My strange life on the little Island: Lazy blogger

Well I can be a lazy blogger but I’ll not admit I’m a lazy hiker. Last weekend I went hiking with some of my friends from work to a mountain close to Reykjavik called Botnssúlur. The tour was considered as a part of preparation for the Kilimanjaro tour next month. On the picture above you can see the group without me as I did the photo.

We woke up early and began walking around nine o’clock. The sky in Thingvellir was just marvellous as you can see on that photo.

After we all came together at the service station in Thingvellir we could go on to the mountain. As you can see on the guy in the middle who is my brother, some of us were rather tired at that time of the day. It was a Saturday after all.

One of us got stuck in the snow where we parked the cars. We helped him out of the trouble and set off walking after that.

We became in two groups most of the time. Most of us were age around 30-40 and we went not very fast and chose not the steepest paths. The two in the front you can see are fifty-something and they went in a head of us younger once and they also did some ice climbing in the steeper slopes of the mountain. You can see the top of the mountain Botnssúlur (Syðsta-Súla) in that picture.

On following picture you can see us walking to the top.

After a long walk we came to the top where we could sit down. The guy reading the newspaper had it with him not to read but to sit on as he did after I took that picture. He can't read anyway...