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Out of my comfort zone

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They all say that sometime you have to go outside your comfort zone. Well, I tried it on Saturday. Båstad Hiking Weekend is an annual event, which we tried out last year. They offer around 15 hiking tours with different themes. This year we choose an adventure theme; In the Foot Steps of the 'Snapphanar'. The following from Wikipedia on what a 'snapphane' is. "A snapphane was a member of a 17th-century pro-Danish guerrilla organisation that fought against the Swedes in the Second Northern and Scanian Wars, primarily in the former eastern Danish provinces which in the course of these wars became southern Sweden. Many pro-Danish guerrilla fighters referred to themselves as friskydter, i.e. volunteer militiamen. During the Scanian War, many Scanians who lived in the western part of Scania could quite easily join the regular Danish army, after the 1676 Danish re-conquest of the province. But in the North (closer to Sweden), this was more difficult. Instead, this