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The eruption started two weeks ago, while I was at a Tango Marathon, but last WE I made it to Skogar from where a long hike awaits. I arrived in the evening, around 8pm, so everybody was going down, not up. As I was hiking up, people’s reaction was either of the four:

• Ignore me (some people really looked as if they were in real pain)
• Looked at me as if I was mad (but took the opportunity to ask me how long I had been walking to find out how long they still had to reach the bottom)
• Smiled and said hello, judging by the huge rucksack I was carrying and the trip hanging outside they knew I wasn’t some crazy tourist
• Warned me and gave me advice

No doubt they added up to hundreds. I knew there would be a lot of people during the day but I didn’t expect to find so many in the evening.

4am - the red smoke coming from the volcano guiding me

I took a break after 2 hours and slept (or tried to sleep) for a few hours and started to hike again around 3am. “Sleeping” under the stars, with the almost full moon, the red smoke of the Volcano and the Northen Lights was a treat, even though the cold wind made it a little demanding.

I left the path and headed East to avoid the smoke and reached the the Volcano just after witnessing a sublime sunrise.

Getting to the Volcano just after sunrise

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