Into Þórsmörk: Iceland’s Wild Playground 🇮🇸 Day 4 Hike – Sunday 23rd August 2026 Emstrur – Þórsmörk 15km We woke up at Emstrur to a little bit of rain. After three days of surprisingly decent weather, Iceland clearly decided we shouldn’t get too comfortable. Thankfully, it didn’t last long. About 40 minutes after setting off,…

Across Black Deserts to Emstrur 🇮🇸 Day 3 Hike – Saturday 22nd August 2026 Hvanngil – Emstrur Distance 16km plus extra canyon hike of 4.5km By Day 3, we’d well and truly settled into trail life.  Wake up, pack everything back into the backpacks, eat breakfast, put the boots on and head off into the…

Rivers, Rhyolite &  Hvanngil 🇮🇸 Day 2 Hike – Friday 21st August 2026 Hrafntinnusker – Hvanngil Distance 12km After a surprisingly decent night’s sleep at Hrafntinnusker, we woke up feeling pretty good. We’d wrapped ourselves up in layers during the night, but considering we’d spent the night camping at high altitude in the Icelandic Highlands,…

Into the Highlands, The Land of Fire and Colour 🇮🇸 Day 1 Hike – Thursday 20th August Landmannalaugar – Hrafntinnusker 12k, 664 m ascent After eight years of waiting, the day had finally arrived. We were up early and on the 7am bus from Reykjavík, heading towards Landmannalaugar and the start of our 80+ km…

The Calm Before the Carry 🇮🇸 Wednesday 18th August 2026 Reykjavík, Iceland 🇮🇸 We touched down in Reykjavík bright and early running on excitement, coffee and the slightly surreal feeling that our next adventure was finally beginning.  Our flight was at 6.10am from Edinburgh so it gave us a full day and night in this…

Eight Years in the Making 🇮🇸 Wednesday 28th August 2026 Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – Reykjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸 There are some trips that you plan, book and go on.  And then there are the ones that somehow take eight years to actually happen. We first visited Iceland back in 2018 and like most people who have…

Loch Cuaich Saturday 18th – Monday 20th July 2026 Some places are worth every single mile… and Loch Cuaich is definitely one of them. The journey in is long. And by long, I mean the kind of road where you start wondering if Google Maps has actually sent you to the middle of nowhere on…