Traversing the 40+ mile long Laugavegur and Fimmvorduhals Trail through the land of ice and fire: Iceland.
The bitter sub-arctic winds came howling through the barren night, the gusts chilling anything not hunkered down, pulling and tugging as it had for ages at the indifferent glint of black lava glass chunks scattered across the rocky field. Our tent constantly flapped in the stiff breeze so loudly that it would have been nearly […]
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With over 80 hikers staying the night at Emstrur hut, we decided that even with staying up late watching the aurora that it would be smart to get moving early to avoid the crowds. Shannon and I dined on an early morning breakfast with a few early riser hikers in the sunny hiker tent where
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Woke up at 9:30am and had a very lazy morning reading books on my iPhone’s Libby app. Charged up at the hiker hut, had oatmeal-crowberry-coconut-chia-almond-flax-peanut butter mix with sausage and maté tea. Stuff was finally drying out. Didn’t leave hut until 12 lol and hiked slowly out of husadalur volcano huts. Relaxing hike through forest
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Bright and early we rose, ditching our non-hiking bags in the storage closet of the Rey Apartments for the next five days. The kind Mathias had said that we could leave our bags for free there and take the closet key with us (but don’t lose it on a glacier or in a volcano!). I
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