Ice skating

February has been freezing in Stockholm. We don't have much snow, but the ice on lake Drevviken looked very inviting yesterday. I read the ice report, and it said that there were three ploughed paths for the ice skaters to enjoy. You need to be fit to try your luck at the longest one at 22km. The lake covers four municipalities, Stockholm, Tyresö, Huddinge and my neck of the woods, Haninge. While on the bike near Skogås I could see a lot of people walking on the frozen lake and half an hour later I parked the eBike near the circular pier and walked out for a closer look. It was a beautiful Winter day, although a few degrees too cold for my liking, around freezing.

Winter Fun

I spotted this group at Lake Drevviken at Ulrikedal yesterday. Ice skaters practising to get up from the freezing water. Something you need to know before skating on natural ice. It was a little colder yesterday. Maybe 3C. The bike ride was a bit chilly. But you get warm after an hour or so.

Lake Drevviken

The first weekend forecast that I read promised sunny weather and around 5C for Saturday. In the end, the sun stayed away for most of the time that I was out and about. And it was no more than 2C. But I still managed 75 kilometers on the eBike. Roughly 22 kilometers in, I stopped at the circular pier at Lake Drevviken. It rained all day Friday, so much of the snow is gone. But the ice was still thick enough for a few ice skaters out on the lake. You can check the quality of the ice online, it is updated daily, so I hope everyone was okay. The building on the top photo is famous. It was the first ever terrace house built in Sweden. It dates back to the 1950s. The architect was Axel Kandell.

At the office

"I saw your email and I totally agree. We need to deal with this immediately. I am in the office right now looking at it, and I think we can fix this before close of business".
As seen while standing on the circular jetty at Lake Drevviken taking photos while being observed by a dog earlier this week.

Ice skaters and a skate sailor

On this day last year, on my way home from Stockholm, on the ebike, I made a stop at the beach at Hökarängsbadet. Yesterday, on my way to Stockholm on the ebike, I stopped at the same lake, which is called Drevviken. This time further south, and at a new, (ish), circular jetty that I have only seen from a distance before, as this area is a busy building site at the moment and parts of it has been closed off. But my reason for the stop was the same as the previous year. To check out the ice skaters on the frozen lake. I soon realized that I was on the wrong side of the lake when I spotted the skate sailor on the Sköndal side. And minutes later I noticed a group of ice skaters near the jetty from where I snapped my photos last Winter. Not sure how thick the ice was here yesterday, but as the ice skaters say, thick enough!

Drevvikens sjöisbana

A lone ice skater calling it a day at the frozen Lake Drevviken earlier this week. A fine Winter day, around 5C and a lot of sunshine. The plowed track is 21 kilometers long. I parked the e-bike on the icy path that was closed because of the icy conditions and walked down to the Hökarängsbadet beach for this panorama. Try here for a larger view.

Winter at the lakes

Two recent photos from the Upper Lake at the Rudan nature reserve in Handen. I don't know exactly how thick the ice was, but thick enough for ice skating around the frozen lake as proven here. Parking the bike out on the ice like that is a bit unusual. Looks like the family on the second photo are preparing for both ice skating and Ice fishing, although if he wants to catch any fish he should head over to the Lower lake.

Fredde on Ice

My friend Fredde, the babe-magnet, needed some photos of himself. He has joined one of those online dating sites. So we decided to head down to the Rudan nature reserve. Here he is posing and skating on the frozen upper lake. Later in the day he also did some Nordic skiing, and I took a bunch of photos of that as well. I have now sent him some of the snaps via Dropbox, and I guess all the women at the dating site are busy looking over the photos while considering a date with the babe-magnet!