Day 14

The north part of Sprengisandur.

Yeah, so, about that rule regarding water crossings...

This, as it happens, is just below the very tippy-top of the head of Eyjafjörður, the fjord in which Akureyri is located. One gets to this point by descending from the highland desert via a narrow road on a narrow ridge (or the side of a narrow ridge, depending) in fog for about 2-3 miles.

And then one gets to an 8-inch deep river flowing across the road from a damned waterfall (on the right). With no place to turn around and no sane way to back up any useful distance.

This water crossing was, in fact, on the map. Sort of. There was a water crossing symbol at this location, but due to the scale of the map, the single symbol actually covered twelve more water crossings of similar scale in rapid succession, and probably another twenty smaller streams up to the size of the one on F26 that made me turn around and come this way instead.

It took roughly an hour and a half to go about ten miles through this bridgeless nightmare, and another half hour to get back to Akureyri.