Category: my travels
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Day 5 – 65 Degrees North, Detifoss, Hverir and Lake Myvatn
We are at the north now. Deep North.It’s considerably colder here. I mean its proper “brace yourselves, winter is comming cold”. We are about 1 deg south of the arctic circle which in 2016 runs 66°33′46.3″ north of the equator. Daytime temp is below 10c. Nightime falls to mere 2C. In August. Some of our…
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Day 4 . Destination north east.
It was a really long day… mostly disappointing due to a bad weather. Imagine winter in Donegal, then multiply by 5. That’s your average Icelandic late August summer day. Oh well… We got up fairly early hoping to complete one of the hiking trails around the glacier, but it was really raining bad… Forecast had…
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Day 3 continued. Crashed plane, green canyon, old farmhouse and another glacier.
First of all thanks to all my followers for actually reading these words. It’s the only thing that motivates me to keep going with the updates. After we were ‘done’ with the glacier (in reality one is simply not “done” with these magnificent wonders of nature ;)) we frove few km east on route 1…
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Day 3. At the glacier and going further east.
Woke up early in the morning. Earlier than we planned. Loud Spanish speaking folk in the tent next to ours made sure nobody overslept… I can’t stress enough how awesome the sight of 62m waterfall is. The power that comes with it is just breathtaking. [wpvideo 2a8Y8ws7] We were very fast to cook breakfast pack…
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First 2 days in Iceland. Reykjavik. Golden circle and moving east.
I finally got some time to write couple of words about our little trip to even further north than what my friend Kieran considers too far north. This free time is mainly due to break in the weather. It’s raining cat and dogs… Irish style. I’m currently in a tent under a waterfall in amazing…
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Everybody knows…
…that there isn’t too many sun days in Dublin in April, so when they do come (more often than not in the middle of the week), one wants to go out and spend that time outdoors. Dalkey is the most obvious choice, and to fully enjoy the sun – we usually go to the Street Fighter Area.…
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We are back home now.
We are all back home now. I’m still jet lagged, hopefully it will be gone soon. The journey back was rather uneventful (other than terrible security experience there – cause fck you, 300 travelers who just traveled for 10h+ – queue here for 1h+ long queue to these 2 out of 10 security points we have…
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Canada 2016 – They’ve done it! Polar Circus conquered!
So it happened! After enormous effort, 2 days of planning and 13 hours of climbing the biggest ice they’ve ever seen, Padriac and Del conquered the notorious Polar Circus (WI5, Grade V, 700m). From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus As soon as they rest,one of these two gentlemen will write a full report. Stay tuned! From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus
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Canada – Day 13 – Haffner Creek
We’ve decided that since we are all tired, and the guys still want to check out Polar Circus (800m, WI5, Grade V) before we go home on Sunday, we’ll take the next few days very easy, hence the choice of Haffner Creek. It is located in Kootenay National Park near Banff. It’s about 45 minutes drive from…
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Canada – Day 11&12 – Super Bock and rest day
Super Bock is another of series of climbs named after beers in Field, British Columbia. It is found on the east end of Mt Stephen and have few options in terms of approach. One of them is to drive to Field, and walk from there for around 3km on rail tracks (east), the other option…