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Ásbyrgi from Eyjan [explored 23-08-2020]
On our last trip to Iceland we visited the Ásbyrgi canyon again. Always when you visit somewhere you see something that you want to do and can't that day. The first time we visited I wanted to climb Eyjan but we had no time, so this time, that was the plan and we climbed to the top.
Eyjan is a rocky divide in the middle of the valley like a wedge of cheese, just hundreds of feet high, this photo is from the pointy end.
The views were stunning but none of the photos really worked out so I gave this one a little help with Luminar 4, all the tree colours are real, after all it was in the fall.
The waterfall in the distance, now just a trickle is the remains of a once raging torrent that carved this valley in a very short space of time, possibly weeks.
From Wiki -
Ásbyrgi was most likely formed by catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum after the last Ice Age, first 8-10,000 years ago, and then again some 3,000 years ago.
The Icelandic legend explains the unusual shape of the canyon differently. Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here.
About where I'm standing.
Ásbyrgi from Eyjan [explored 23-08-2020]
On our last trip to Iceland we visited the Ásbyrgi canyon again. Always when you visit somewhere you see something that you want to do and can't that day. The first time we visited I wanted to climb Eyjan but we had no time, so this time, that was the plan and we climbed to the top.
Eyjan is a rocky divide in the middle of the valley like a wedge of cheese, just hundreds of feet high, this photo is from the pointy end.
The views were stunning but none of the photos really worked out so I gave this one a little help with Luminar 4, all the tree colours are real, after all it was in the fall.
The waterfall in the distance, now just a trickle is the remains of a once raging torrent that carved this valley in a very short space of time, possibly weeks.
From Wiki -
Ásbyrgi was most likely formed by catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jökulsá á Fjöllum after the last Ice Age, first 8-10,000 years ago, and then again some 3,000 years ago.
The Icelandic legend explains the unusual shape of the canyon differently. Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here.
About where I'm standing.