Stockholm Photoblog

Norra Djurgården walk from Ropsten to Universitetet

Norra Djurgården is a large openspace area situated between the two forks of the tbana’s northern red line. I meandered my way through here on a hike the other day.

This factory is just west of the Ropsten station on a road called Gasverksvägen.

Now I’ve entered the nature area, which is bisected by a disused industry track.

I found another one of those all too common doors into the mountain, here

And here is a strange looking water tower, with aerial photo here. I suspect the mountain door leads to the underground infrastructure for this tower, because it’s facing that direction and not too far away.

There were plenty of people out jogging and the weather was nice

There is a lake called Laduviken and a ski jump on the slope next to it

Instead of walking up to the building, I first followed the tow cable to the bottom of the hill

It does not seem to be in use any longer

Sitting in the bottom of the fusebox is a Seagate harddiskar

So I took it home. It’s a 3.2 GB dinosaur, and though it did spin up for a few seconds the circuit board was fried and it wouldn’t work 🙁

Next, I walked on a little path to the lake’s shoreline

And out onto the dock

There were actually two snakes on this dock, and they each slithered away from me as I walked near and then disappeared between the cracks in the wooden planks. Wouldn’t want to go swimming in this water!

This duck swam up to say hello

I dunno what it’s doing with its foot here…

So then I walked up the hill in the direction of the ski ramp, and came across this stunt course

It looks like it was intended for mountain bikes, but it’s old and worn now

Still a cool sight to come across in the woods

So apparently there are two ski ramps

And this one is abandoned, or at least looks that way as its overgrown

Great view

You can see Mr Duckduck in the water below!

Though I suppose this would still work if covered in snow

Walking around the ramp I came to an overgrown staircase. I’m not sure how they expect you to walk up the hill because this is the only staircase I saw and it doesn’t look maintained.

It leads to the bottom of the bigger ramp

Under the overgrown ramp. The thought never occured to me to walk up those stairs and stand on top of it — silly me.

/obligatory self shot

There was actually a swarm of mosquitos under here and they were all flying around the wall where I set my backpack down with the camera on top, so in the course of setting up the four shots I took I was basically just getting eaten alive. I have bumps all over my head now and maybe I should bring a hooded sweatshirt next time to protect myself.

I am heavily skilled in the take-photos-of-myself dept.

Some ugly RV in the parking lot

Then I walked down the hill again

Here’s a tree which is strangely naked on one side

That cylinder in the back is part of the same factory as in the very first picture. I havn’t travelled very far laterally, but still covered a lot of distance as I wandered around.

From the other side of Laduviken the entire ski slope is visible. It pissed me off a bit when I noticed people were on the roof of the building, because I’m sure there’s a terrific view from up there and I would have gone up if I had known it was possible.