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![Fossen cliff](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_11.jpg?itok=VQQxhF23)
Fossen Bratte
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by the monument on the old road and take a walk down to the bend by the waterfall that Bergen-folk call "The bridal veil". Why is there a waterfall just here?
![Gneiss.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_25.jpg?itok=1PhE0wUc)
![Soft shapes in the hard mountain.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/samnanger.jpg?itok=TBH6DVLU)
![Bordalsgjelet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_33.jpg?itok=xPd4kUeG)
Bordalsgjelet
Deep down between the stone polished phyllite bedrock in Bordalsgjelet canyon, there is a cascading river. In close cooperation with hard polishing stones, the water has carved into the bedrock for thousands of years - and is still doing so today.
![Bømoen toward the north.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_52.jpg?itok=mV3IWyRp)
![From Hamlagrøhornet one sees a division between the fertile phyllite and the naked Precambrian basement rock types in the landscape](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_55.jpg?itok=WKuDCDHt)
Hamlagrø
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversity is especially obvious. The geological conditions change much here within a short distance.
![Working with roof slates in the slate quarry at Nordheim around the year 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_29.jpg?itok=AFazwPkE)
Nordheim
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until the Voss Railway came in 1883 and woke them, like the prince in the fairytale who awakened the Sleeping Beauty."
![Lona in April](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_19.jpg?itok=cZuecxsb)
Lona
One does not need much imaginationto see that where the river bends down in Røssebotnen, there has once been a lake. The landscape tells this - more clearly than any book.
![Øvre Kvernes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_17.jpg?itok=RsNY3AA3)
Kvernes
Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre Kvernes. The quarry is a big hole in the mountainside by the cliff just east of the farm buildings.