HAHA, correct 👍😂

the good morning "business" was successful 🙌😅

devil's staircase

haha yes, good old poop shovel 😅

@@mgrallert If you know, you know 😄

thank you!!! 😊

haha no 😅 same pack. chance of bad/cold weather is higher now, so i need all my "survival" gear 😅 and after 11 days lofoten i can carry the pack easily on the WHW...

yes, i practice my wildcamping skills! 😅

@@mgrallert I’m very envious. Enjoy my friend

​@@PaulMessnerhurry up! you can still catch up with me 😅

Haha, yes I say "lord-of-the-ringish" sometimes 😅 That camp site together with the one from day 4 was the best. Lucky with the weather! Camping on top of a mountain in bad weather is a baaaad idea 😅

Thank YOU for watching and liking it! 🙏😀

Thank you! 😀 Yes that was definitely a lifetime hike. Great weather, great landscape, great camping spots. And looking back now, even the "suffering" turned into a positive experience. It's always like that with the "suffering moments", isn't it? In the present, they suck, but in the past, they are an "experience" 😅

Let's see 😅 It will be hard to top the Lofoten landscape, it is too unique. But every trip and every hike is "special" in its own way. I definitely got hooked with that wild camping thing, it is interesting to see how I "progressed" from being a "rookie" in May (West Highland Way) to a more experienced newbie in July. I guess now I need to work on my bad weather skills 😅

The Lofoten are easy to visit by car and by doing day hikes. Basically every day of my Lofoten Crossing can be done as a day hike. Bus connection is also quite good and many hikes just start from the bus stops along the E10 main road. Accommodation can be a bit expensive in high season, so you could try sleeping in your car 😅 Winter is also a magical time in the Lofoten, but of course not so much hiking at that time. Thanks for watching! 🙏

Hey, that's great! I'm really happy if my videos help with planning! I found lots of videos when I was planning, but none of them were detailed enough. That's why I filmed so much 😀 And of course I like watching myself for hours and hours 😂 Cheers from Munich!

Hey Matthias, Great videos,watched them all you should be proud. Following you from when you met Paul messner . Great hikes RESPECT

@@frankdecleen526 Still waiting for the "collab hike" with Paul 😅 Thanks for the kind words 🙏

Hi Matthias. Did you experience a lot of condensation in your tent? Did you use a down or synthetic sleeping bag? Thanks

@@Cary-cgc98 sleeping bag was synthetic (an older mammut "ajungilak kompakt spring"). i don't have condensation problems with the "hubba hubba" tent. at least it is not "dripping wet", like some other tents. but the outer "fly" had some moisture from inside some nights: day6/7 (the night before nusfjord, i mention it in the beginning of the day7 video), day7/8 (the cold night in ramberg) and day 8/9 (but there the tent was still wet from the previous night in ramberg, so not sure if the moisture was actually from night 8/9). the "hubba hubba" is rather open at the bottom, so the air circulation is good, especially with a little bit of wind. of course in colder temperatures it means that cold wind comes in from the bottom. but so far i felt ok, even in iceland with the cold winds.

Thank you 😀 My editing team (me) is working on day 11 😁

Thanks for the insight! 👍

Enjoy!!! 😀 Let me know if you have any questions 👍

@@mgrallert Yeah, I could watch these every day. I love hiking from the warmth of my house

Haha, didn't know that I have such a relaxing voice 😂

Very hard hike, but I am already missing it... Such nice camping spots, legal, no ticks (haven't seen any), no bears 😅 The "legal" camping thing is a big plus for me, same than in Scotland. I don't really like the idea of "stealth camping", always worrying that an angry farmer kicks me out in the middle of the night... Oh and my body also "gave up" when I got home. It took a couple of weeks to recover the knee. Yesterday I ran/jogged for the first time without pain...

Danke dir! Auch dir Gratulation!😀Ich überlege schon, ob ich nächstes Jahr nochmal gehe. Ist schon irgendwie etwas besonderes...

@@mgrallert Das kann ich verstehen. Habe mich dann aber dieses Jahr (Frühjahr) für den Rob Roy Way entschieden.

@@Buszkraftowski Den muss ich mir auch mal genauer anschauen, danke für den Tipp!

@@mgrallert Gern geschehen. Führt durch sehr schöne Landschaft. Leider etwas wenig Single Trail und viel öffentliche Wege (Straßen, Waldwege etc.) Daher empfiehlt es sich meiner Meinung nach noch die Extraroute zu machen oder irgendwie selbst zu kombinieren. Ich habe eine Extratour über Comrie gemacht um das dortige ehemalige Kriegsgefangenenlager anzuschauen.

