Hofsós to Siglufjörður (60.8km): Second day of riding! We rode up to the end of the peninsula of trolls. The first half of the ride was pleasant, flat terrain and a big tailwind, but after lunch, we struggled because the gravel roads meant fighting the rollers rather than coasting up them. We stayed at Hotel Siglo, where we looked at boats in the harbor, and sat in the hot tub for an hour before dinner at the hotel restaurant.
i couldn't sleep at 4:30am, and went for a walk to photograph the sunrise |
mountains behind the town |
sunrise over the water |
town, sky, lenticular clouds |
sunrise over the harbor |
Sauðárkrókur's black sand beach at sunrise |
sunrise over a jetty |
mountains behind the town |
sunrise over water and mountains |
realistically, this is the best photo of a lenticular cloud i will ever take |
more mountains |
more black sand beach waves |
sunrise over the mountains getting redder |
sky over jetty |
more sunrise over the harbor |
a building in town |
a bird in the sunrise |
one last shot of this sunrise |
stone steps leading to nowhere, found at our hotel |
historical owners of Hotel Tindastóll |
leaving the base of the fjord, for real this time |
groove up a mountainside |
morning view across the fjord |
ooh, look at that roof |
Bill and Gina are amused by something while we wait in Hofsós |
David, Bill, and Gina, still waiting to get underway |
still not underway |
finally underway (40 minutes later, and a few km up the coast) |
i took a bunch of photos of this because the land bridge didn't make visual sense to me; i thought it must be an optical illusion |
turns out this is þórðarhöfði, an early Ice Age volcanic island which is actually attached to land |
you can walk there (we didn't) |
lake by the side of the road |
mountains by the side of the road |
much horses |
Bill, Joe, and Sarah, ready to go |
mountains |
road and mountains and cyclist |
Sarah, underway |
it's less fjord and more ocean at this point |
geothermal something something? |
one sheep |
two sheep |
water and land, possibly a sheep or two |
the road ahead along the coast |
road and mountains across an inlet (the Miklavatn?) |
houses across the inlet |
a sheep looking at the camera for once |
field and mountains |
coastal water feature |
road, houses, mountains |
closer view of that water feature |
a sheep eating lunch with its hay bale friends |
a sheep impersonating its hay bale friends |
landscape with red grasses, and also some sheep |
the group, zooming towards the interior |
mountains near our lunch stop |
Gina observes some mountains |
look what we found at our lunch stop! |
Gina and Scott investigate the trampoline |
the trampoline works! |
more trampoline experiments |
trampoline hijinks continue |
our work here is done |
the base of Miklavatn as we head back to the coast after lunch |
inland, with haybales |
a map |
the road behind us towards the interior |
the road ahead; please note gravel |
most of the group walking up the gravel road |
south view along the water, plus riders remounting their bikes |
more water view |
the tower watches us back |
riders walking their bikes away from gorgeous mountains |
snow! |
last view across Miklavatn before we head north again |
next stop, Greenland |
Sarah in front of water and mountains at a rest stop |
Varúð! (also some sheep hiding at the base of the sign) |
sheep, not hiding |
Sarah, about to see a nice ocean view over the top of this hill |
riders, descending |
red mountainside |
brown mountainside |
view south down the coast |
more sheep |
more coast |
the road ahead |
Gina and Bill walk their bikes uphill |
the road is terrible gravel, but it's real pretty here |
this is probably a troll |
mountains inland |
this road is paved! still pretty |
Joe, zooming out of a very fun curved (and paved!) downhill segment on the north coast |
sheep + arctic ocean = sheep |
the view back along the coast |
the road ahead; next stop Siglufjörður (the town) |
Scott approaching the top of a hill |
the Sauðanes household and lighthouse on the north coast |
a boat! |
a closer look at the lighthouse |
mountains |
the group, ready to finish the ride |
this is a very small troll |
looking across the end of Siglufjöorður (the fjord) |
one tunnel later, the view across the fjord again |
road down the fjord into town |
view back up the fjord |
A map! And, yes, it's accurate that you go north to reach Reykjavik. That's roads for you |
a mountain with two colors of ice |
reference unit church of Siglufjöorður |
anti-landslide posts on a mountain |
view of the harbor from our hotel window: not a great photo, but it was a great view |
view across the harbor |
for once i photographed this building because of the tree art, not the metal roof |
a brennavin sour! |
butter served on a (non-edible) rock |
seafood soup at dinner |
lamb at dinner |
creme brulee at dinner |