| News and updates |
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| 31/8 2010 |
| Added Vistas 2010 report to Tours section, updated the references, and fixed a spelling error. |
| 23/8 2010 |
| Crap, it happened again. Compensating. |
| 17/8 2010 |
| Apparently, the counter at the bottom of the start page was reset sometime during the summer, and then started ticking away happily again as if nothing had happened. Fortunately, the counter script stores data in two separate places, and I was able to use the secondary file to calculate the actual number of hits, and then overwrite the erroneous value. Hopefully it will work as expected now. |
| 9/8 2010 |
| I've been back in civilization for a few days, and have now managed to add some more entries as well as photos to the facilities database. The tale of Unna Allakas will have to wait a bit longer, though, as I still have that Vistas report to complete. |
| 20/6 2010 |
| Put in some info on the new management in Kvikkjokk. And, with that, I leave for Unna Allakas, where I'll be from midsummer to the start of August. |
| 6/6 2010 |
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I just discovered that I had forgotten to link one image in the report I added yesterday,
which is fixed now. Oh, and happy Sweden Day, I suppose. |
| 5/6 2010 |
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Added the Vistas day tours to Tours section – this time I decided to do things the other way around,
seeing as how this report contains the really excellent stuff, if I may say so myself.
The main report will come later, which in this case means "in autumn". I've also updated the info page of Stensdalen with the latest news about the coming summer season. |
| 7/5 2010 |
| Another quick update of another devastating fire: the larger Stensdalen cottage burnt down yesterday, decimating the number of beds on the site to 12, which will be accessible during the coming summer. Since the destroyed building also contained the shop, it is doubtful whether provisions will be available, but the sauna should not be affected. STF's ambition is to build a new cottage, but nothing further is known at this point. |
| 6/5 2010 |
| Home again! Since I'll be leaving for a five-week stay in Unna Allakas shortly before midsummer, I don't know how much of my recent sojourn I'll have time to work through before autumn, but for now I've added a winter picture of Vassakåtan, updated the facility database with some new info, and amended the orthography in a number of places seeing as how there is a new BD6 map – and it is with some pleasure I note that my complaint about "Nijbáš" (now properly Niibbáš) was apparently heeded... |
| 31/3 2010 |
| ...and I'm off to Vistas! Here's hoping for good weather and similarly good snow conditions. I'll be back sometime in early May. |
| 17/3 2010 |
| Just a quick update: to my great regret, the Pieggaluoppal shelter has burnt down. |
| 24/1 2010 |
| Added Vålådalen 2009/2010 report to Tours section, updated the facilities database with new photos and references, and made some other tweaks. |
| 21/11 2009 |
| Now the Kutjaure day tours are online as well. Some great stuff there. |
| 12/11 2009 |
| Added Kutjaure 2009 report to Tours section, amended the facilities database and tweaked a wee bit elsewhere. |
| 4/10 2009 |
| Added Sulitelma-Padjelanta 2009 report to Tours section, exchanged some images in the Areas and trails section, refined a couple of trail parts on the Map, and inserted new references under Facilities. Phew! |
| 20/9 2009 |
| Made some small changes at places, among which is the addition of searchable alternative facility names (e.g. "Konsul Perssons stuga"). |
| 11/9 2009 |
| I'm back from the combined trek/wardenship, and I look back rather fondly upon it all. I've just started looking at the resulting photos, and for starters I have updated the facilities database with some new pictures, and also added a couple of new entries. I've also made a few changes due to new information acquired "in the field", such as the newly installed assistance phones in Aktse and Kutjaure. More to come later on. |
| 3/8 2009 |
| Took care of some small errors, updates and suchlike here and there. I'll also take this opportunity to mention that come Friday (7/8) I'm off to Sulitjelma for a week of hiking intended to land me in Kutjaure, where I will then go on to do the warden thing for another three weeks. Return is slated for mid-September. |
| 2/7 2009 |
| I suddenly realized that I had neglected to insert references to the Easter tour in the facilities database, so that has been taken care of now. |
| 21/6 2009 |
| Made a couple of minor updates. |
| 14/6 2009 |
| There, with the addition of the March day tours out of Aktse the past winter is finally completed, and other parts of the site have been updated accordingly. |
| 7/6 2009 |
| Of late I've been busy with a complete hardware upgrade, the whole process of which has consumed a lot of time, but the result is much to my liking. A direct consequence for this site (apart from update delays...) is that with a considerable increase in processing power at my disposal there should be noticeable improvements in things like panorama quality – something which can be checked straight away, as I have just published the Aktse day tours from February (and the March ones – which include the two high points at the end – are not too far behind). |
