The first day of summer was celebrated all over the country yesterday according to tradition. However, summer is not yet a distant memory on Dynjandisheiði mountain road in the Westfjords as these pictures, taken by Vegagerðin employee Sigurður Guðumundur Sverrisson, bare witness.
Employees at Vegagerðin, The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration, have been hard at work over the past weeks trying to clear mountain roads of snow. A huge 9 metre (30 feet) high snow wall still lines part of the Dynjandisheiði road and is unlikely to disappear until late summer.
“It has been slow going. We had already cleared most of the snow before Easter, but the roads filled up again because of the bad weather spell during the Easter long weekend,” Guðmundur Björgvinsson, supervisor with Vegagerðin in Ísafjörður in Westfjords, said in an interview with Morgunblaðið newspaper.
Dynjandisheiði and Hrafnseyrar mountain roads are accessible to cars with 4×4.
The first day of summer was celebrated all over the country yesterday according to tradition. However, summer is not yet a distant memory on Dynjandisheiði mountain road in the Westfjords as these pictures, taken by Vegagerðin employee Sigurður Guðumundur Sverrisson, bare witness.
Employees at Vegagerðin, The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration, have been hard at work over the past weeks trying to clear mountain roads of snow. A huge 9 metre (30 feet) high snow wall still lines part of the Dynjandisheiði road and is unlikely to disappear until late summer.
“It has been slow going. We had already cleared most of the snow before Easter, but the roads filled up again because of the bad weather spell during the Easter long weekend,” Guðmundur Björgvinsson, supervisor with Vegagerðin in Ísafjörður in Westfjords, said in an interview with Morgunblaðið newspaper.
Dynjandisheiði and Hrafnseyrar mountain roads are accessible to cars with 4×4.
