Iceland waterfall hucking!

This summer I spend a great week in Iceland with the 3 most bad ass chicks! We had a perfect team, with Mariann Saether being the sickest team leader, the legendary waterfall hucker Shannon Carroll, rowdy Katrina van Wijk and me.

I flew in on Friday night and got picked up by Katrina. The next morning we met up with our crazy French Film crew and took the 1 up north to Godafoss – a 12m waterfall over a width of 30 meters.

 

After a 5hr+ car drive we were fired up to get on the water and to ran our first Icelandic waterfall. We got a bit slowed down by our film crew, setting up the camera in between the high number of tourists. 
On my second run I broke my paddle and ended up with two massive carbon splinters, which went all the way through the tip of my finger. The ladies hit the fun right line, keeping the middle line for the next day.

After an amazing sleep we geared up again for our second session on the Godafoss waterfall. Once the frenchies had enough footage we continued down the river were another rowdy rapid/waterfall was.

In the evening Mariann took us to secret hot pools, which was incredible!!

On the third day Mariann and Shannon hit up a rowdy drop with a crazy lip on the entrance!

After the third day the frenchies left and we continued our road trip around Iceland. Our next stop was Aldeyjarfoss, a perfect but very powerful waterfall! We had heard a lot of stories of people getting hurt by just the impact off this waterfall, with an injury count of 3/5. Shannon was super fired up to give it a go. Unfortunately we were running out of time and Shannon had to let it go and come back next year!

Unfortunately the water was super low on the east coast of the island, leaving us unable to paddle the sick river runs around! On our way we met up with a super friendly local family giving us the latest updates about the rivers.

Iceland is beautiful it is real bare, there is still lots of snow and the massive glaciers are incredible! We stopped on the south coast to paddle between the massive icebergs, which was a lot sketchier then we thought.

We have done a lot of sightseeing and watched so many waterfalls! Unfortunately most of them had not enough water, which forces us to come back to Iceland next year! We also experienced the geo-thermal activity by visiting an impressive geyser, mud pools and enjoying the hot springs!

On our second last day we headed up to Thief Falls, which was low but good to go. Mariann and Shannon hit up the left line ending up with two swims and a broken paddle. Katrina and I took the middle line. It was crazy how many flies there were that day! Almost unbearable!

Iceland has been serving up some goods in our kayaks! Stoked to be paddling with these rad chicks!