12-August 2021 to 21-August 2021: I would still take my time trying to soak in the spectacle while always giving into the temptation to somehow capture what I was seeing with my naked eye in photograph and video form.

Really, it’s hard to convey that awesome feeling that I was witnessing something special, and there were hundreds (maybe thousands) of other people that have made this hike up to the ridge to do the same.

However, as much as I wanted to linger here and watch the scene as the day would get darker, it wouldn’t properly get dark until at least after 9:30pm, and well, it was about 7:50pm when I finally decided to go back down to the ladies so I wouldn’t keep them there waiting in the wind chill…

…Once we geared up again for the return hike, we were all struggling because all of us needed to empty our bladders, but there was absolutely no place to do that with any privacy throughout this hike…

• Day 9 (August 12, 2021 – Laugar, Iceland): “Global Warming Growth”
• Day 10 (August 13, 2021 – Laugar, Iceland): “Compare And Contrast”
• Day 11 (August 14, 2021 – Siglufjordur, Iceland): “Boom And Bust”
• Day 12 (August 15, 2021 – Hof i Vatnsdalur, Iceland): “One Such Moment”
• Day 13 (August 16, 2021 – Hof i Vatnsdalur, Iceland): “Life As A Local”
• Day 14 (August 17, 2021 – Olafsvik, Iceland): “Stubborn Clouds”
• Day 15 (August 18, 2021 – Reykjavik, Iceland): “Going Full Circle”
• Day 16 (August 19, 2021 – Reykjavik, Iceland): “Carpe Diem”
• Day 17 (August 20, 2021 – Reykjavik, Iceland): “Cleaning Up”
• Day 18 (August 21, 2021 – Los Angeles, California, USA): “The Last Hurrah”

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