A trip to Gljúfrasteinn
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 25.27 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,450 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,404 ft
- Max elevation
- 239 ft
- TrailRank
- 52
- Min elevation
- 15 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 hours 49 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3172
- Uploaded
- May 28, 2017
- Recorded
- May 2017
near Reykjavík, Höfuðborgarsvæði (Lýðveldið Ísland)
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Itinerary description
Gljúfrasteinn was the home of our Nobel Price winner in Literature 1955, Halldór Laxnes. The house was converted into a museum, where the author´s mome is preserved just as it was when he lived and worked there. We biked on trail by highway 1 on the way there and by the ocean on the way back.
Waypoints
Bridge
32 ft
Under the traffic
Here you go under the bridge on a bridge that hangs from the road bridge.
Photo
138 ft
Elf home
Those stones are said to be home of elves and were in the middle of the road when they were making it, but they got permission from the elves to move it to were it is now.
River
Photo
136 ft
Turning to the trail by the ocean
Here you turn on the way back, you go under highway 1 and then the trail goes by the ocean.
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