The morning after completing the 25-kilometer Fimmvörðuháls hike, we woke up with stiff, aching muscles in our tent at the Básar campsite in Þórsmörk. The last thing we felt like doing was more hiking, but we had six hours to kill until the bus back to Reykjavík, and it’s not like there were a lot of other options. More hiking it is!

We decided to walk to the Langidalur campsite, on the northern side of the valley. Our path brought us to the Krossá River; a wide and deceptively powerful westwa...
Published on September 18, 2013 11:05