Yes it was definitely the heavy backpack. Lesson learned. I was fine with such a heavy bag on plenty of multi-day hikes before. But none of those hikes were in such a terrain than the Lofoten Crossing. I underestimated it and will do a better research on the expected terrain next time. The heavy bag caused all my problems (long days because of slow "speed", scratched legs from falling, feeling "scared" sometimes, missing the ferry...). I have an eye on the Madeira Crossing and will definitely pack lighter for that one.

So you hiked "from Vindstad to Forsfjord and up to Tennesvatnet"? That was my original plan too. That part of the Lofoten crossing is still a mystery to me. No photos, no videos, no reports. I wish I could have filmed/documented it. Do you have photos of the way up from Forsfjord? How was that trail? I camped up there at Tennesvatnet (spoiler, end of next video) and looked down that trail, but can't tell how difficult it is.

@@mgrallert yes, when I asked the ticket guy on the ferry if he would stop at Forsfjord he replied “ No! Never!”😅 The walk round to Forsfjord is partly very rough and slippy. There’s a lot of boulder hopping and it’s slow going and arduous. I think it took me 1:45 to get to Forsfjord. 2 people who got off the ferry at the same time as me were about 45 minutes slower. The section up to Tennesvatnet was steep and in parts slippy and muddy. It was slow going as well. There were some parts to scramble and a set of ladders in there too. I took photos of the views to the fjords but none of the terrain. I’d compare the terrain on this section to the descent to Olderfjorden on the Svolvær - Kleppstad section.

@@dantkr "boulder hopping", "slippy and muddy", "scramble" and "ladders" sounds like another fun day of the lofoten crossing 😅I am glad about my decision then, because it started raining around 3pm. So that whole section would have been even more muddy and maybe risky for me. There was a comment somewhere (not on youtube) about "don't do it in wet weather".

Ahaha, those are your sun glasses?? That's so cool 😁 That hike is from 25th of July. Seems your glasses are part of the mountain now 😅

Thank you for the nice comment. Great to see that people enjoy the videos 😀

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That camp spot was epic! Very happy that the footage turned out well. "Aromavision" has to be the next big thing!!! 😂

Ah, another "good weather camper", same here 😁

Thank you 🙏😀

Hi! We had a walking guide book and it showed the 3 hikes: www.rother.de/de/iceland.html We realised we could simply connect them to 1 hike. The "Brennisteinsalda Bláhnúkur loop" is quite popular, you find a lot of information about it: epiciceland.net/landmannalaugar-1-day-hike-guide/#3_Brennisteinsalda_Blahnukur_loop The "Suðurnámur hike" is a bit less popular, but it is also easy to find information: thephotohikes.com/the-sudurnamur-hike-landmannalaugar

@@mgrallert Thank you! 🙏🏼

Haha, thanks for suffering with me 😅

"MSR Hubba Hubba NX2". I have seen it on many campsites, so it is pretty common. I bought it for Iceland/Laugavegur because I was looking for something "doesn't die in strong winds". So far I couldn't test if it survives in a storm, because I was so lucky with the weather on my recent trips. It is a 2 person tent obviously. I don't want a 1 person tent, because I want my backpack to be inside and the bag is so big that it IS a second person...😂 Before that tent I used the "Vaude Hogan UL Argon 1-2P", which is a "1.5 person tent". I used it in Patagonia (no video) and Kungsleden (video on my channel). I never slept well in it because it felt too small, I had to "spoon" with my backpack... So... at the moment I am happy with my "Hubba Hubba" and I am not planning to change it. I don't see a lighter/smaller tent that is really "safe" and big enough for me.

@@mgrallert yes i recently had struggle with a 1 P tent...they can be really small..thanks for the quick answer

PS: I don't like the inside red color, I wish it was more camouflaged. Not so good for "stealth camping"...

@@SimonFoschinho really depends on the "level of comfort" you want to have. when people see my giant backpack they always say "buy a lighter tent". yes, I could safe some grams with a smaller tent, but I would also sleep much more miserable. I am 52 years old now, the sleeping focus changed to "recovery". when I was 20 or 30 recovery wasn't that important.

