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Day 4. Monday 11th of July: Kiðagil a day of rest

I called the road authorities this morning they have not finished clearing the snow of the northern part of the Sprengisandur route (which they had intended to do this weekend). They sent the snow plows up today (they went past our hotel this morning on the way up to the highlands). We therefore decided to wait one day here so we would not need to cross long snow banks on our bikes.  We will continue our biking tomorrow.  I will upload some pictures today from our travel across Kjölur. I had decided to bike to Nýjadal in two days but will do it in three since we need to bike from the hotel some 25 km to the starting point and we are making a climb of 800 meters the first day. If the road is rough then that will take some time. One always has to allow for time to tent and cook before the nights rest.  Since the phone concection is not as good as I had hoped up in the mountains I am not sure when I will be able to post my next blog. But eventually they will all make it.

Day 3. Saunday 10th of July: Hveravellir – Áfangi

We woke up early at Hveravellir after a difficult night at the loft of a poorly ventilated hut with other tourist (which I apparently kept awake the entire night with my snoring. I am told by others that I snore but I have never heard myself doing that). I needed to do some repairs to my bike before we left which we did at 10:30. The road was much better and the weather was fantastic. Seldom have I traveled Kjol in clear weather like we had today. We decided to have our rendezvous with our transport team at Afangar (which is some 20 km short of finishing the official F35 route which would have been on a smooth road downhill) but this was of necessity since we needed to be at Kidagil in Bardardal NE – Iceland  before 23:00.   I and Gudjon did however have time to go to the hot tub while we waited for the transport (they went past the meeting point and had to backtrack). We could have biked those 20 km while we waited for them.   The statistics for the day.  We were moving for 3h and 47m rested for 1h 37m and maintained an averages speed of 10 km/h for theseclose to 40 km that we biked.