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Posted: 09 Aug 2022

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The 2nd Fagradalsfjall eruption at Meradalir! (03.08.-21.08.2022)

The 2nd Fagradalsfjall eruption at Meradalir! (03.08.-21.08.2022)
Just 48 hours after it started, we managed to see the new eruption site at Meradalir. The weather sadly deteriorated and fog and rain clouds rolled in. At least I managed a few shots from the site where one of the webcams stands (which all too often only shows grey pea soup): www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkiwk4I8Rdk

www.visitreykjanes.is/en/volcano-eruption/eruption-information/hiking-and-parking

We did the "easy" path via Langihryggur which was also the safest for gas pollution as the wind was blowing the fumes in the other direction.The black lava fields in the photo are from last year's eruption, in many places there's still hot lava underneath!

Tractacus, Wierd Folkersma, StoneRoad2013, jeybee68 and 54 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Spo
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Foreign tourists don't understand how vulnerable the icelandic terrain is, and I don't blame them, since it doesn't exactly look like it, whereas the locals do know only too well that if you diverge off-road, it may take 100 years before anything grows there again.
19 months ago.
 Gudrun
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Some genuinely don't know but sadly some just don't care. I do feel ashamed about compatriots who return to Iceland year after year and brag about offroad driving in the highlands....I hope they get caught;-)
19 months ago.
 Gudrun
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I just happened to be on holiday in Iceland when this one started:-) Instead of Landmannalaugar it was Fagradalsfjall for the last day of our trip. The weather could have been better but at least I saw the fire fountains!
I also watched the webcams and YT videos ever since Holuhraun which started just as I got back from my first trip to Iceland- I have been hooked ever since:-)
I'm sure you'll get the opportunity to see one of the next ones, it's only a matter of time when it will start again....
19 months ago. Edited 19 months ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
A tricky place to be here being most dangerous I would have thought. However you made it, like the other people in this shot and managed to capture the feeling of all this. Not so much a pictorial landscape more an action shot and certainly a good record. Well done.

Cheers. Herb
2 months ago.
 Gudrun
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Thank you, Herb! I feel privileged to have seen it "live"! It was perfectly safe on a ridge high above it and the wind blew the gases in the other direction. This was .a "tourist eruption", the current one at Grindavík isn't..
2 months ago.

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