Time for open number twenty-one, and secure that your life will be fun.

Today I will give you some suggestion for last minute Christmas gifts:

Number two:

Primus gas lantern.

And the third:

Via Ferrata at Skuleberget, use the link for ordering:

http://viaferrata.se/en

”Never underestimate the one who get up at 05.30 for a workout”

Don’t forget to do some reflection and be thankful. Today life goes on as a train in speed. Sometimes just need to sit and look into the horizon. Just sit and let the thoughts just come and go. We must take us time to land within ourselves. Live with yourself and the nature, it is there you find the calm..

And you skip the rules, if you do as everybody else you end up as everybody else…Enjoy and challenge…

This day music is a real good one, enjoy..

See ya tomorrow…

Well it is time for number 20, and don’t go to the adventure to empty…

It has been a hard week, due to training and work. Overall nine workouts and 590 minutes. mentally it is a challenge, I feel tired..but it is now the experience and skills will be the best of friends..

Today it will be about fast and light, I have talked about this before but it is important. With the sky running and record all the time to the top of the mountains, this will become a risk. When the ”normal” adventurers will try this, we will see more accidents. With too little equipment, and less experienced people there will be more work for the mountain rescue organisations. All of us aint so good as Ueli Steck:-) even with the best of ice-axes:-)

When speed and light-pack will be more common there will be more rescue activities.

We most all ask ourselves; why are we doing the adventure for the speed or for the treat? Maybe slow adventure with fully feeling will be the best…

Upcoming events:

Abisko ice climbing festival 25-28/2 2016:

http://www.abiskoiceclimbing.com/

Sweden Outdoor fair 11-13/3:

http://www.vildmarksmassan.se/

See ya tomorrow..

Time to open door 19.

Today was a tough day. But the mind got its victory over the body. 05.15 I went up for lugging the car wheel for almost two hours. In the afternoon a workout at the gym was done. Next step was to do cross country running, so at all three work outs- a great day. but I am exhausted.

I was reading in the Swedish outdoor magazine; ”Ute magasinet” in this nummer it was about skating. The Editor in chief wrote that it is very important to take responsibility by your own and don’t trust a guide. I like to challenge that statement. I think a educated and skilled and experienced guide will know more than most of us. But it is important to check the guides skills and experience, that is your responsibility in such a case.  So whenever using a guide you always should check the guides knowledge.

Get yourself a guide to relay on…

I also have read a good book about leadership under stress. Something that a part of the outdoor activities as a guide, or a practitioner. We  all got different abilities to handle situations under stress. But from a leadership perspective, the ones with grounded self-confidence and by worked moral and ethical values will handle this type of situations in a better way. There is also mentioned a capacity called ”sensational seeking” this is a character that will strive for to find dangerous or challenges situations. Normally this will not be good leaders under stress. So you have to got a stable inner compass to be good of handling stressed situation. You can also train your ability by meditation and relaxing exercises. I will write more about this..

Secure to have a stable inner compass…..

And today some old music..

See ya tomorrow..

Times fly, and today we open door eighteen. seen

1884 The explorer Adolf Erik Nordensköld arrange a competition about 220K skiing.

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

The reason was for that people did not believe in there hardship at the journey to Greenland. And 2016 the race will be a fact again. It will start and end in Jokkmokk Sweden. 10th of april 2016 its time for the race, again after 132 in rest:-) Something to enjoy?

Today the workout was a hard one. combined exercise at evolve ugh..rowing lifting and push-ups in twenty two minutes..

Tomorrow is a hard workout upcoming, and I am tired. But the fight between my mind and body, the mind will win. I always know that..

See ya tomorrow..

Today we open door seventeen and see what history for us can mean..

1786 can be seen as the start of the mountaineering history. At this time the Mont Blanc was climbed, and now it become a activity to count for. For Sweden it all begun at 1883 with the first ascend of Kebnekaise of Charles Rabot.

Charles Rabot at the summit of Kebnekaise 1883.

In the beginning the climbing in Sweden was just done in the northern part in the Swedish mountains. In 1930 we started to climb cliffs for training for adventures in alps and prepare for the mountains in the northern part of Sweden. At Häggstaberget in Stockholm Botkyra the explorers prepaired for upcoming adventures in high mountain environments.

Becoming a mountain manager at this time, was a hard work with life at stakes…

See ya tomorrow..

