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![Vøringsfossen waterfall and the Upper Måbødalen Valley, as seen from the viewpoint at Hotel Fossli.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_27.jpg?itok=N8nsqBs2)
Måbødalen- geology
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terrain, as well; only the view from the top is much the same as before. Vøringsfossen in summer is one of Western Norway’s biggest natural wonders. It marks the transition between the older, open part of the Sysendalen valley and the younger, narrow and winding valley of Måbødalen.
![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![Traces of the dwellings and activity in the quarry.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_464_takskifer_ulvik_2_150.jpg?itok=tTKVd-vg)
![Boys fishing from the river at Steinsdalsfossen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_42.jpg?itok=gTJySMyc)
Steinsdalsfossen
Øvsthusfossen, or Steinsdalsfossen waterfall, as it is called today, attracts tourists by the thousands, and always has done as long as there have been tourists in Norway, since the early 1800s.
![Låtefossen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_14.jpg?itok=zvGhdL2l)
Låtefossen
Låtefossen waterfall, or more correctly, waterfalls, plunge 165 metres down the mountainside, 51 of them in free fall - to the enchantment of the many tourists along the highway below. The spectacular view is mainly seen from the stage of the Storelvi river in the valley below the waterfall.
![Ringedalsfossen innermost in Skjeggedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_397-1.jpg?itok=3KoWBQlp)
![The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_27.jpg?itok=zyI9-mbt)
Kvalvikane
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kvalvikane.
![Sålesnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_20.jpg?itok=GdLshTb5)
Sålesnes
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. Kvernurdi is mentioned in a diploma in 1421, when Bård Sigurdsson at Torsnes became the owner through a settlement. Already then it must have been customary to cut millstones here.
![From Måge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_394-1.jpg?itok=hO2-z3lh)
Måge
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visible both in Krossdalen in Jondal, at Kveitno in Odda and at Måge in Ullensvang. There are many traces of steatite quarrying in Hardanger, and one of the largest fields is in the hillside above Måge.