Traveling in Iceland

[soenke]

mosses, in all colours ( sorry, the colours don´t come up right, just lousy dia scans )

small road in the Fjallabak

in rural areas common, abandoned farms and fisherboats sitting on land...

this is true...

 

[NocalFJ60]

Next time I go back to Iceland I would like to go in the summer and drive the circle around the whole island. It is truly a one of kind place to see some beautiful untouched nature.

 

[alkarich]

Great thread with some amazing photos! The night run photo with the rigs in the valley was great!

 

[Talos]

Though I´d spam a few pics in here as well

Krakatindur, and my old hilux.

that´s actually marked as a road on the map

driving ontop of Langjökull in my cruiser

ontop of Skjaldbreiður.

wish I had more pics.

 

[soenke]

...wish I had more pics.

so do I

 

[yann_61]

Some pictures from this summer, just the most wonderful trip so far

Icelanders are fantastic

 

[nobrks]

contrast

small road in the Fjallabak, better contast

 

[soenke]

Nobrks,
how is your build coming along ...? haven´t heard anything for quite some time....

waiting for news and pics...

 

[lulo]

Nice thread...

Great Pics of Iceland...

 

[nobrks]

Nobrks,
how is your build coming along ...? haven´t heard anything for quite some time....

waiting for news and pics...

Build up is in slow progress, here are two pics from the West-Fjords;

In May:

Old road in Augus:
(phone photo)

 

[nobrks]

Volcano eruption

Now there is volcano eruption going on Fimmvörðuháls, between two glaciers, it has been goging strong for a few days and a new mountain is raising. It could trigger a much biller eruption in Katla.
video:
Vísir - Fréttir - Innlent (push play buttom)

"borrowed" photos:
Vísir - Fréttir - Innlent

Vísir - Fréttir - Innlent

Eldgosið Ã* Eyjafjallajökli on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

live cameras @ GMT 0:
NEW!! camera on Fimmvörðuháls:
Eyjafjallajökull frá Hvolsvelli

from Þórólfsfell mountain:
Eyjafjallajökull frá Þórólfsfelli

200 meters high lava-"fall" See the human in right corner:

snowmobile in left corner

 

[Wayneraintree]

Man that is just plain fantastic!

HZJ73 ready to climb the volcano? : ) sweet pics!

 

[nobrks]

I got to see it

Man that is just plain fantastic!

HZJ73 ready to climb the volcano? : ) sweet pics!

HZJ73 is not race rady yet , but I did get my friends '93 snowmobile to run and went to see the eruption with my own eys today.
-12 deg Celsius, wind 10-12m/s, 1000m altiude

The sound of the eruption
YouTube - Fimmvörðuháls Volcano eruption Iceland 2010

The sound of lawa crowling forward
YouTube - Fimmvörðuháls volcano eruption, glowing lava crawling forward

the lava is allways finding a new rout to flow, this is the old lava-fall

Many people, helicopters, airplanes, trucks here today(and a 44" LC70 series in the photo). 6hour walk for hikers (one way)

hot lava on ice

on the way home, 25km on Glacier

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_mo1xXpEDzCQ/S66hDMzAEUI/AAAAAAAAGM0/GO6yhaCA36I/s800/2010-03 097.jpg

 

[fj404life]

Awesome pics!!

 

[soenke]

x2 !!

 

[lulo]

... x3 !

 

[The911s]

Amazing pics. I've been wanting to make it to Iceland for a while. I guess over there, 4x4 is more than just a fashion statement (like it is for me in LA... lol)

 

[nobrks]

No eruption

The Volcano eruption moved (as you might know by now) from Fimmvörðuháls to Eyjafjalla-glacier, and caused flood and some troble for air-trafic in Europe for a few weeks, but the main Icelandic airport was only closed for a few days
The eruption has stopped, it made troble to those living in 20km radius from the volcano, but did not affect the rest of Icelanders.

You can find a lot of photos and video by shearching for: "Eyjafjallajokull"
video shoving pressur waves
Video showing lightnings


One of my buddy did go on a expodition to mount a net connect camera on the glacier, while the eruption was active (area closed for public), these photos are from him:
2km from the eruption

The glacier is coverd in 40cm (16in) of ash, and the holes are after gloving lava, that has melted the ice.

New webpace has now been made to introduce Iceland; Inspired By Iceland

and this promotion video;

 

[lulo]

New webpace has now been made to introduce Iceland; Inspired By Iceland

and this promotion video;

Great Promotion VID!


Thanks mate

 

[Vanisljoe]

Man I bet those abandoned farm houses are full of all kinds of collectable peices. Antique furniture and doors ect... Did you ever go into any and see what was there?