Iceland trek

We went on a trek!
A guided trek.
This is something a bit unusual for us as we are generally independent travellers, but this time I opted for the easy, more expensive option of letting someone else do all the organising.

It was a 4 day/3 night trek along the most popular route in Iceland.

The Laugavegur Trek.
We went with Arctic Adventures
I let take all the worry out of organising huts, food, transport and what to do if the weather turned foul.
Plus they were a really great mob.
We had 2 excellent guides Francois and Elly.

There were 20 trekkers, which seemed like a lot, especially when we are used to just being a duo, but they were a fab mob, young and old, and from all over the world. There was always someone different to talk to so you never got bored. And everyone (almost everyone) pitched in and helped prepare meals, clean up etc.

On the map below we started at B and finished at A, staying at 3 huts in between.

This way we started higher and finished lower.

Looking back to Landmannalauger

20 walkers and 2 guides

Hut 1 at Hrafntinnusker

Geothermal area on day 2

Towards the lake and hut 2 at Alftavatn

Hut 2 next to a lake Alftavatn

Hut 2 at dinner time

Small hut and an old farm

Day 3

Hut 3 and the camping area at Emstrur

Hut 3. Very cosy

Towards Porsmork

The final destination - the hut at Porsmork

Huts and the High Country

There's something about huts.
Is it the the stories they tell, their history, the remote spots, the vernacular architecture, the flimsiness, the way they laugh in the face of nature?
What is it?

The high country has more then it's fair share of huts that can be visited and appreciated and used if need be.

We've visited quite a few in the New South Wales alps, we have used them as emergency shelters sometimes.
We have also stayed in the old huts along the Overland Track in Tassie.
We even joined the Kosciusko Huts Association at one stage.

So it was nice to visit some huts in the high country of Victoria and take some snaps!

 Howards Hut, built in 1962 for use by cattlemen.

JB Plain Hut, built in 1971 by scouts and venturers 

using material from two other houses.

 Wallace's Hut, built in 1889 by the three Wallace brothers, 

cattlemen of the high country.

 Cope Hut, built in 1929 as a ski refuge.

Great, eh?