Skrinnarens guide till Mälaren

The book is written in Swedish.

Lake Mälaren is by far Sweden's most visited lake for long-distance ice skating trips. But even for dedicated skaters, the details of how the lake freezes are relatively unknown.

Author Mårten Ajne has processed more than fifty years of ice and weather data and combined this with the experiences of ice skating clubs. The result is over a hundred different ice-laying areas, each of which is presented in the book.

A great deal of focus is placed on the book's specially made maps that show the freezing stages in numbered and colored zones, tributaries, straits, fairways, rifts, cracks and places for complex water currents.

The reader also receives suggestions for trips with suitable starting points, sights, rest areas and smart walking routes between the bays. Lake Hjälmaren is also covered in the book.

Mårten Ajne has been skating for forty years and in every corner of Lake Mälaren. He has twenty years of experience as an ice reporter and tour guide for the Stockholm Skating Sailing Club. He has previously written the books Stora boken om långfärdsskridsko and Vintervatten.

The Skating Guide to Lake Mälaren is part of a series of three books that describe skating waters around Mälardalen, Stockholm and the archipelagos on the east coast.