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With Backpack And Tent To The Partisan Cave

In summer 2021 I undertook a four weeks tent journey in the area around the fishing village Båtsfjord at the Arctic Sea coast in Northern Norway. My first target was the partisan cave in Tømmervika. During World War II two Norwegians and one Russian had spent the winter there and sent messages about passing German war ships to Russia. They didn't even light up a bon fire, because they desparately wanted to avoid to be detected. To get there, one has first to get up from Båtsfjord to the wind park on Rubbedalshøgda, and then through a pathless stone desert to the other side of the peninsula.
Thundery Clouds Over Båtsfjord
Here begins the ascent to Rubbedalshøgda
Stone desert in the inner part of the peninsula
Lake at Vestre Rubbedalen on the other side of the peninsula
The same lake next morning
Following the Vestre Rubbedalselva down to the coast
How will the descent be after this curve?
Exposed spot above the ravine
First view on Tømmervika
The river becomes now a waterfall
Below the river is tame again
Tømmervika is named after this driftwood
The Partisan cave is 40 meter above the coast
The Partisans sat on these planks deep inside the cave
View from the inside of the cave
Walk along the coast
Some water allows the plants to grow
The waves break at the rocks
My tent awaits me in the evening sun
Way back along the power line in fog