Þórsmörk is a beautiful green area surrounded by three glaciers, Tindfjallajökull, Eyafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull. Having said that, most of the green in this post is moss - trees and flowers coming in the next post. The photos here were taken in 2006 and record a day spent placing waymarking posts along a trail from the glacial outwash rivers of Krossa to a very pretty peak called Hátindar.
First job - prepare the posts, which we will have to carry up the hill along with our hammers.
Above is the view over Krossa from the Langidalur hut. Our job is to mark out the trail to that pointy little summit (arrowed).
But first, the rivers. Back then there was a footbridge over some of them, but wading was still required for much of the way.
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| Landfall on the other side |
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| Then the long walk up, carrying the posts. |
The consolation is, the load gets lighter the higher we go because we are leaving posts behind as we go. The temptation to be avoided is, to hammer in too many posts at the beginning to get them off our backs.
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| A look back over Krossa to the Langidalur hut |
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| Not dead - just resting |
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| A view from the summit |
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| At the summit, looking across to the edge of Eyafjallajökull |
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| Encounters with foxes on the way down |
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| Nearly down - now only the wading to do |
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