Today, I was finally able to walk around Reykjavik without too much discomfort. I started having twinges of pain in my from right ankle at the 48-50 mile mark of the first day of my run across Iceland--somewhere north of Þingvellir on Uxahryggjavegur. I hoped, of course, that it would subside by morning, but the ankle still hurt. … Continue reading Resilience and Rebound
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Dispatches for Iceland #6: Wesfjords Reflections & Recovery
It has been one week since I completed my run across Iceland to bring attention to climate resilience, and I've spent much of that time recovering, replenishing calories with seafood, lamb, and skyr, and taking some tentative and recuperative steps on the trails, snowfields, and beaches around Isafjordur and Flateyri here in the Westfjords. The Climate Run was easily the … Continue reading Dispatches for Iceland #6: Wesfjords Reflections & Recovery
Dispatches from Iceland #3: Training Days
This weekend is Hatið Hafsins in Reykjavik, the Festival of the Sea, which Orion and I spent visiting ships, looking for puffins, and generally being caught up in maritime merriment. Yesterday, however, we went to Rauðavatn, a lake just inside the Reykjavik city limits that has some great trails--although no map that we could find, so … Continue reading Dispatches from Iceland #3: Training Days
Dispatches from Iceland #1: We are an expression of forces
We've finally arrived in Iceland and settled into an Airbnb apartment in Seltjarnarnes, a few minutes from the city center. It already seems as though we've been gone from Vermont for many weeks, although it's only been just nine days of travel, training, work, and food (!) in Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. A tour of Scandinavia … Continue reading Dispatches from Iceland #1: We are an expression of forces
Why Climate Change Matters in Iceland
The Icelandic landscape has long held a fascination for me--from my first visit to Reykjavik in the 1970s when I was a young boy through the field course I taught there in 2007. It is a place where the land is most often laid bare, and geologic history is written (and volcanically rewritten) on even the … Continue reading Why Climate Change Matters in Iceland
still winter in the mountains
A few miles on the slopes of Mount Mansfield yesterday evening...
58 days left . . . & I need your help!
There are 58 days left before I start off on my trans-Icelandic run! Spring has finally arrived -- our long (long) winter's snows are receding into the shadows as the streams and rivers swell and crocuses unfurl in the warming sun. Soon, Orion and I will be setting off on our adventure in Scandinavia--from Bergen to … Continue reading 58 days left . . . & I need your help!
Kjölur Run Goes International!
The Kjölur Run project has made international news in the Nov. 24th issue of Iceland's largest newspaper, Fréttablaðið! Translated, with more than a little help from Google: Kjölur Run Environmental Advocate Wants to Draw Attention to Global Warming and Raise Scholarships. "I've been teaching and learning about the environment for 20 years. I wanted … Continue reading Kjölur Run Goes International!
Climate Run 