Easter lunch
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Per has a lot of stuff in his big backpack, and prepared a mini barbecue lunch with hot dogs from the local butcher
Betraktninger om likt og ulikt men mest om langrenn, Oslomarka og friluftsliv. Og litt skole og utdanning,
Per has a lot of stuff in his big backpack, and prepared a mini barbecue lunch with hot dogs from the local butcher
Dec 28, 2006
This was a special day for several reasons: First of all, it was my birthday and I was going to spend it together with two good friends at a place I love - in the surroundings of the lake Katnosa in Nordmarka.
Secondly, we were going for some fishing and needed to make sure the ice was safe enough to walk on. It was, +10cm fresh ice is more than enough.
What made this day so special however, was the sad fact that one of Norway's most known former XC-athlets, Ivar Formo, drowned in a lake a couple of kilometers south of us the evening the day before. He was skating Nordmarka from north to south as many do at this time of the year, when the snow hasn't covered all lakes yet. Ivar had max bad luck, and drowned in Store Sandungen 5 km south of us.
It was all over the news this morning, and our families were not exactly excited over the fact that we were going into this same area - ON the ice. Of course we tok all possible pre-cautions and carried with us necessary safety equipment, which we didn't have to use.