| 23/5 2009 |
| Added Aktse 2009 report (sans day tours) to Tours section, updated the facility references and added thumbnails for the Bietsávrre and Skierffe POIs on the map. |
| 26/4 2009 |
| Added Storulvån-Vålådalen 2009 report to Tours section and made an adjustment or two. |
| 19/4 2009 |
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I spent the Easter holiday going between cottages in the Republic's fjelds,
in rather a roundabout manner so as to see something other than the usual bits –
and a great tour it turned out to be. Now, I have decided that I will produce the report for this tour
(which spanned no more than four days) before putting my mind to that of Aktse,
which should not take too much time. Meanwhile, I have updated the facilities database with a picture of Ljungan and some additional info, and made some other minor albeit site-wide changes. |
| 4/4 2009 |
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So, I'm home again. This period was a calm one – much calmer than expected, actually.
For example, the first overnight guests came on day ten... The weather at the start was cold but fair,
and I logged several great musts tour-wise, but then things took a turn for the worse;
not bad as in hard, but as in boring. Well, right at the end came a sudden but lasting outbreak of great weather,
and a couple of long tours saved the day, as it were – and the visitors had started finding their way out as well.
I elected to travel back to civilization under my own power, skiing up to Saltoluokta for a terrific finale. Now, the report covering these events will likely take more time than usual to surface, due to this here pesky thing called "other priorities", but it'll come. For a start I have added a number of wintery images to the facilities database, and carried out some expansions/amendments in the same. |
| 15/2 2009 |
| I'm about to leave for this winter's warden assignment, which takes place in Aktse. I won't be gone for the whole season this time, but there will be no activity site- or mailwise until April. |
| 30/1 2009 |
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Big update today! When I first started making facility entries, my plan was to include only those I had visited, but as the project progressed (and grew) I decided to bring in a number of additional places as well, so as to make for example Padjelantaleden complete. I did, however, still not heed unvisited shelters and the like, or facilities in regions of lesser frequentation, but with the advent of the map feature I have come to reconsider this position. The reason is simple: with a good many trails in display – Kungsleden in particular – a missing location seems to be just that – missing. No less than 32 new facilities have therefore been entered, and two more "converted" from map POIs, concentrating upon those situated along the trails – and, again, along Kungsleden in particular. Since I have visited none of these places (save for Kaitumkåtan) the information contained in the entries in of a general nature, originating as it does from what I can find out online and from maps, and for the same reason there are no pictures (should anyone want to provide some missing piece of the puzzle, I'd be much obliged). This has also necessitated the addition of a new area: Arjeplogsfjällen. Its description is rather brief for such a large area, and again the cause is a lack of first-hand information. However, the addition of Arjeplogsfjällen has in turn necessitated a reworking of the Kvikkjokksfjällen area, both on the map, in the text and in the facilities database, due to a strict adherence to the municipal border of Arjeplog which was not meaningful before. Finally, some uncaught errors in the facility database have been corrected, and a number of smaller adjustments have been carried out in various other places as well. |
| 12/1 2009 |
| Fixed a couple of erroneous image references in a couple of the reports. |
| 1/1 2009 |
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Updated the report renderer to retrieve and define the sizes of the thumbnail images,
thereby fixing the dimensions of the stage pages before the images load,
at the expense of an HTML overhead of 4-5%. Tech-speak aside: Happy New Year! As evidenced I am not fjeldside this time around, but I had a nice and quiet (well, had it not been for all the fireworks) time by a fire by the lake instead. Looking ahead, I will participate in a large warden meeting in Vålådalen later in January, and then I'm off for another wardenship in Aktse on the border of Sarek between the times 20/2 and 27/3. |
| 21/12 2008 |
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Corrected a couple of spelling errors. Oh, and Happy Yule, by the way! |
| 16/12 2008 |
| Fixed some minor issues. |
| 3/12 2008 |
| STF has launched a new version of its website (the workings of which are so-so at the moment), which broke all the external links in the facilities database. Unless they change something more, I should now be on top of it again. |
| 2/12 2008 |
| Made a couple of small fixes. |
| 9/11 2008 |
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A whole new section has been added, and it is one I have long felt was missing: an interactive map.
