It’s getting warmer, the asphalt is dry and the gravel from last winter has been swept away. Sweden is awakening to a new cycle spring.

Part of the problem - or the solution...

Kristian Jager Nykrog became a popular guy in his group during the recent Outdoor Academy of Sweden in Vålådalen. Why? He knew how to avoid getting wet feet and how to cope with with it if the damage is done.

It’s oh so nice to dig a snow cave in soft snow. But the there’s a price to pay for that: a wet nights sleep. Outdoor in Sweden invites you for a crash course in how not to build a “snöka”.

Gunnika Isaksson-Lutteman was longing to spend more time outdoors. But she simply never got around to do it. Then, last year, she decided to have an adventure, or 52 to be more precise.

Swedish Lapland? No, Söderbysjön, 2 km’s outside Stockholm City.

Wintertime and holiday doesn’t have to mean the Alps or the Swedish mountains. For foreign visitors and locals with small reserves there’s plenty of adventures around Stockholm.

A midwinter’s dream.

One and half month to go to. Vasaloppet, the oldest, the longest and the biggest cross country ski race in the world, is attracting a big crowd – before the race even has begun. The woods outside Mora in Dalarna is beginning to look like La Rambla of cross-country skiing.

Swedes take their sauna seriously. And a lot of us drive snowmobiles. When journalist and editor Henrik Harr made a trip through the Swedish mountains to find out the bare truth about faraway saunas he made a point of combining the two.

Happy frog men sinking into it.

There’s been a sudden rush of divers to the island of Lidingö, just outside of Stockholm. The reason is M/S Benli, an old Danish trawler, that was sunk in the Bay of Värtan in October this year.

The late winter in Sweden has seen skaters and skiers scrambling for ice and snow. Last weekend Oskar Karlin and his two friends got a message from Kiruna in Laponia: it’s getting colder, the lakes are about to freeze – and there is no snow yet. The race was on.

Just because the race is off doesn’t mean you can’t participate. This year’s Orbea Mountain Triathlon was called off because a lack of competitors. But I decided I wanted to race anyway.