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The Frenchman made a sprint in the morning, got the early wake up and he was already walking away from camp. His plan was to doubletime the hike that we planned 7 to 9 days for, in 4 days. Very possible, but holy fuck considering everything thats coming up.
Walk from campsite, and we see Pic 1. We need to go around the mountain to the left, via coast, on the ocean, but the coast is innaccessible because it turns into a cliff+ocean combo part way. Fortunately, the innovative minds at Kojima Productions have thought of this, and had a Climbing Anchor right in a convenient spot. We go up the hill, then use the climbing anchor to drop down into a nice flat coast section. The Plan was simple. My friend, less experienced in climbing, will go first, with very little and light gear. Me, more experienced in climbing, will follow with all of the rest of the equipment in different bags in one climb-down. Unfortunately, one strap came loose while i was climbing down, and you can check what happened in the webm below.
We had full rubber suits with us, and so for the next part, we donned them, thinking the ocean waves might splash us. They did occassionally, but nothing crazy. No wind, so the waves were weak fortunately.
The rest of the walk that day was rather OK; 2 painful groin deep river crossings of near 0 degrees C, the ocean, sand sand sand, and mushy mosslands. And, I do love the US Army, they food is downright tongue swallowing de-liciouse as hell.
And funnily, like the brits who made the WW2 base, which was immediately abandoned because it was completely uninhabitable, the americans in their extreme bullheadedness, thought they could succeed where the brits failed. So they built the Straumnes Air Station on top of the mountain above this campsite. They built the base for 4 years, with expensive radar equipment and everything, in the 50-ies, and then; abandoned it because it was completely uninhabitable lmfao.
There's two images in this post's attachments: theres english translation inside the image below each icelandic text. One is of the americans attempting to build a base, the other is of life on this peninsula before my time. I wont rewrite the text from those images, if you feel like knowing these 2 funny stories, the images are mostly readable.
Latrar campsite was nice, had some people at the village who were there for the summer for the one month its habitable. Like 4 or 5 people. Those were their summer homes, / summer retreats. With the exception of the roughly 100 meter climb (down), this day was doable for anyone who can walk on difficult slippery terrain.
The Frenchman was nowhere to be seen, he said he would be going one more campsite further in the same day. This morning was the last we ever saw him.
There was a ruin of bricks and concrete, a garage for a rusted US army jeep i did not take pictures of. We tarped this over and made a drying house of it for our clothes.
Walk from campsite, and we see Pic 1. We need to go around the mountain to the left, via coast, on the ocean, but the coast is innaccessible because it turns into a cliff+ocean combo part way. Fortunately, the innovative minds at Kojima Productions have thought of this, and had a Climbing Anchor right in a convenient spot. We go up the hill, then use the climbing anchor to drop down into a nice flat coast section. The Plan was simple. My friend, less experienced in climbing, will go first, with very little and light gear. Me, more experienced in climbing, will follow with all of the rest of the equipment in different bags in one climb-down. Unfortunately, one strap came loose while i was climbing down, and you can check what happened in the webm below.
We had full rubber suits with us, and so for the next part, we donned them, thinking the ocean waves might splash us. They did occassionally, but nothing crazy. No wind, so the waves were weak fortunately.
The rest of the walk that day was rather OK; 2 painful groin deep river crossings of near 0 degrees C, the ocean, sand sand sand, and mushy mosslands. And, I do love the US Army, they food is downright tongue swallowing de-liciouse as hell.
And funnily, like the brits who made the WW2 base, which was immediately abandoned because it was completely uninhabitable, the americans in their extreme bullheadedness, thought they could succeed where the brits failed. So they built the Straumnes Air Station on top of the mountain above this campsite. They built the base for 4 years, with expensive radar equipment and everything, in the 50-ies, and then; abandoned it because it was completely uninhabitable lmfao.
There's two images in this post's attachments: theres english translation inside the image below each icelandic text. One is of the americans attempting to build a base, the other is of life on this peninsula before my time. I wont rewrite the text from those images, if you feel like knowing these 2 funny stories, the images are mostly readable.
Latrar campsite was nice, had some people at the village who were there for the summer for the one month its habitable. Like 4 or 5 people. Those were their summer homes, / summer retreats. With the exception of the roughly 100 meter climb (down), this day was doable for anyone who can walk on difficult slippery terrain.
The Frenchman was nowhere to be seen, he said he would be going one more campsite further in the same day. This morning was the last we ever saw him.
There was a ruin of bricks and concrete, a garage for a rusted US army jeep i did not take pictures of. We tarped this over and made a drying house of it for our clothes.
This day ended outside of any access to civilization, with a campsite that was definitely a campsite as it had a shithouse. The door to the shithouse was unhinged, and the smell was top tier 10/10 sewer level aroma. Overall, anyone could do this day, though slipping and falling is inevitable in the marshlands later.
The frenchman had left some marks for us on the path, his footsteps in the snow occasionally. He seemed to mostly try and avoid the snow.
I had a low amount of cooking fuel on me, but i did take a bunch of candles, and for tonight i wanted hot soup. So i wanted to save my fuel (saving the medkit for the boss and never using it moment) and i built one candle into the Super Fuck-Candle 9000. I shoved about 20 match sticks deep into the candle wax, each working like a wick, which caused the entire candle wax to liquify within seconds of lighting the candle. Within a minute, it seemed to be more vaporized white gas wax than liquid wax. The candle burnt hot and well, but was INCREDIBLY wind sensitive. Last pic related. I cooked a pot of water on this, but would not recommend, with wind this is impossible to use. But works in a pinch. Also it was a cinnamon candle so it smelled real nice.
This day ended outside of any access to civilization, with a campsite that was definitely a campsite as it had a shithouse. The door to the shithouse was unhinged, and the smell was top tier 10/10 sewer level aroma. Overall, anyone could do this day,...