It is linked to the facilities database, the entries of which show up as map markers,
and it also includes the areas and trails discussed in the section of the same name,
plus a number of other trails. There is also a selection of other points of interest here and there,
and the coordinates field in the facility entries now constitutes a direct map link.
Furthermore, the tours have been integrated with the map, in two directions:
the tour index now includes "show on map" links which activate the tour plotting function on the map,
and the stage headers in the tour reports include links to map points along that stage's route.
The whole shebang has been widely tested on a number of browsers (thanks to Form0 and Emma),
and any difference in performance is due to the speed of the underlying JavaScript engine since the application is very script-heavy. In addition, the facilities database has also been integrated with the tours at long last, so that whenever a facility is mentioned for the first time it now forms a link to the corresponding entry page, whereas before it was just boldfaced like any other name. Some minor fixes in various spots on the site have been applied as well, out of sheer momentum. |
| 29/10 2008 |
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Today has seen a cumulative update in quite a few places: 1. Added Mårma to Areas and trails section, which has been partially reworked 2. Added info on the state of Kungsleden north of Jäkkvik in the same section 3. Added Mikka to facilities database, with details on its state 4. Updated the status of the Padjelanta cottages and adjusted some descriptions under Facilities 5. Corrected an erroneous stage map |
| 6/10 2008 |
| Added Mårma 2008 report to Tours section and changed the facilities db accordingly. Great, great tour. |
| 14/9 2008 |
| Added Vålåvalen 2008: Day Tours report to Tours section, made some additions to the parent report, and updated facilities references. I've also amended a few image captions elsewhere in accordance with the latest maps. |
| 10/9 2008 |
| Made a few amendments in the facilities database. |
| 6/9 2008 |
| I recently got home from a splendid tour through the Mårma region, with additions, but the account of this will have to wait some time yet as I will concentrate on the Vålåvalen day tours first. Before that, however, I have done some work in the facilities database, making some changes to a few of the entries, putting up some more photos, and adding the Mårma cabin. There will also be some changes to the text in several places on the site in the near future, due to recent developments and other information that has come to my attention, but I am awaiting final confirmation on some points. |
| 17/8 2008 |
| Added Vålåvalen 2008 report to Tours section and made some other minor changes in other places. Day tours will surface at a later date as usual, and I dare say that the best is yet to come, photography-wise... |
| 8/8 2008 |
| My wardenship in Vålåvalen is now over, and sorting-through of photos is in progress. In the meantime I have added some new pictures to the facilities database and also amended some distances and notes therein. |
| 10/7 2008 |
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Added Bunnerfjällen 2008 report to Tours section and brought the facilities database up to date. This is the last update for a while, for tomorrow I leave for another warden assignment in Vålåvalen. Do come visit! |
| 28/6 2008 |
| Squashed a bug which caused a 404 on external requests to internal pages. |
| 25/6 2008 |
| Added Nallo 2008: Day Tours (April) report to Tours section and made some small adjustments to the main report. Facility references have also been updated. |
| 18/6 1984 |
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What, it's 2008 and not 1984? You could have fooled me. "Lex Orwell" is a reality, and this will be remembered as the Day of Shame. The fjelds, however, have no part in all this – while they by their very nature may not be eternal, they will outlive all human folly and do, in the meantime, offer sanctuary for souls distraught with current affairs. Just don't make any suspicious remarks using communications devices in or near Sweden... |
| 14/6 2008 |
| Added Nallo 2008: Day Tours (March) report to Tours section and updated the references in the facilities database. |
| 7/6 2008 |
| Uploaded the Nallo 2008 crosswords and updated the references in the facilities database. |
| 4/6 2008 |
| Added Nallo 2008 report to Tours section. The various longer day tours are not yet online, but there should be more than enough pictures from the area to satisfy the cravings of any and all interested parties. Stay tuned! |
| 18/5 2008 |
| Corrected a few spelling errors. |
| 16/5 2008 |
| Adjusted some image captions here and there following a map related realization. |
| 9/5 2008 |
| Added Nikkaluokta, Lisa's cabin and Vassakåtan to facilities database, and adopted the term "cabin" for the middle one throughout the site. |
| 7/5 2008 |
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So, once again civilization surrounds me, after two months in the winter paradise that is Nallo.
