O-Ringen Magazine, nr 1 2024
The worlds biggest orienteering adventure. Oskarshamn, Smålandskusten, July 21st to 27 th 2024.
The worlds biggest orienteering adventure. Oskarshamn, Smålandskusten, July 21st to 27 th 2024.
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Interest in the forest<br />
across generations<br />
Grandfather Lars, son Magnus and<br />
grandson Vilgot share an interest<br />
in the forest. Since 1988, Lars has<br />
managed a family estate in Yttre<br />
Åby in Fliseryd, where he is the<br />
fifth generation. Since he bought<br />
the estate from his parents, he has<br />
been involved in Södra forest-owner<br />
association in various ways, including<br />
being a trustee of the Mönsterås<br />
foresty area for over 30 years.<br />
Grandfather Lars, son Magnus and grandson Vilgot share an interest in the forest. Photo: Private.<br />
Välkommen till<br />
familjeskogsbruken<br />
I generationer har vi vårdat och aktivt skött våra<br />
skogar. Vi är fler än 50 000 familjeskogsbrukare<br />
i Södra som tror på att kombinera kärleken till<br />
skogen med en hälsosam livsstil. Vi är därför<br />
stolta sponsorer till Södraetappen på O-<strong>Ringen</strong>.<br />
Välkommen till våra skogar.<br />
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For Lars, working in the forest and<br />
being involved in Södra has offered<br />
a necessary break from ordinary<br />
working life, which was often<br />
intense. He says that “forest bathing” as<br />
it’s now widely called is something that he<br />
has done for years without realising it. As a<br />
pensioner he now spends a lot of his time<br />
working in the forest and hunting.<br />
He shares his interest in the forest with his<br />
two children. His son Magnus, who works<br />
in energy provision at Södra’s factory in<br />
Mönsterås, has part-owned the property in<br />
Fliseryd for some years now, along with his<br />
sister.<br />
Lars admits that during his working years<br />
he didn’t have as much time as he would like<br />
to be there for his children. His wife, Agneta,<br />
had to take that responsibility. As a pensioner,<br />
though, he has been able to be there<br />
for his four grandchildren in a completely<br />
different way. Spending time in the forest is<br />
a natural part of their connection. Two of<br />
the grandchildren are now qualified to use<br />
chainsaws. The youngest, Vilgot, still isn’t<br />
old enough for that but he is good at driving<br />
tractors and logging vehicles in the forest.<br />
The Tyrberg family’s connection to the<br />
forest happens on several levels. Magnus<br />
joined in at the forest as a teenager and<br />
helped with planting among other things.<br />
He started to work at Södra in 2017 and has<br />
passed on his interest in the forest to his<br />
youngest son Vilgot.<br />
And what about orienteering? Magnus<br />
has always been fascinated by maps. Unfortunately<br />
he didn’t do much orienteering<br />
as a youngster but when he did he always<br />
enjoyed it.<br />
When his sons were around ten, he<br />
thought it would be fun for them to try orienteering.<br />
Vilgot went with a friend to some<br />
orienteering training and his older brother<br />
Alfred went along too. The parents joined<br />
SOK Viljan as leaders, too, and started orienteering<br />
themselves.<br />
Talent for the sport<br />
Vilgot has showed a talent for orienteering<br />
and has been successful since he started.<br />
He was third at the Pölder Cup (Småland’s<br />
youth cup) when he was twelve, winning<br />
some of the individual races. Then he had<br />
to take a break for a couple of years due to<br />
injury, but in 2023 he was no longer injured<br />
and could run again as normal. He’ll be<br />
sixteen this year and is still as keen as ever.<br />
Vilgot would love to run O-<strong>Ringen</strong> this<br />
summer but since he knows the terrain<br />
round Oskarshamn too well and even lives<br />
next to the Stage 4 terrain, he will be helping<br />
out instead. The family have been to three<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong>s until now: Uppsala, Kolmården<br />
and Åre. This year they’re helping at the<br />
Småland Coast but next year they will be<br />
running again in Jönköping, which they are<br />
looking forward to.<br />
Vilgot in full flow. Photo: Private.<br />
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