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The ice pick is for stability and help in pulling your self up or anchoring a location to stand.

Resting for a few minutes taking in the scenery.

Crampons are fastened to your shoes. They are essential gear on steep snowfields, glaciers and vertical ice. I know what you are thinking, and no, they are not called “clamp-ons.”

Crampon is a French word for a piece of gear first designed in 1908 in a 10-point style. ... On ice climbing crampons, the front points are narrow to better penetrate the ice.

Time for questions.

Why is glacier ice blue? Glacier ice is blue because the red ,long wave lengths, part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue, short wavelengths, light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears.

Up close on the crystal blue ice

A last look at the glacier and where we had hiked the last couple of hours. What a thrill.

Beggi, our guide, brought along a bottle of THE BEST ICELANDIC VODKA. We drank it over glacier ice he picked up during the climb.. The ice blue ice. The first one was great. The second one was fantastic. The third...AWESOME! I think we went to lunch afterwards.. ha

A group of Icelandic students getting ready to hike up onto the glacier. See the pile of crampons behind the truck.

The group we had just seen beginning their hike.

We had the opportunity to go 4 wheeling in Iceland in the area of Vik beach, Black Sands Beach, and hills above. What a great time that was.

Our Super Jeep Tour, off road driving, took us to a number of interesting places we could have not gone with a traditional vehicle.

Large basalt columns.

The closest major landmark is the Dyrhólaey rock arch and cliffs. While many seabirds are found at Reynisfjara, it is nothing compared to the numbers here. From May to August, it is one of the best places to see puffins from land.

Great area for Birding

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