the joy of hiking again

Since I was quite busy for the whole week I will summarize the last one and a half week briefly.
Last weekend we did another hiking trip - again to Söderasens national park - to enjoy the nice(sunny!) weather and get our rusty body moving. This time Brice(France) and Hermann(Soizbuag) joined us. We had a marvelous time sitting around the fire, drinking some wine and having a nice conversations with a Swedish family while improving our understanding of the Swedish society. The night was again very clear and therefore also very cold, so we where happy to have the fire(and the fire-wood being supported by the local authority - god bless the welfare state ;)). It was also the first time we could test our tent in action and I am still getting more and more enthusiastic about it - every detail is at the right place!
The thing I knew after the first night outside with such temperatures (around 5°C) was that I need a better sleeping bag since I was freezing a bit although I wore my thick fleece-pullover and my hood. The once I have right now is from my father and quite good as long as it's warm enough. The temperature range is comfort 20°C, transitional -5°C and extreme -10°C but no way to use it at such temperatures. Maybe it's because it's already a few years old and the down has lost some of it's warming capabilities, maybe it's because it has been compressed all the time, which is not good for sleeping bags, maybe it's just because it's old.
Anyway, today I bought a new sleeping bag in Malmö which has it's comfort temperature at -9°C and should therefore have some reserves left for real cold nights :). It is a "Marmot Wave 4" and was only 75 euro (special price - seasonal sale). Annina bought also a warm sleeping bag, but a special short one - 1,6m ;).

Since I am not only having party up here but studying at the university I also have exams and the first one was yesterday. It was a quite hard one, but more on that tomorrow.

As usual some photos from our trip last weekend:

hermann to the left

and finally Brice. Most photos are stolen from Brice. If you speak french than you can also check out his side (with a report written in French) here