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![From Ingahogg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvinnherad.jpg?itok=dmrfeaRp)
Ingahogg
At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, according to the Sagas, that Inga collected the big soapstone that lies in front of the Åkra Church from here.
![Blood-red geranium](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_24.jpg?itok=b63Z_duB)
![Old pine forest (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_31_0.jpg?itok=MQkkp4J8)
![Norwegian Sagebrush](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/jondal_3.jpg?itok=fj-tqk5a)
Jonstein
When high school student Arne Handegard collected plants for a herbarium in 1962, he didn’t know what kind of rarity he had pressed into his notebook. 30 years later he attended a botanical lecture, where a picture was shown of a plant he recognized: “Norwegian Sagebrush, which in Norway is only found in a large area of Dovre and in Trollheimen, and in a little area in Ry county”. Arne Handegard raised his hand: “That plant grows on Mt. Jonstein in Jondal”.
![Part of the Yddal nature preserve seen from the air.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fusa_17.jpg?itok=zg9HUkfS)
Yddal
Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement of Yddal. Up until about the 1950s, there were three farms here. Where the lumberjacks couldn't get to, the trees grew very big and can be over 300 years old.
![The contrast between phyllite and Precambrian basement is clearly visible at Lussand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_27.jpg?itok=knbu7uIk)
Lussand- geology
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjord – dei krokar og buktar seg innover meir eller mindre vinkelrett på kysten. Hardangerfjordens utforming har røter 400 millionar år tilbake i tida, då den veike sona i fjellet, der isen seinare tok grådig for seg, vart danna. Denne sona stig på land ved Lussand.
![In the background Nordrenut and Vesle Finsenuten, from the south-east.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_3.jpg?itok=nFVp8uAU)
Finse
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete with the higher-growing plants living there. Most mountain plants manage to compete for light and space only if they cling to the bedrock and gravel in the harsh high alpine climate.
![Stone quarry in Kollevågen, 1922](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_21.jpg?itok=Xnws-T7D)
![Slåttene](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_14.jpg?itok=TPx2vADn)
![Curvy scours in the bedrock (](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_23.jpg?itok=fisI_JUk)
Golta- Gneiss
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and make it dangerous to walk along the shoreline. When the storms have calmed, the results of their work comes into view.