Sunday, September 26, 2021

Swinghill Season's Opening

 

It is snowing in Swinghill, the lift is running, and I opened the season. Cool. 

Snowing:


Lift:


Views on the slope and to the lake:

This article has also been published at TGR. Read the full Planetskier series at planetskier.net, or all blog articles from Blogspot or TGR. Photos, videos, and text (c) 2021 by Jari Arkko.


Saturday, September 25, 2021

First publication in a UK caving magazine!



Jarmo and I managed to get a picture of the Högberget cave in the cover of the Cave Radio and Electronics Group (CREG) journal!

You can read the journal here. You'll need a subscription to read, but it is only 4£ per year. You can also subscribe to the more general Cave and Karst Science journal at the same place.

Read more urban exploration stories from theurbanexplorer.net, and other underground stories from planetcaver.net. Read the full Planetskier series at planetskier.net, or all blog articles from Blogspot or TGR. Photos, videos, and text (c) 2021 by Jari Arkko and Jarmo Ruuth. All rights reserved.

Clutch is fixed, properly!

 

Volvo is now ready to be picked up! The clutch is properly fixed, finally. They had to replace the parts rather than repair them.

Not the only crazy Volvo owner at the office

 


And if you thought I was the only crazy person at the office … pic from after lunch parking.

What a wonderful blue-white moment!

Back to the office!

First day at the office in 18 months. Also booked movie tickets for next month. Enough dangerous living for the rest of the year?

So good to see my friends and colleagues, although only a couple people at the office. And a beautiful day!

New reliability numbers for Volvo

 


.... now I've managed to do 66% of the summer cottage trips with the Volvo. It will just be a small matter of turning those numbers around and I'll have a "two nines" reliability already!


Feeling lucky


For 1000€, the handbrake now works (cable was fine, but the hull around had disappeared) and clutch replaced. Previous fixes were, e.g., welding broken clutch parts. Feeling lucky so I took the car to the cottage, 200 km away. It could be a long tow.