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Playing with fire in Iceland

Made a fantastic tour to the hot new lava between Eyjafjallajökull and Myrdalsjökull yesterday with my group. The rivers we had to cross were big but not too big for Mountain Climbing's car and the hike was fabulous, the sky almost clear and a wonderful view most of the time.
We got all the way up to the new lava, saw some magma not that deep in the ground and watched German (or Austrian?) guys playing with the fire. We hiked to the top of the new volcanoes in this area. When walking on those new volcanoes you can feel the heat under your boots. Your feet get really warm! One of us even got a stone in the shoe and there was some steam when she had taken the stone out of the shoe.
This was ADVENTURE!

Big rivers but not too big for the car

We made a fantastic trip to Þórsmörk (Thorsmork) yesterday. It was raining heavily, maybe for the first time this summer, so the rivers were BIG! But not too big for the car. We made it easily to Þórsmörk for a short hike and then back.
On the way back home we went to a restaurant and had delicious fish soup. I couldn't resist having a dessert after that nice meal so I got some Icelandic strawberries with ice cream with my coffee. It was fantastic.

Interview on the hiking tours

This is an interview about the hiking tours taken in early spring or late winter if I remember right: http://www.icelandnewsonline.net/2010/04/29/iceland-news-podcast-episode-3-mountain-climbing-around-reykjavik-with-gu%C3%B0run-helga-sigur%C3%B0ardottir/

Lava warms up your feet

Our new hikes up to the warm lava between the two volcanoes/glaciers on the south coast are popular. It is indeed a fantastic thing to experience to climb up there (around 1.000m) and feel how the new lava warms up your feet through the shoes. :)