You captured my dad and I in this video, I'm in white and he's in orange at 3:17 and 3:30, along with the same clip at the very beginning. We actually watched your video when we were still in Iceland, as you posted it only a day or two after the day you filmed it. We were trying to figure out a way to get to the western side of the volcano, so we were watching all the videos people were making about visiting the volcano that we saw. You can imagine our surprise when we saw ourselves! Got a fun kick out of it, and this video just popped back up on my feed today and it made me smile to see us back there! We were a little disappointed about how far we were from the volcano that day, and with the conditions constantly changing and paths being closed we were hoping to make it back on the western trail but we would be content with what we had already seen if it didn't work out. I'm happy to report that we were able to go to the western side a few days later and got a spectacular view at night!
Haha no way! Thats awesome. I have sometimes wondered if people who are in my shot ever see my videos. I guess I have the answer now. I wen't to the western side a few days later too. Perhaps we met again?
We had a great hike up from Parking Lot 2 this past Saturday. About 11 miles round trip. Well worth it. Awesome videos of dirt devils as well as tourists being chased away from lava by safety people. Lots of people on electric bikes. Many people too late arriving to get back before the 6pm closing time.
I'm really leasing an updated video for route A hopefully tonight. That's P1, for this route its P4. If you are good hikers I recommend route A. You'll see tonight.
It looked like a looong route indeed. Can you imagine the first time it erupted, we walked all the way from the Blue Lagoon through the lava fields and very steep hills?! It was hell! 24 km in total. But it was soooo worth it! Thankfully they improved the paths quickly and the distances became shorter. This new path looks quite decent already, but it's a long distance for sure. A bit sad that you couldn't get closer. During the first eruption, we were probably within 100 meters from the crater. It was totally insane!
@@TimeWarpIceland Yeah it was quite cold, but not freezing. My biggest toe nail got completely red and it took 6 months to recover, haha. But honestly, I had really bad shoes and the guards warned me about it at the parking lot. But I didn't have any better shoes.
Thanks for the video. Your drone seems pretty smart - it didn't want to get too close, so found its way back to you. Go soak in a hot tub and drink some beer!
You better believe that's what I did when I got home. Exactly that and I'm not kidding. I even had the foresight to have the hot tub ready for when I got home. 😅
I guess I got lucky. I spent 3 days sleeping my my Jimny in Grindavik waiting for the trail to open. On my way to the airport to come home empty handed they finally opened the trail. Delayed my return flight and off to the trail! I'm used to rocky trails so that wasn't an issue. I also was bummed about how far they were keeping everyone. However, at around 1am that night the security and police just left. A few hundred of us were then able to get closer. I spent a total of 16 hours on the trail. It was one of the most epic adventures I've been on, and that's saying something. Without the volcano and the lava river, yes it was miserable. That wind and dust was awful! However, witnessing that powerful display by God, it made it all worth it. Next time, I think I'll rent an ebike with fat tires.
And THAT'S WHY you SHOULD NOT buy DJI - every government on the planet can control it, legally or not, justified or not. They cut of your filming more than often, than they have the right to do so.
This wasn't my first rodeo. I went at night to the first one. Definitely awesome. Unfortunately, now it doesn't get dark out till very late and they close the paths at 6pm. So I would need to go up there and stay for hours.
Please stop with the cracking on Americans 😔 I don't ever hear any of us cracking on you and your system. You don't get why we use it and we don't get why you use yours.. But no sense in being rude and cracking on us for it. I gave a thumbs up until you said that....
Well actually, this cracking goes both ways. It is about as non offensive a jab as they get and about as old as the systems them selves. I try to include both units as much as I can. Sometimes it becomes repetitive to a point of it being something that is OK to point out in a humorous way to break the repetitiveness. And I absolutely mean no disrespect by it.
But I do appreciate you leaving a comment explainimg why you gave thumbs down. I get one or two every video and I never know why. Hard to improve in the future when the only feedback you get is a thumb down.
