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Cake number 34.
It happens that beginning of September marks my birthday. As a kid I wasn’t particularly looking forward to that day as it coincided with end of the summer and start of school. Obviously two most terrible things for most boys. Now when I’m older and shifted my interest to more outdoorsy activities (from being a…
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The Northern Lights
I guess everyone knows what they are; not everybody seen them live. The ones who have, know that they look nothing like they’d imagine… Hunting for them in the summer is like going rock climbing in the spring – technically possible, sometimes you’ll get conditions and couple of climbs in, but most of the time it will be just a…
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Days 6 (Hverfjall, Vindbelgiarfjall), 7 (Hraunfossar / Barnafoss) & going home.
I didn’t have time in the last 2 days to update, as we were doing a lot of driving. We knew that last two days will be tough. It’s a long distance from the north back to Reykjavik. We also wanted stop and places and explore as well as stay up late one night and…
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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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Fair Head and other Northern Adventures.
It finally happened. I managed to convince people (well, it took zero convincing this time, the team was more motivated than I) and climb in Fair Head. It was my (and Tereza’s) first ever trip there – while for Jirka it was a return after 8 years of absence. So there we were, yet again…
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Time is running out.
Jirka got a very good job offer back home in Czech, so we got only have 3 weeks before he’s moving out of the country again. I’m very happy for him, but also sad to lose yet another climbing partner. With Conor moved to the UK, Andrew moved to the Middle East, Derek&Padraig move to no-climbing-land…