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Kids feeling warm air coming out of soil from magma chamber
Switching scenes--a major highlight of our trip was the Fimmvorduhals hike, which is a 14-mile, 3500-foot climb ranked by some as one of the world's greatest hikes, if not the best hike. You start by walking past about 25 enormous waterfalls one after the other for 5 miles; then walk on two different glaciers, at the base of Eyjafjallajokull, the volcano that erupted in 2010 and caused air traffic stoppages for a month in Europe. In 2010. There we walked through lave fields and hills (several hundred feet high) that were all of four years old. Walking on new land was just incredible--land that our guides promise just wasn't there prior to 2010.
The hike ended with a 5-mile descent into a green-yellow, flowery grouping of hills and huge glacial rivers in an area called Thorsmork. We had to use chains and ropes. The kids made it all the way just fine though.
Here, the kids are pausing to overturn rocks and feel (and sometimes see) warm/hot air coming out of the soil with the magma chamber not far below the surface.
Kids feeling warm air coming out of soil from magma chamber
Switching scenes--a major highlight of our trip was the Fimmvorduhals hike, which is a 14-mile, 3500-foot climb ranked by some as one of the world's greatest hikes, if not the best hike. You start by walking past about 25 enormous waterfalls one after the other for 5 miles; then walk on two different glaciers, at the base of Eyjafjallajokull, the volcano that erupted in 2010 and caused air traffic stoppages for a month in Europe. In 2010. There we walked through lave fields and hills (several hundred feet high) that were all of four years old. Walking on new land was just incredible--land that our guides promise just wasn't there prior to 2010.
The hike ended with a 5-mile descent into a green-yellow, flowery grouping of hills and huge glacial rivers in an area called Thorsmork. We had to use chains and ropes. The kids made it all the way just fine though.
Here, the kids are pausing to overturn rocks and feel (and sometimes see) warm/hot air coming out of the soil with the magma chamber not far below the surface.