The Laugavegur Hiking Trail Day 3 Aftavatn to Emstrur Botnar (Iceland)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.45 mi
- Elevation gain
- 774 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,076 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,994 ft
- TrailRank
- 42
- Min elevation
- 860 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 7 hours 53 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2196
- Uploaded
- July 29, 2015
- Recorded
- July 2015
near Skogar, Suðurland (Lýðveldið Ísland)
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From volcanohuts.com :
Day three: Áftavatn - Emstrur (Botnar)
Distance: 15 km, 6 – 7 hours
Elevation decrease: 40 m
Starting Coordinates GPS: N63°51.470 – W19°13.640
Finish coordinates GPS: N63°45.980 – W19°22.480
The trail leads you over the Brattháls Ridge into Hvanngil Ravine, wading across the small Bratthálskvísl River. In the Hvanngil Ravine you will find two huts, one built for sheepherds in 1963 and one for tourists, built in 1995. As Álftavatn and Hvanngil are only 5 km apart, Hvanngil can be used as an alternate accommodation. The huts have toilet facilities, showers and a small camping site in an old lava field.
Leaving Hvanngil you cross a bridge over the Kaldaklofskvísl River. On the eastern bank of Kaldaklofskvísl River the trail splits in two. You should take the path leading south to Emstrur and Þórsmörk. The other branch leads east to Mælifellssandur (Road F 210). Soon after that, another river has to be waded.
For a few kilometers, the Laugavegur Trail joins a mountain road. You can stay on the road all the way to the Emstrur hut or take a hiking trail alongside the road.
You will have to cross the powerful Nyrðri Emstruá River on a bridge that the road will take you to. After crossing the bridge you will traverse few kilometers on flat land until you suddenly find the Botnar huts in Emstrur.
Day three: Áftavatn - Emstrur (Botnar)
Distance: 15 km, 6 – 7 hours
Elevation decrease: 40 m
Starting Coordinates GPS: N63°51.470 – W19°13.640
Finish coordinates GPS: N63°45.980 – W19°22.480
The trail leads you over the Brattháls Ridge into Hvanngil Ravine, wading across the small Bratthálskvísl River. In the Hvanngil Ravine you will find two huts, one built for sheepherds in 1963 and one for tourists, built in 1995. As Álftavatn and Hvanngil are only 5 km apart, Hvanngil can be used as an alternate accommodation. The huts have toilet facilities, showers and a small camping site in an old lava field.
Leaving Hvanngil you cross a bridge over the Kaldaklofskvísl River. On the eastern bank of Kaldaklofskvísl River the trail splits in two. You should take the path leading south to Emstrur and Þórsmörk. The other branch leads east to Mælifellssandur (Road F 210). Soon after that, another river has to be waded.
For a few kilometers, the Laugavegur Trail joins a mountain road. You can stay on the road all the way to the Emstrur hut or take a hiking trail alongside the road.
You will have to cross the powerful Nyrðri Emstruá River on a bridge that the road will take you to. After crossing the bridge you will traverse few kilometers on flat land until you suddenly find the Botnar huts in Emstrur.
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