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To Iceland?
I've been planning my own summer vacation and wondering where to go. As I was thinking about all the places I'd most like to head, I realized that Iceland kept popping up, so I decided to poke around in some old posts about the country to see what I've written. I was reminded of a post about a piece by Mark Sundeen, who went rafting in Iceland. Sundeen, you may remember, wrote the book The Making of Toro, which made my summer reading list last this year.
In the article, Sundeen talks about the thrills and chills of riding rivers in a place that while less cold than Greenland...and more green that Greenland, is still rather cold. Face it, being close to the Arctic Circle does not make for the most promising notions of good river rafting. But as Sundeen points out, the weather is warm enough during the mid summer months that the glaciers melt and create some pretty ideal (albeit ball shrinkingly cold) rafting opportunities.
