Some things

A dip in Hell

Last spring I went on an huge ‘road’ trip across the biggest glacier in Europe (Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland). On what became an epic last leg, which lasted for about 36 hours, we stopped to take a bath. Our spot, a volcanic crater next to the volcano Askja called Víti. Víti is icelandic for, well, Hell. So we bathed in Hell. Which was nice.

Going to Hell

This is the way to Hell, literally. This is a lake in an old volcanic crater near Krafla Volcano in Iceland. The water is normally warm because of the geothermal powers that created this beatiful place but we were there in the spring while there was still alot of cold water that had melted from snow on the slopes of the crater. 

But still. We went to Hell. And then we bathed there…

This gives you some idea about the amount of ash that was spewed out in last years volcanic eruption in Grímsvötn (wich by the way was considerably less than in the big one in Eyjafjallajökull two years ago). At the roots of Vatnajökull glacier (on wich Grímsvötn is located) it hasn’t snowed as much as higher up on the glacier so there was more thawing. But here the ash had formed a sort of protective layer for the ice. So basically, this is how thick the ash was here after the eruption. 

Wow.