From Langidalur | Thórsmörk Trailteam

Aug 29

Adventures on the Laugavegur trail

Our 6-week volunteer placements include a ‘Hiking week’ when the team has the chance to take a break from the trail work and explore the area. This year our volunteers found some good weather days and were able to complete the famous 54km Laugavegur trail.

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the Ferðafélag Íslands Hut Wardens who looked after our team and helped them along the way.

A ‘relaxing’ break from building hiking trails in Thórsmörk…

Preparing to cross Þröngá river (Ondřej Kupka)

Hiking week on Laugavegurinn (Ondřej Kupka)

Aug 8

Trail work, tree planting and rain

The long sunny days of July already seem a long time ago as the start of August has brought us storms, growing rivers and lots of rain.

Despite the weather, progress has been very good, the team are still smiling and our work continues… with orange waterproofs close at hand.

Tree planting team at Tumastaðir Forestry Station (Michelle Pröstler)

Checking numbers and repainting trail markers on Laugavegurinn (Anna Mariager)

Hiding from the rain at our Langidalur hut (Nicolas Talou)

Our team heading out to work (Nicolas Talou)

Box steps on their way to Valahnúkur (Anna Mariager)

Rainy (but still beautiful) day at Langidalur (Nicolas Talou)

Tree planting at Tumastaðir (Rahel Paasch)

Bridge building at Langidalur (Nicolas Talou)

Sunshine on Valahnúkur (Theresa Schaber)

Jul 27

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Our week on the trails

The team have gathered some of their pictures of this season’s first big week on the trails. It has been an amazing week of trail work, bridge building, hiking and camp fires… with lots more adventures still to come.