Snæfellsjökull
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.64 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,956 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 2,946 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,723 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 1,820 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 7 hours 12 minutes
- Coordinates
- 997
- Uploaded
- January 6, 2008
- Recorded
- May 2007
near Stapi, Snafellsnes- og Hnappadalssysla (Ísland)
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Itinerary description
With its symmetrical volcanic cone, Snæfellsjökull is arguably the most beautiful phenomenon visible from Reykjavik, 60 nautical miles across the bay. Still active, it is covered by an icecap - and was cast by Jules Verne as the starting point of his "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". For pictures from this ski trip click the title. Note that the swings on the downward leg are giant slalom turns - you don't need to faithfully copy them! The blood on my face in some of the pictures must be blamed on snowmobiles - they had rutted the snow rather severely so I took a really bad tumble. No broken bones though.
Waypoints
Archaeological site
3,074 ft
Cairn
06-MAY-07 13:10:58 - 06-MAY-07 13:10:58
Car park
1,998 ft
Ford
This is how far Tommi got in his Ford pickup
Car park
1,821 ft
Pajero
This is how far I got in my Pajero
Summit
4,760 ft
Peak
06-MAY-07 15:50:27 - 06-MAY-07 15:50:27
Car park
2,044 ft
Summer Parking
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Like many of my tracks, this one exceeds the maximum number of track points supported by most GPS units (Garmin ones accept 500 per track). In this case it's probably simplest to split it into two 500-point segments - I wouldn't be surprised if chopping it at the peak does the trick! In MapSource there's a special "scissors" tool for achieving this.