest of the day, away from the biting cold wind.<\/p>\n

The cold is energy-sapping, exhausting. I didn’t notice it so much during the day, but when we got back to our hut, I just collapsed into the sofa.<\/p>\n

The photo – of the family walking off the slope to take the last lift back “home” – is from yesterday. I took no photos today; there’s no way I’m taking off my mittens long enough to take photos in this weather. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did I say it was cold yesterday? I take it back. Yesterday wasn’t cold. Today is cold. Temperatures in the Arctic are 20°C above normal, and all the cold air that should be there has ended up down in Europe instead. Plus it’s windy. There were signs posted at the lift stations to cover all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,15,773,768,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-skiing_downhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","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=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}