Don't thank me. Start planning a trip there! I can hear that you want it 😉

It is very beautiful, also in winter 😀

yay, enjoy the hike!!! 🤩👍👍

Yayyy, I heard you! 😀 Same than you I have visited Lofoten in winter a couple of years ago, also Nusfjord. At that time I already told myself "hey you have to come back in summer in order to do some hikes!"... I think I went there in March and I remember that Nusfjord was super crowded when I visited (in the afternoon probably). It was way less crowded early morning of my day 7, so stay tuned and wait for that video 😁

thank you 👍 what a great hike it was! 🤩

HAHA, I was hoping for an Italian viewer to comment on that 😂 I would never eat such a thing, sometimes I don't know where these "weird thoughts" come from, it is all unscripted and spontaneous. I think the brain starts craving for extreme things when you are in a calorie deficit, like a diet or in this case a strenuous hike. In real life I very rarely eat a burger or fried stuff. But I LOVE pizza (anchovies and capers, mhmmm)... 🍕

I get it! I had some weird food related thoughts myself recently on the West Highland Way, which led me to eat chocolate and crisps together… strangely very good! 😅 Thanks for your videos on that walk, I enjoyed them very much!

Thanks Paul! Yes I absolutely recommend the Lofoten, in summer and also in winter. Well in winter it is less hiking, more looking at the landscape 😅 Looking forward to the upcoming "Paul vs Lofoten" series 😁

Thank you! 🙏 I don't know why I was talking so much about that taxi 😅

and he got an award for it!

the toilet was great! just not in sync with my bowels 😅

thank you very much appreciated 😀

Thank you! Yes for the video footage it is great to have such good weather. And for sure also important for the mind: if you suffer going uphill for hours, the good view is the reward! So in bad weather it takes some more "motivation skills", like I tried on day 2 when the weather sucked. I cannot imagine how much tougher this day would have been in bad weather. For me every day was hard and difficult. But that is just my personal rating, with a 20kg backpack and age over 50.

I use a Gopro Hero12. After experimenting a bit with the settings I now have it on "HDR" with "natural colors" and "medium" sharpness and "auto" whitebalance. It is a "fake HDR", Gopro does it somehow with software. I think very often the "Standard" mode is just fine. Also the "auto" whitebalance jumps around a lot, but as I am lazy I just pretend I don't see that 😅 In editing I sometimes "fix" whitebalance that looks too extreme to me. Also most of the time have to brighten up the footage, as Gopro likes to underexpose it. Which is a good thing though, better under- than overexpose. Gopro and all other actioncameras are tiny cameras with tiny sensors, so you always have to accept that it doesn't look like fullframe camera footage.

@@mgrallert 👌, I work with the hero 11 . Never can seam to get it quite right , but also Living in North of Ireland we don’t get great sunlight here 🙈

@@adventurousdavee The hero 11 and hero 12 should be nearly identical, from what I've read. Just the firmware had some upgrades, adding for example "hdr" and "gp-log", which is pure software/firmware and no hardware upgrade (if I researched that correct). I had the hero 10 before, so upgrading to the 12 gave me at least upgraded hardware. I was first excited about the "gp-log" but then disappointed after really using it. With my rather looong videos it took ages to edit, so I now switched to mostly "auto" settings which safes me so much time. I think your footage looks the same than mine, I can't tell much difference. However, for a real comparision we would have to export it from the same editing software with the same settings. I edit and export my 5.3videos in premiere pro as 4k, so downsizes a little bit. Then I export in the highest possible quality (based on what premierepro recommends as best youtube-4k-settings) which took 12hours for this video and resulted in a 15GB file (lol). The export runs a whole night for most of my videos. But my notebook isnt really the fastest anymore. It slowed down a lot with the 5.3 footage, it seems my graphics card cant decode it properly and so it has to be done with cpu/software which is much slower.... phew... should start a tech channel or a reaction channel, haha...

@@mgrallert you should start a tech channel 👌. I think my problem is the free editing software i use :-( . Still trying to figure it out lol

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Hi! Yes it is all paid camping. Here is a good overview: laugavegurtrailguide.com/laugavegur-camping-guide/ I think the prices are a bit higher now, I think 2800 kr/person/night for the FÍ huts: www.fi.is/en/mountain-huts/terms-and-conditions The Volcano Huts Campground always costs a bit more, because it is not operated by FÍ. As a camper you are not allowed to go inside and use the kitchen of the hut. For campers there is usually a separated outside area for water/dishes. At some places you have to pay extra for a shower.

@@mgrallert thank you very much for the suggestion 😉🤗!!!!

Thank you! And welcome! 😀👍

Hi! No there was nothing dangerous on the ridge to Matmora. The path stays away from that rocky side. If you know normal mountain trails, then this is normal too 😀

Thank you! It was definitely tougher than the WHW. So wayyyy more out of my comfort zone. I will talk more about that later in the videos. Editing day 4 right now, almost finished, it has a BEAUTIFUL wildcamping spot at the end...