2024 NH Spring/SH Fall Photo Thread

I thought I was tripping, never seen this phenomenon before. The ground just shone a really bright gold. even moreso than it looks in the picture. Upon closer inspection it was just tiny (reproductive?) strands from the moss that managed to reflect the light at a perfect angle.





Spent the weekend (26th-28th of April) in Umeå. Fields up here had turned into lakes.


On May 1st we finally had some warm weather (at least in Sollefteå) with 18-19'C temps after the previous week which had had highs consistently 5-7'C below average. Since it was a red day I spent the entire day just walking around and exploring the little town, was out from 11 to 18. I spontaneously got the idea to summit the circa 400 m tall mountain and ski resort.


It was a lot sweatier and physically demanding than I expected.


Even on top of the snow and at elevation it was 16'C, and the sun reflecting off the white snow was really really hot.


I tried to dream away to the Scandese mountains, and to a certain degree it did feel like I was summiting a proper snow tipped mountain. Although the views were still nice, they weren't really the same however.


Views from the top:



Mountains always look so pathetically small on images compared to in real life. I guess in English most people would rather use the word hill to describe this one.


In the town center they had this random steep sand/silt hill. This type of formation is called nipa in Swedish apparently.





Found a proper forest path.


Felt odd to find snow (that wasn't man-made unlike at the ski slope) considering the warm weather.


Nice tree house.



Then on May 3rd I headed back. It got to 23'C that day. Trees were right on the cusp of leafing out.



Back in Umeå there was no sign of leaves though, and the horrible weather we've had ever since I got back home has meant there hasn't been any progress whatsoever really. 5th of May: still snow in the city forest trail.


The top of our city's ski slope. The one in Sollefteå isn't massive but it makes our little hill look laughable.


Some buds on this tree surrounded by 1,5 m tall snow piles.


Well, our forecast has finally turned above average so hopefully the trees will green up rapidly during next week.


Although if SMHI is right we might just get some tiny leaves on a minority of the trees...