Meyjará to Reykjafjörður via Hrolleifsborg
near Árneshreppur, Vestfirðir (Lýðveldið Ísland)
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We might have been able to complete the trip in one day but it was getting very late (approaching midnight) so we decided to camp on a fairly flat gravel field on the flanks of Miðmundahorn.
Waypoints
Bjarnarfjörður
You are actually supposed to wade across the fjord, not the river. The tide seemed a bit high for that so we did the river - and it was OK.
Camp 1
This is where we started this part of our hike (we had spent the previous night in Drangavík) - one of my favourite camp sites on the left bank of the river Meyjará.
Camp 2
It took us a bit of time to find a suitable place to camp, there was a lot of snow. Eventually we settled for this fairly flat piece of gravel.
Camp 3
Our destination - Reykjafjörður. A wonderful palce with a 25 metre swimming pool and a hot tub - as well as fantastic views. It doesn't get any better.
Hrolleifsborg
Finally at the top! I had been there only once before, that time wew did it on cross-coubtry skis across the ice cap from Kaldalón.
Miðmundahorn
If we had had time we might have done Miðmundahorn "en passant" but as it happened we climbed it a couple of days later from Reykjafjörður.
Reykjarfjarðarós
Another day, another glacial river to cross. Before getting to the river itself we passed a little brook that was comfortably warm. It would of course have been more welcome had it been across the river so we could warm our frozen feet in it - which is exactly what a group of foreign hikers were doing.
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