Hvannadalshnjukur from Sandfell, May 2020
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 16.32 mi
- Elevation gain
- 7,356 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 7,356 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,950 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 317 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 14 hours 40 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4238
- Uploaded
- May 19, 2020
- Recorded
- May 2020
near Fagurhólsmýri, Austurland (Ísland)
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Itinerary description
Hike took over 14hrs, most of the groups starts at 4am, we wanted to skip traffic and started at 3am, 6 other groups went to the top on the same day. There are few disadvantages of being first, one of them is that you need to make path in the snow, first person on the line had snowshoes which made it easier and less annoying, second more important are crevasses, our group felt into 6 of them, first 5 only with one leg and into 6th (006) our friend went down with both legs up to the hip but managed to get out by him self. Crevasses that are marked on map are covering with those viable on satellite map. Glacier starts from 1100m at the beginning you follow visible path and line up in place simply called "rock" (steinn)
Waypoints
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4,765 ft
001 crevasse
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4,880 ft
002 crevasse
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5,132 ft
003 crevasse
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5,102 ft
004 crevasse
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5,620 ft
005 crevasse
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3,639 ft
Rock, rope up
Waypoint
6,940 ft
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