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The Tradeoff of Trails

Viewing this incredible chasm from the new, more restricted trail, reveals one of the older, more precarious paths that hasn't yet been recovered by nature--in Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, Iceland.

 

Like so many wondrous places in Iceland that tourists once passed by unawares, Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon was 'discovered' by the world through photography and soon overwhelmed with footfalls along every fin of rock and earth along the canyon's rim. The views may be slightly different now, and the paths less trepidatious, but the canyon's beauties aren't lost on or for anyone--present or future.

 

On this cloudy day, I loved the tiny hints of fall color among the green and sage mosses clumped along the canyon's edges and walls. And, of course, that waterfall snaking its way into the stream below was pretty great too.

 

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Uploaded on February 13, 2023
Taken on September 17, 2022