Ferðafélag Íslands | Thórsmörk Trailteam

Apr 20

Returning to Thórsmörk… our season begins

This week we headed back to Thórsmörk and Goðaland for our first visit of the season.

As well as visiting our volunteer camp at Langidalur, we were able to take a look at some of the trails and the work that was completed there last summer. Although the trails are very wet and muddy for hiking at this time of year, we found that the general conditions on recent worksites on the east side of Valahnúkur are encouraging (steps pictured below). Improvements on the Valahnúkur trail will continue this season and the work will begin when the trails have dried out. We added an Instagram reel from our visit.

We are very excited to welcome our first international volunteers and to get back to work on the trails in May.

Nov 4

Thank you to our volunteers!

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the volunteers who joined us in Thórsmörk this season. It was another amazing summer and we really do appreciate all the hard work that was done by our teams.

This year we were joined by 45 international volunteers and together we completed more than 200 weeks of trail maintenance and practical conservation tasks throughout Thórsmörk and Goðaland.

We do hope that everyone enjoyed their time with us at the volunteer camps and all those long sunny days out on the hiking trails.

Preparations for next season begin soon. Dates, details and application forms for our 2024 projects will be available here on December 15th.

Feb 23

Langidalur calling

Pictures from our Langidalur Volunteer camp.

We look forward to returning to Thórsmörk and Goðaland in April to begin our preparations for the summer work programme. Earlier in February, there was still a lot of snow at our our camp. Weather conditions in the spring can have a huge effect on the trails and we will carry out surveys when we arrive back to decide where to focus our work for this season.

These pictures were taken by our friends at the Volcano Huts in Húsadalur.