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Dec 15

Volunteers wanted! Applications for 2025 are now open

Today we begin our search for volunteers who will join us in 2025.

We are very excited to begin gathering the team for next season. Our new programme includes three and four-week volunteer placements as well as longer placements for team leaders. Places are limited and allocations begin in the New Year, so if you would like to join us next summer, don’t delay!

Full details including placement descriptions, dates and application forms are now available here…

Volunteer opportunities

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.

 

Jan 28

Planning for summer

As we allocate our volunteer places and the teams start to fill up, we look towards the summer trail projects ahead of us.

Our work season in Thórsmörk and Godaland starts in the spring as the snow melts and the trails are revealed. We begin with a survey of the trail network to gather information and highlight sections that have been damaged over the winter. The full picture is only clear when the snow has gone and we can then put together a task list for our Trailteams who begin their work in June.

Late snow last April delayed the trail surveys a little but created excellent conditions for exploring the area (pictured here). We also added an Instagram reel that captures our adventures out on the snowy trails.

Our volunteer placement applications will remain open until February 11th. Details, dates and application forms can be found here.