Tag Archives: Hiking

Defeated

Posted on September 5, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Like the fellowship of the ring trying to cross the Redhorn Pass, where Saruman sent a snowstorm to throw them back, that’s how we felt today. Our personal Mount Caradras was the Laktatjakka valley, the valley of doom, where a … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Fieldwork, Hiking, Landscape photography, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Scandinavia, Snow, Sweden, Winter | 7 Comments

Berrymania

Posted on September 3, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

Sweden is the land of the berries. That statement inevitably pops up in your head if you roam through the Scandinavian mountains in September. Cloudberries, blueberries, lingonberries, raspberries, stone brambles, bilberries, bunchberries, they got them all, hundreds, or even thousands … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Autumn, Berries, Food, Fruit, Hiking, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Plants, Scandinavia, Traveling | 7 Comments

Autumn is awesome

Posted on September 2, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

At least when the sun is shining… Currently, we are hiding inside for the autumn rains and the poor 6 °C they come with. Yet when the sun is out to lighten up all the colors, the Arctic world seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in Sweden | Tagged Abisko, arctic, Autumn, Colors, Forests, Hiking, Landscape photography, Landscapes, Mountains, Nature, Outdoors, Sweden | Leave a comment

Charging the batteries

Posted on August 29, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

A few more days of charging the batteries here in Belgium before we head up back north to the colds of the Arctic. There seems to be an unfortunate negative correlation between the weather in Belgium and the weather in … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Belgium, Forests, Hiking, Landscape photography, Meerdaalwoud, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Summer, Travel | Leave a comment

Picture this

Posted on August 22, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

The Scandinavian summer… Fascinating as ever… You are invited to browse through the gallery from our first field trip of the summer to Abisko, on the right of this blog (or if all goes well via this link). Admire breathtaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Norway, Sweden | Tagged Hiking, Landscape photography, Landscapes, Mountains, Outdoors, Photography, Scandinavia, Travel | 3 Comments

There is no place like

Posted on August 19, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

…home. The summer is for fieldwork and conferences. For a mountain ecologist based in Belgium, that means a lot of travelling. To the mountains. To other like-minded scientists. All that travelling might very well be the most exciting part of the … Continue reading →