March 23-It warmed up "dramatically" today. By that I mean that it got up to near 50 degrees Fahrenheit. That may not seem like much, but for a climate under a heavy maritime influence, that is a fairly significant increase from the temperatures in the 30s that we have had the past few weeks. It did not go unnoticed by our neighbors. They hung around outside in the afternoon talking to one another and started to pull bikes out of winter storage. Some even stayed outside to watch their children play on the rapidly dwindling piles of snow and in the rivulets of meltwater.
We decided to go for a hike up Grábrók, which is the volcanic crater just to the north of the Bifröst campus. Shan did this hike a couple months ago with the gönguklúbbur but had not been back on top since then. There was not much snow on the trail, so the hike was pretty quick. The sky had mostly cleared, so we got some nice views of the Norðurádalur around Bifröst.
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| Inside the crater of Grábrók. |
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| Ruins of a sheep-sorting corrals north of Grábrók. |
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| Bifröst campus and Lake Hreðavatn south of Grábrók. |
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| Hraunsnef mountain to the north of Grábrók. |
After working up an appetite on the hike, we got in the car and drove a few kilometers up the valley to the farm/hotel/restaurant of Hraunsnef for supper. This is the place that Sally's knitting club meets every other Wednesday. We got to see some of the handiwork items that the club's members had made and sell in the restaurant. We had burgers, pizza, and a wrap and it was all delicious. About the time we started eating, the place really began to fill up. So long as we eat before 7pm, we have generally beat the supper rush over here. That may well change as summer approaches and the tourist season begins.
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