traveling for the weekend only and are headed back soon. The glacier
hike is absolutely unreal, the ice under your feet is a mystic shade
of blue that perpetuates forever underneath you. Walking along ridges
you can see where some of the melt forms rivers and archs. On this day
there was a consistently strong wind that forced us to double back on
our tracks multiple times for fear of being blown into a crevasse. The
only way to tell the deepness of one is by chucking a block of ice in
and listening for the crashing to cease. Near the end we found an
icewall to scale, so with pick axes in hand we climbed (or attempted
to) one at a time. It's probably one of the most exhaustive activities
I've ever done.
Almost all the terrain we drove by today was barren. Not a single tree
or shrub in sight. There were rocks and volcanic ash everywhere and it
really felt like an anolog of mars. Opposite to the mountains is flat
land that extends to the Atlantic, occasionally dusted with some moss.
Iceland truly is unique in terms of landscape.
Suhan (mobile)
crazy person, be careful! and that sounds so fun/cold
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