#hornstrandir — Public Fediverse posts

Before our hiking trip in Iceland's Hornstrandir nature reserve, I counted the rivers that'd need to be forded on a given route.

That was not the best use of my time.

#Iceland #Hornstrandir #hiking

On the other hand, it also doesn't have ... this.

I had never seen clouds like this in my life.

#Iceland #Hornstrandir

#Berlin / #Germany are strange. You can't drink from any stream or river, the temperature is above 14C, there's people instead of sheep on the road, tunnels have at least two lanes, so many people, fruits/vegs are edible, and it gets dark at night.

#Hornstrandir #Iceland

Hornstrandir is not terrible. I believe this to be strongly correlated to the fox to people ratio.

#Iceland #Hornstrandir #Hiking #ArcticFox

This is a very full backpack 😬 I pity the poor fool who has to carry that thing for 98km and >3000m elevation gain and down and through several glacial rivers for the next 6 days.

...

Oh. FML.

I'm sure this will have been a great idea in hindsight.

#Hornstrandir #Iceland #Hiking

Us: Let's spend a lot of time, effort, and money to hike a remote, protected location to enjoy nature and not see people.

Other people: It'd be *amazing* if we would go to the furthest place in Europe and host a film festival there!

Me: <censored/>

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5dUvU-IS47/

#Hornstrandir #Iceland

My aging back approves of this idea.

I wish this came a bit more light-weight and maneuverable. (And it's rather pricey.)

I wonder who has experiences with this? (I suspect taking it to #Hornstrandir #Iceland would be peak stupid, but I do other hikes as well ...)

https://www.radicaldesign.com/wheelie-v-traveller-hd-walking-trailer-braked

#Hiking #Trekking #Backpacking

The terrain / slope / contour lines data for #Hornstrandir in #OSMAnd is still wrong.

Their support (Pro subscriber) refers me to #OpenStreetMap. OSM says "Terrain data is another data set, no can do".

According to OSMAnd's docs, this is from #ArcticDEM. Which doesn't have this artifact in their online explorer.

When I search the web on what to do, my first hit is my old post on Mastodon asking for what to do.

_rubs temples_

Sooo I bought a paper-map of the Hornstrandir/Strandir trails and not all trails there are on #OpenStreetMap, which makes route planning rather more complicated than I had hoped 🙂

Does anyone know of a repo of relevant GPX files? Or overlay maps to use with #OSMAnd?

Are the #Garmin maps any good and could possibly be imported?

(I'm fine with paid offerings if the quality is good.)

#Hornstrandir #Strandir #Iceland #Hiking

So about this vertical line in the relief/terrain map of #Hornstrandir in #Iceland on #openstreetmap.

This is an artifact and not real, right? 🤔