TREELINE TALES
THE NORDIC COUNTRIES OUTDOOR BLOG
Getting started = One Pack To Go
Taiga talk – our blog
Find the Scandinavian taiga and treeline, mosquitoes, reindeer and snow. Where the big sky is a landscape and nature writes a book.
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Why we love a landscape is a brain thing
Nature is good for people, to state the obvious. But did you ever wonder why a place, a landscape affects or even overwhelms you, to stay with you forever? Why…
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Running on wheels – Osprey Ozone 42 review
Airportproof and outdoor resistant. Plane, train, bus, wilderness. On my way to the world I love most, to those lonestanding tall trees, the landscapes of the taiga, and the stones…
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Arctic frame – Svalbard polar bears through a lens
A photographer’s dream called Svalbard. Located between Norway and the North Pole and dominated by ice, wind, and sea. It is the habitat of the polar bear and home to…
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Portage Glacier, an Alaskan journey in time
Portage Glacier across the two miles of lake. Surrounded by towering mountains that plunge straight into the water. Nature’s splendour right in front of me. Old friends we are, meeting…
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The Hidden Life of Trees- A reality fairy tale
The Hidden Life of Trees. A book title that suggests secrets and fairy tales. Both are here to discover, following the footsteps of the author and forester Peter Wohlleben, and…
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Flying high || Osprey Sirrus 24 Review
Destination Gränslandet, central Scandinavia, the borderlands between Sweden and Norway. With a new daypack, the Osprey Sirrus 24. Like a companion, only met recently and invited to come along, a…
It is the scent of a dense forest on a rainy day, the silence of a minus 25 degrees winter’s night, the humming sound of a mosquito-filled summer’s breeze. It is the inviting presence of mountains, valleys, rivers, and streams, the sudden weather changes, the magic of untouched nature reigned by its own rules only. It is all out there, to experience and to enjoy, bringing exciting adventures and contemplative moods.
The Nordic Countries Outdoor Blog – Treeline Tales is the pursuit of putting it down in words, combining an impressionistic view of Nordic outdoor life with particular details and facts. The starting point is a passion for experiencing the nature and wilderness areas in the northern part of Europe.
What wise people said
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says: “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.”
Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.