Short summary: good weather, plenty of guests and lots of skiing. A full report should surface within a few weeks, as usual. In the meantime, I note that the site was temporarily down a few weeks ago due to a server move, and when it was restored the counter had stopped at 4021. The technical reason for this was that as a result of the move file permissions were reset, which meant that the counter script no longer could write to the log file. Luckily (or rather, prudently), the code was designed with this eventuality in mind, so the overall functionality of the site was not affected. The issue has now been corrected. |
| 3/3 2008 |
| Just writing to say that I leave for this winter's wardenship in Nallo now, so no new updates until May at the earliest. And should anyone want to get a hold of me before then – come visit! |
| 1/3 2008 |
| Some minor fixes in various places. |
| 10/2 2008 |
| Orthography update in Vindelfjällen 2006 report. |
| 9/2 2008 |
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Orthography update and other minor fixes in the following tour reports: Vålådalen 2004 Oviksfjällen 2005 Vålådalen 2005/2006 |
| 9/2 2008 |
| Upon getting out of bed this morning it suddenly struck me that there is a bug in the report renderer – or, more to the point, the new version is incompatible with the old data file format in one particular aspect, which caused a few paragraphs that were supposed to be presented in a smaller size to come out as positively huge instead. Fixed now. |
| 7/2 2008 |
| Added the Peak to Peak banner to bottom of front page. |
| 6/2 2008 |
| The 6th of February happens to be the National Day of the Sámi, and even if it is pure coincidence it seems fitting to roll out the new and shiny version of this site today. There have been some extensive changes: the old collection of tour reports, which previously was the site, has been relegated to a subsection of what is now a general information place about the Swedish fjelds. The main feature is a searchable database of tourist facilities, ranging from simple huts in the middle of nowhere to hotel-like locations reachable by car. It is my hope that this will all turn out to be useful in some way or another, to some people, and not only a result of any "desire for expression" on my part – but I have certainly enjoyed producing it in any case. Please holler if there's anything that you find specifically noteworthy, for whatever reason. |
| 30/1 2008 |
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After quite a lot of tweaking, the site should now be as compatible as possible across several platforms and browsers.
It has been tested using Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Opera and Konqueror on several different Windows and Linux setups,
for the latter of which I am much obliged to jaGni and ghor,
and should anyone get it into their head to use Lynx, ELinks or similar those also yield acceptable results. Moving on to proofreading and last-minute adjustments of contents. |
| 28/1 2008 |
| "Beta testing" of the new, much extended site started! |
| 13/1 2008 |
| Added Vålådalen 2007/2008 report to Tours section. This was the second time I have been in the area for New Year, and I'm sure I will not tire of it any time soon. |
| 29/11 2007 |
| Clarified a wording in the Såmmarlappa 2007 report in the Tours section. |
| 16/11 2007 |
| Added Såmmarlappa 2007: Day Tours report to Tours section, making the Såmmarlappa sojourn complete. |
| 9/11 2007 |
| Added Såmmarlappa 2007 report to Tours section. My first warden assignment, this was a terrific way to spend the early autumn. |
| 13/10 2007 |
| Added Sarek 2007 report to Tours section. Lots of rain, but also a fair bit of sunny weather and grand views. Unfortunately I did not quite see eye to eye with the new camera, but digital enhancements have much improved the results. |
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