Today it is 8 days to Christmas, and today it is about safety and a modern explorer..

When it comes to Mountain/outdoor safety it begins with planning, Preparing and to predict. Normal risk management from that point of view. Planning, is to understand risk-factors and train for the special adventure or area you are going to. Preparing is train for difficulties, both physical and psychological. And over all knowledge, and experience of equipment etc. You can also train your ability of predicting risk and difficulties. The more difficulties you have been exposure of the better skills you got over all..

You can also build your own safety kit. And I think you always should have some kind of communication equipment for rescue with you. such as a spot tracker.

The training today was real tough. 3 stations about 12 minutes with row-machine, Ski-machine and cycle. oughh!!

One of the real explores in Sweden is Oskar Kihlborg, the second swede on the top of Mount Everest. He has always some new challenge upcoming. Like when he did go between Gothenburg and Stockholm by longboard…

Oskar Kihlborg on a cleaning up journey at Kebnekaise…

See ya tomorrow..

A busy day yesterday, but here come the calendar.

Today this day I was thinking about leadership and training. Is it not funny that the only way to get praise is to got a personal trainer:-). We are not so generous with praise to our colleagues and friends as we should be. And as guide and adventure partner this one of the most important factors to encourage to new limits.

And the music today, horse jazz..

See ya

Today it is time to open number 14, and today the life is mean:-). The challenge this week was to row 2k(with rowing-machine). The target was to reach sub 7 minutes. Started up controlled, and it felt good. After 900m it started to become tough. The speed went down a little and the payment for it got expensive. Trying to sprint the last meters did not help. The result: 7.04. Damn. But at least I have a good reason for train more:-). The mind: 4 seconds it is not physical, it is psychological…

The Swedish tourist association has got a new homepage with lots of good stuff:

https://www.svenskaturistforeningen.se/lara/

And at the end some music:

See ya tomorrow..

Today we celebrate the ”St Lucia” day in Sweden. Coffee and the star-guy and the ginger-cookie man will come for a visit:-).

The challenge this week was a swimming and gym workout. So 1000m swimming and a tough bench-press workout, it did feels. So why all this training all the time? Well the answer will come:-). The training over all this week results in: 10 workouts within 6 days, and 10 h and 14 minutes of totally training.

Today I will give you a chronicle over leadership. When it comes to outdoor/adventure leadership it is applicable even to business. The big difference will be the effects of making wrong decisions. In the adventure environment it can result in serious injure, or even death. Whatever you got the same challenges in both areas. To begin with, becoming a leader or a guide it is important to have first of all in mind:

Now it is not all about YOU, it is all about others…

As a guide or a leader, you must be encouraging, motivating and developing. Your self and others.

Another thing to have control of in the business as well in the mountains, will be fear. Fear have ruin a lot, you must be brave. Brave to say yes, but most important to say NO. In the business it is always a choice of prioritization. If not saying NO, nothing will be delivered or done in a proper way. The same as a guide, when a client try to go further than his or her ability, YOU must say no. So here it comes to physical and psychological training. The better prepared you are, the better decision will be done of you. The more difficulties you exposure your self with, the better leader you will become. A mountain-leader got the advantage to do failure. Either you reach the summit, or you fail. And out of that you become stronger and more prepared.

And as a leader you most show the way..

Developing and lead by example, that is what I try..

It is also very important for the leader to build up a strong group felling and get all to be happy, and get the challenge in the right level for everyone.

So when it comes to choosing guide, consider all this things. Who will be the one to guide you for your adventure:-)

And now over to this weeks contest:

How high is the official number of Kebnekaise. And who was the first official to reach the summit of Helags? send answer as SMS to +46 73-701 28 50

See ya tomorrow..

Today we open the door number twelve, and got some news in the outdoor world…

The only swedes over 8000m this year had been Fredrik Strang and Daniel Akerman. And from now on Mc Kinley has its old namn back, so the official name is Denali. the height has been measured to 6190m.

Hopefully it will become more chill weather, and some ice. If you want to ice-climb, Abisko can be a good alternative.

http://www.abiskomountainlodge.se/sv/aktiviteter/vinter/#isklattring/

The workout today result in three different activities; long distance running, E-FIT and hill intervals with weight cuffs. Great:-)

Tomorrow it will be about management and leadership…

See ya..