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Jeanne standing at the rim of a canyon at sunset, looking out at Háifoss waterfall in Iceland

Iceland · Ring Road · June 2027

The whole island,
on foot.

942 miles of Iceland's Route 1, plus the detours worth taking. Sixty days. One woman, age fifty, walking every step of it.

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Departs Jun 25, 2027 · Reykjavík City Hall

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942
miles, official route
60
days planned
0
women recorded
50
years old at the start

The journey

To date the official FKT Ring Road Route has never been completed by a woman.

The Fastest Known Time route for Iceland's Ring Road is a 942-mile loop that starts and ends at Reykjavík City Hall and follows Route 1 around the whole country, leaving the road only to walk around three tunnels that are closed to pedestrians. As of September 2026, the route's record page lists a single recorded completion, by a man, and no women's time at all.

On June 25, 2027, Jeanne Cyree sets out clockwise from City Hall to put the first woman's name on that page. Her plan follows the official track and adds detours to the places worth seeing, which brings her own walk closer to 940 miles. Not racing. A pace that lasts two months, with rest days built in and weather days accepted.

Highlights

  • Goðafoss, Mývatn and the Hverir geothermal field
  • The Möðrudalur highlands, the emptiest stretch on the loop
  • Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon and Diamond Beach
  • Skaftafell, Skógafoss and the south-coast waterfalls

Day by day

  1. 01
    ReykjavíkLeave City Hall heading north up Hvalfjörður.
  2. 16
    AkureyriFirst big resupply. Two nights, pool, gear repair.
  3. 20
    MývatnLast grocery for five days. Into the highlands.
  4. 28
    East FjordsReyðarfjörður to Djúpivogur, fjord by fjord.
  5. 40
    JökulsárlónThe glacier day. Film everything.
  6. 46
    VíkThirty kilometres of black sand, then the church on the hill.
  7. 53
    ReykjavíkBack to City Hall. Same spot, 1,500 km later.

Why now

Fifty is not the end of anything.

Jeanne turns fifty in January 2027. For a lot of people that birthday arrives with a quiet message that the big adventures are behind them, that the body has had its say, that the job now is to look after what's already been built.

She doesn't believe it, and she wants to prove it in a way nobody can argue with: sixty days on foot around an entire country, at the age when people are told to slow down. Not to set a speed record. To show that a body that is looked after can still do enormous things, and that the decade most people write off can be the one where the biggest thing you've ever done begins.

If you're forty, or fifty, or sixty, and there's a trip you've been telling yourself you missed the window for, this walk is for you. The window is still open. It's a matter of putting one foot in front of the other and not stopping.

Skógafoss from the clifftop with a rainbow in the spray

Along the route

Sixty days, clockwise.

Jeanne's own photographs from Iceland. Some of these sit right on the road; others are a detour she has already decided is worth the miles.

Háifoss waterfall dropping into a canyon at sunset
South · detourHáifossOne of Iceland's tallest falls. Jeanne has already walked it at sunset.
Seljalandsfoss seen from the cave behind the water
Day 48SeljalandsfossThe path goes behind the water. Eyjafjallajökull overhead.
A double rainbow in the spray at the base of Skógafoss
Day 47SkógafossCamp is at the foot of the falls. The rainbow is a regular.
A waterfall seen from inside a mossy cave
Day 47 · detourKvernufossA short walk from Skógar and almost nobody goes.
Black sand beach with the red-roofed church of Vík behind
Day 46VíkThirty kilometres of black sand, then the church on the hill.
Jeanne sitting on the wreck of a DC-3 aircraft on black sand
Day 47 · detourSólheimasandurThe 1973 plane wreck, four kilometres out across the sand.
Clear chunks of glacier ice on black sand with a glacier behind
Day 40Diamond BeachGlacier ice washed back onto the sand from the lagoon.
Icebergs in a glacier lagoon with snow-covered mountains behind
Day 40JökulsárlónThe hardest lodging gap on the loop and the day she most wants to film.
Two eider ducks on a gravel bar in front of icebergs at dusk
MidsummerDusk at the lagoonIn late June the sun barely sets.
An Atlantic puffin standing in tall grass
South coastCompanyPuffins on the cliffs until mid-August, right through the walk.
Long grass in low orange sunset light
Most daysFarm countryLong, quiet, and full of farms where she'll ask to pitch a tent.

Partners

What the walk needs

Sixty days on the road takes a support vehicle, a driver, fuel, food, a place to sleep on the nights there is no campsite, and the gear and cameras to bring the whole thing home. Wyld Paths is looking for partners to supply pieces of that in exchange for two months of daily, on-the-ground content from every region of Iceland.

Partners get their name on the expedition, on this site, and in every dispatch.

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Trips

Travel with Wyld Paths

The Ring Road walk is the big one, but Wyld Paths also plans trips for people who want to see places properly and on their own two feet. Small groups, real hikes, and someone who has already stood in the ice cave and knows which guesthouse to book.

The Virgin River flowing through the Narrows in Zion National Park Zion · The NarrowsBottom-up walk of the Narrows · small group · 2027 Iceland · South CoastWaterfalls, ice caves and black sand · after the expedition
Jeanne sitting on the wreck of a DC-3 aircraft on the black sand at Sólheimasandur

The walker

Jeanne Cyree

Jeanne is an athlete from the Texas Hill Country. She started Wyld Paths to give other people the kind of experiences she has been chasing for years, on foot, in places like Iceland's south coast, the Faroe Islands, the Colorado Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. She turns fifty in January 2027.

The Ring Road walk is her answer to a simple question: what does the whole country look like at three miles an hour?