Hard Ice 2: Icelandic Boogaloo

After working as a glacier guide for just about a year and a half now I jumped at the chance to improve my guiding skill set by taking the Hard Ice 2 course (Jökla 2 in Icelandic). This course is designed to teach you how to guide in terrain that is a little bit more spicy […]

Hiking Fimmvörðuháls

Couple of months ago during the not so sunny summer month of June I decided to have a crack at the famous Fimmvörðuháls hike. The hike begins at the base of the waterfall Skógafoss, continues north between the two ice caps Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull and then finally into Þórsmörk (you can read more about that here). After […]