Being in Húsafell is being in a hiker's paradise, there are so many hiking trails one can choose from! And it's even nice to hike the same trail several times since the nature and light around are constantly changing, providing us with new views and experiences.
So a few days ago Gauti and I decided to go on an evening hike on mount Bæjarfell, the highest mountain/hill of the Húsafell area (578 m). We dressed up in hats, gloves and jacket/pullover since it was a typical Icelandic summer evening: neverending light but slightly cold and windy. We climbed up the left side of the creek Bæjargil and got a nice view on the waterfall at the end of the creek.
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| Gauti taking a rest at the margin of creek Bæjargil with its beautiful waterfall. |
Bæjarfell is a rather shallow mountain once the first part along the creek is done, so we had a rather cosy hike to the top of the mountain, passing blueberry fields, big rocks and the neverending calls of the Golden Plover. When we were almost at the top and turned around we saw that we were pretty lucky with the weather: from the West clouds had started to creep into the valley covering the mountain Tunga in the North under a dense grey blanket and bringing rain to the lava field of Hallmundarhraun. Bæjarfell though remained cloudless with even some sunny spots. Once at the top we decided to head for a little highland lake East of the mountain and I completely loved the walk to the lake, watching the cloud blanket in the North coming closer and listening to the calls of the many whimbrels close to the lake. We also got a beautiful view on the upper part of creek Selgil which we hadn't seen before, there were many of shallow waterfalls on softly sloping rocks. Somehow I wished they were made of hot water, so I could slide them down onto my ass and hop into the beautiful little pools with the blue water at their feet.
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| One of the shallow waterfalls in the upper part of creek Selgil. |
And the funny thing on our way back was that we found a sheep path along the left side of Selgil and the path was trampled down so deeply into the soil by countless sheep feet that Gauti called it "the sheep's highway". Interestingly, this highway led for the most part really close to edge of sometimes steep cliffs. So my guess was that the sheep want to enjoy the beautiful view on their walk and are not scared of falling down (I was a bit sometimes, though ...).
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| Sheep's "highway" along the edge of Selgil, the clouds creeping in from the West. |
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| Gauti on the sheep highway. |
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| Majestic sheep close to its highway. |
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| Gauti at a "blue lagoon" in creek Selgil. |
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