Hesteyri - Aðalvík - Látrar
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 9.03 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,120 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,156 ft
- Max elevation
- 949 ft
- TrailRank
- 41
- Min elevation
- -73 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 5 hours 43 minutes
- Coordinates
- 441
- Uploaded
- June 28, 2015
- Recorded
- June 2015
near Bolungarvík, Vestfirðir (Lýðveldið Ísland)
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Itinerary description
This walk is also available as a guided tour but we decided to do this on our own. Ferry from Ísafjörður goes at 09:30. To book the ferry, send email to westtours@westtours.is. It's important to check the weather conditions for Hornstrandir. We went mid June and there was still snow in many areas, makes it hard to find the path. Bring along a towel, you got to cross at least one river towards the end. Obviously also bring a camera with a long lense, there's many arctic foxes in the area, especially on the beach.
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Hello there! I will be heading to Iceland this coming June!
Just a few questions regarding this trail, i hope you don't mind!
1. I understand that you did this trail on your own, so did you follow route signs or something?
2. Did you rent a GPS?
3. Did you camp for the night?
Thank you so much!
Regards,
Aaron
Hi there, I will also be taking this route in early July this year.
If you have answers for Q1 + Q2 for Aaron, I would be so grateful to hear them.
Best wishes,
Erin
hi
1) did the trail by ourselves. there was no signs. there was still snow in a few areas so not much to go on other than the gps.
2) I used my phone. I either use wikiloc with offline maps or oruxmaps with offline maps (when it was still possible to download openstreetmap areas) and track data. I always make sure my wife also had a map on the phone and we carry extra battery pack
3) we didn't camp. did it as a daytrip, dropoff and pickup via the ferry on the same day.
enjoy