Fagradalsfjall

What do you do when you get to Iceland mid-morning after a sleepless night on the plane and your hotel room won't be ready until late afternoon? You climb a recently-active volcano, of course. Why take it easy? Besides, there wasn't much open today. It's Ascension Day, a national holiday.

It was extremely windy on the volcano and quite steep. (For Jenelle's reference: the wind was as strong as our hike at Pt. Reyes in March.) I made it about three-quarters of the way up the volcano, close enough to see the lava flow.Then I looked up at the next part of the trail (which was even steeper) and said "enough". I waited at that spot while Doug and Ron climbed higher. That's them trudging along, the two black specks in the center. In the foreground is the lava flow.
Fagradalsfjall is a tuya volcano near Reykjavík. It's last eruption started March 19, 2021 and ended in September. Iceland is an island of ice (glaciers) and fire (volcanos.)

There was almost no vegetation along the way--except this one small mound of moss and flowers.

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