After spending the night just south of the Vatnajokull, in a local farm stay, we set off quite early this time... The weather was really grey and there was not much snow around, but we followed Atli's advices to go and explore Kalfafellsdalur, a deep and lost valley south of the Skalafellsjökull glacier, the road ended quite quickly and we drove in the frozen river bed for about 10km, deep into the middle of nowhere... Big side valleys, numerous misty 1000m peak and cliffy couloirs were surrounding us, we found a crazy looking couloir that was filled in with snow all the way down, we could only see the first 200m of it but we thought we'll give it a try. As we were going up, the couloir opened into a bigger valley leading to summits on both sides, we picked one, actually we picked the only one we could see because the clouds were quite thick uphigh. The skiing down was fun, compact snow again, ending up in the narrow couloir all the way back down to the valley. Looking around, we really felt in the end of the world, in one of these dark valley from Lord of the Rings. The weather was closing in and we decided to keep driving east, apprarently, that is where the sun is going to be, but right now, it is snowing strongly again, frozen cliffs and glaciers on the left, the ocean on the right... weird place... loving it!
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| Bredarlon, we can see the icebergs frozen into the lagoon... |
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| The entrance of the long valley of Kalfafellsdalur, the end of the world... |
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| Little white on the summit, but no wind. |
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| Félix Hentz finishing the run, the car is still waiting for us in the riverbed. |
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| The team coming back from Kalfafellsdalur |
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| Pier busy driving, Paul busy as well... |
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| The road is slowly getting white, still a long way to go... |
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| A ghost truck passing us in the snow storm |
