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Crossing Iceland by Landcruisers in Winter

mherbert

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Just returned after crossing Iceland in winter including crossing Europes largest Icecap Vatnajokull. We were a part of 12 driving 4 LC120's with the smallest a 38" tyred car that actually has been to the magnetic north pole with top gear...it was their support vehicle, also we had one 44" and two 46" equiped vehicles.

The plan was to drive north to Myvatn a Geothermal area in the North East, then drive to almost the centre of Iceland to Askja a 50 km2 volcano which is still active, then across Vatnajokull staying at a cabin in the middle at Grimsfjall then drive south on to Reykjavik.

So we were really well equiped though it was a struggle, and crawler gears were a must. We were down to about 1 psi on the larger tyres, some of the time. However we had mostly good weather, and many good northern light displays. On the top of the icecap it was blowing a lot, up to 20 - 25 m/s and the temperature was -25C so we had to leave the trucks running overnight, when we stayed at the Grimsfjall which is on the edge of an active volcano in the middle of the icecap. An amazing and surreal place.

We managed tp complete the trip without too many mishaps.

We drove about 2500 Km from sea level up to 1730 metres up on the icecap

I have put some more photos on my web page http://www.dreki.no also there is a link to Arctic Trucks Experience

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A few more photos of the trucks:)

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Some excellent photos.
The 120 cruisers look big time business machines

G.
 
Splendid pictures MH - the 120 does look fabulous in artic truck mode :mrgreen:
 
I like the verticaly challenged affect in the 9th picture up, or is that really a very small person and the truck is normal sized :lol:
 
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