2012-07-27 59 12

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Location

In the middle of nowhere, off the E18 towards Oslo, 450 meters a from logging road, beyond a swamp.

Participants

Cjk

Plans

I was already driving from Stockholm to Fiskebäckskil so why not take a detour and geohash along the way. If I go north of the largest lake in Sweden, Vänern I could deflower a Virgin Graticule.

Expedition

Packed the car and drove out from Stockholm, turned towards Örebro in Södertälje, and towards Karlstad in Örebro. A lot of vacation traffic with motor homes and caravans. Got some burgers in Karlstad.

Continued on the E18 towards Oslo and got off the "highway" at the right spot, onto a narrow road, then a gravel road and then a logging road. Stopped the car at the mininum distance to the hash. I jumped over a ditch and started making my way through what turned out to be a swamp. I turned back after like 7 m and tried to jump over the ditch to find a dry route around the swamp, but the rotten logs covered in moss gaveme no footing at all and I landed in the ditch with water up to my calves.

Fuck it, already wet, lets cross this swamp. Hiked up a hill along a logging road and ate some blueberries to get my mind off my soaking Converse. Crossed a few clearings that I had seen on google maps and found the hash which was locaded in a clearing on the side of asmall hill. Snapped some picks and painted the moss.

Started heading back to the car and realized just how wet this "summer" has been in sweden when the moss gave way and I started sliding down the hill.

Ate some common wood-sorrel, or 'harsyra', on the way back.

Found the dry route I should have taken and got backto my car. Removed shoes and socks and donned pink flip-flops. Headed back to the E45 and drove the rest of the way towards Fiskebäckskil. By the last turn off point a wanker in a SUV headed straight for me in my lane on the wrong side of an aboutment. Total tosser.

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