The group who stayed out another night with the canoes learned how to pan for gold! Their teacher has 37 World Gold panning Championships medals so he knew what he was doing. Just look at the photos. It was like a gold rush out there!

After the floating timber raft dinner we took a quick bus ride to the Bredsjö mansion where we would stay the night, have a workshop the next day and where we would spend the final dinner. We were greeted by one of the most spectacular sunsets I’ve ever seen!

The SOG crew is now back home and yes, we miss you all! And we miss Värmland. Thanks again for the contribution to the Polar Bears, together we collected almost 5 000 Euro. I also want to send you a big THANK YOU from WWF in Sweden!! If you want to give more money for [...]

After half a day of canoeing, lunch and elk tracking, we split up into two groups. One that would continue to paddle canoe further out and sleep outdoors and another, which I was a part of, that would head back and have a dinner on a big raft. After a short pleasant and bicycle ride [...]

Dear Outdoor Ambassadors of Sweden! Thank you very much for your participation at OAS in Värmland. Now I am back in the office and it feels empty that you all have gone back to your home countries… I really hope you had some interesting and useful experiences from your stay. If you have any questions [...]

After we had paddled our canoes to the lunch site and made a fish soup and relaxed a bit Aulis Syväjärvi joined us to teach us about the moose (or elk). How to call it with sounds and how to track it. Aulis Syväjärvi also told us stories of the area to put our presence there [...]

After quite a cold night in the tentipis (-5 Celsius!) we slowly warmed up over breakfast and coffee and headed out by bus to the next activity; canoeing! This day the group would split up into two groups. One would continue to canoe in the evening and spend another night outside while the other group would [...]

The brothers from Gränsfors Bruks Axes had a suprise for us before the wild meat dinner: axe throwing! They were kind enough to give all of us small forest axes to try out during these days but this evening they pulled out a huge double edged axe reminiscent of a viking axe! This, of course, was for [...]

After the 8km long uphill trek we arrived at our new camp site where a wild meat buffet was waiting for us. With good company, roaring fire outdoors and indoors and great food the evening was a success. The rest and food was also welcome after the heavy raft building and the tough trek. I [...]