Today's quest was to visit Georg Thiele in Rombaksfjord where she was run aground by the Germans after the second battle of Narvik. I had received conflicting reports on how possible it was to access the site on foot, so I had tried to get a boat to take me there, but the operator bailed at the last minute. So I went to the Tourist Information Centre and asked them if it was possible to walk to the wreck - she said it was, and showed me on the map where the track was, and then looked at me and said "but it is pretty steep" with a look that suggested she thought I probably should have thought of this when I was 20 years or so younger!So I gave it a go - there is a road up to the power station which is about 600m from the wreck site, however there was a locked barrier across it with a "private road" sign about 500m before the end, so I had to walk from there. I found what looked like a track around the back of the power station heading in the right direction, but it faded pretty fast, and although I kept finding segments of track that had obviously taken some foot-traffic, none of them persisted for long, and I was bush-crashing for most of the way. Unfortunately, it was raining, and the route frequently required traversing sloping rock faces that were wet and slippery - some of which went all the way down into the fjord. After three falls, I decided that doing this by myself probably wasn't one of my better ideas, and I turned around about 100m short of the actual wreck. Unfortunately, there were always trees between me and the wreck, so the only photo I got was from the picnic area by the power station - some 600m away.
