One of many river crossings

Planned by Allan Witton. Led by John Willson, Bill Souster, John Green, Ian Orrell and Steve Adams. The illustrated log below contains a full party list.

The route was an 11 day Trek through the wilderness of south-central Iceland, an area chosen for the following reasons.

 (a) It wasn’t too far from Reykjavik so that the coach transfers at the beginning and end of the route were relatively short and inexpensive.

(b) There was a good variety of Icelandic landscape: ice-caps and glaciated valleys around Thórsmörk; hot springs and other volcanic activity in the interior and at Landmannalaugar; waterfalls; a ‘big’ summit to climb (Hekla); and plenty of wilderness walking and river crossings between.

(c)  Because Landmannalaugar is a popular stopping point for coach tours, it was possible for supplies to be taken there to be collect on arrival, and on return from Eldgja.

The planned walking route divided into three main sections.

1.              Thórsmörk to Landmannalaugar 

2.              A loop from Landmannalaugar to Eldgja to visit the Ófærufoss waterfall

3.              A walk out to pick-up point near Burfell, climbing Hekla en route.

Route Outline:  Day 1. Valahnukur  2.  Hattfell  3. Torfakvisl  4.  Reykjadalir  5.  Landmannalaugar  6. Ófærufoss 7. Nordurnamur 8. Ljotipollur and Landmannalaugar  9. Helliskvisl  10. Groenavatn 11. Hekla 12. Burfell

Below is a slide show of a selection of images from Iceland.

All the images in the slide show are taken from the illustrated log below, where their locations are given.