Lillomarka walk 4 April 2007
The first Norwegian walk revisited.
A pussy willow - perhaps one of the worst conceived names.
Flowering yellow catkin of the male pussy willow.
Multi-colour leaf.
Lillomarka forest.
Though not the first deer I have seen in Norway (I have seen reindeer wild at Kaldvåg, and running into gardens in Oslo), these roe deer are the first in the Oslo area that allowed me to get close enough to photograph them.
A great, distinctive pose.
Now that we had been seen, they were not going to hang around waiting for us to take any more. Pity, I was hoping we could get some closeups.
Climbing up the same gully as we had climbed before. The ground was covered in this strange mold sticking to the twigs. Looks like the fake cobwebs from a Halloween party.
Trollvann, still one of the few placed to retain its ice and snow.
Delicate ice sheet formations.
Translucent ice.
Ice blades.
Taking pictures of the ice formations.
Ditto.
Pictures of pictures.
As the level of the water in the lake drops, the ice can no longer support its own weight, and it fractures into these huge slabs.
Playing with the light in the fractures.
The red underlying bark of a birch.
Bubbles trapped in the ice.
Broken ice crystals.
ice crystals.
Fracture patterns in the ice on the lake. And no, it is not fuzzy, that is an optical illusion produced by crystals on the ice.
They look like a disease from Star Trek.
The first real cave I have seen in Norway.
OK, it's quite pathetic and short (the cave, not the person), but Norway really doesn't have many long caves.
The ski slope and holiday resort at Trollvann, with the view over Maridalsvannet into Nordmarka.
An artificial snow mound at the top of the ski slope, produced by spraying water as a fine mist, and allowing it to naturally freeze.
Any caver should recognise this texture. These are scallops, and indicate the flow of a fluid. In this case, that would probably be the wind.
Visible layering of the snow.
A tall glacier rift cave in a large snowbank.
I would have explored further, but without a light, I might have fallen into the river. OK, OK, it's just a tiny pathetic little thing about a foot high.
My, my. That is an impressive one.
The view back down into Oslo, time to go back.
The people of Norway like to live in pretty coloured houses. Some of the smaller residents like to keep their painted houses up in trees, to avoid potential predators like door-to-door salesmen.
A pussy willow - perhaps one of the worst conceived names.
Flowering yellow catkin of the male pussy willow.
Multi-colour leaf.
Lillomarka forest.
Though not the first deer I have seen in Norway (I have seen reindeer wild at Kaldvåg, and running into gardens in Oslo), these roe deer are the first in the Oslo area that allowed me to get close enough to photograph them.
A great, distinctive pose.
Now that we had been seen, they were not going to hang around waiting for us to take any more. Pity, I was hoping we could get some closeups.
Climbing up the same gully as we had climbed before. The ground was covered in this strange mold sticking to the twigs. Looks like the fake cobwebs from a Halloween party.
Trollvann, still one of the few placed to retain its ice and snow.
Delicate ice sheet formations.
Translucent ice.
Ice blades.
Taking pictures of the ice formations.
Ditto.
Pictures of pictures.
As the level of the water in the lake drops, the ice can no longer support its own weight, and it fractures into these huge slabs.
Playing with the light in the fractures.
The red underlying bark of a birch.
Bubbles trapped in the ice.
Broken ice crystals.
ice crystals.
Fracture patterns in the ice on the lake. And no, it is not fuzzy, that is an optical illusion produced by crystals on the ice.
They look like a disease from Star Trek.
The first real cave I have seen in Norway.
OK, it's quite pathetic and short (the cave, not the person), but Norway really doesn't have many long caves.
The ski slope and holiday resort at Trollvann, with the view over Maridalsvannet into Nordmarka.
An artificial snow mound at the top of the ski slope, produced by spraying water as a fine mist, and allowing it to naturally freeze.
Any caver should recognise this texture. These are scallops, and indicate the flow of a fluid. In this case, that would probably be the wind.
Visible layering of the snow.
A tall glacier rift cave in a large snowbank.
I would have explored further, but without a light, I might have fallen into the river. OK, OK, it's just a tiny pathetic little thing about a foot high.
My, my. That is an impressive one.
The view back down into Oslo, time to go back.
The people of Norway like to live in pretty coloured houses. Some of the smaller residents like to keep their painted houses up in trees, to avoid potential predators like door-to-door salesmen.