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[maud]

Last night, arriving in Skaftafell at 8 pm (or, as they say here, 20:00), I took a seven hour hike from 10 ´til 5:30 so I could see the place. I can´t believe anybody else didn´t think to do the same thing; I was absolutely and totally alone for 23 km. I saw the sun set over one arm of the glacier and rise over another. I drank the glacial run-

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[earendil]

Thule, the period of cosmography,
Doth vaunt of Hecla, whose sulphurious fire
Doth melt the frozen clime and thaw the sky!

[maud]

Apparently, the major explosion of the fourteenth century put out a cloud that spread as far as Moscow, earning it it's reputation for unpleasantness. Travelers would go to visit, and come back to report that they heard the screams of the damned echoing from inside.

Sounds nice

[ragneroracing]

I'm really jealous, but I'm not going to fag around about it like that top post. Sweet Lord.

Re: Sounds nice

[maud]

Try not to be a jerk in my journal, please, especially as I suspect you didn't go to high school with us, and probably don't understand.