Skògar to Landmannalaugar
Snow and steam
Thursday afternoon, I hitch-hiked to Skógar, about 150 km South East from Reykjavik. Five friendly Icelandic drivers took me on the way, including a grand mother, a mother of two young kids, a farmer, and two 17 years old kids. Summer holiday is starting in Iceland, and a lot of them were driving to their summer house.
The weather was pretty bad on the first day, hiking from Skògar to Þórsmörk. It was a good test for my tent, since it was the first time I used it under the rain. It kept me dry until the next morning, and I had plenty of space to cook and pack my bag under it.
The next few days I was lucky as the weather was just perfect. The massive glaciers and the colourful, snowy and steamy mountains were amazingly beautiful. I met quite a lot of people on the trail — the warden in one of the huts told me there are 150 everyday, up to 200 — but since I was going in the other direction than most of them, it wasn't really a problem.
On Sunday evening, I reached Landmannalaugar, had a bath in the hot springs, and went a little further West to camp near a little river, in a lava bed. On Monday, I walked a few kilometers more and started hitch-hiking in the afternoon, back to Reykjavik, after about 100 km hiking.