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Hallingskeid

Hallingskeid

27.05.2018 - 15:48

Hallstatt sword

Seberg

13.03.2018 - 21:03

The mountainside in Sysendalen

Sysendalen

30.11.2018 - 10:35

If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on its way back up again.

On the trail toward Kyrkjedøri, a half hour walk from Finse station, we find these small ridges

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

04.12.2018 - 15:04

Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended up on the roofs of Norway. Also the thrust sheet from the continental collision has found its way to Finse, after a several hundred kilometre-long, trek through the mountains, that took several tens of millions of years to complete.

Fossil scree

Buadalsbrotet

12.03.2019 - 15:21

The man from Holmefjord

Holmefjord

06.12.2018 - 16:28

Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are a few.

Vinnesholmen, Fusa

Vinnesholmen

21.11.2018 - 19:25

Hammarsland, Fusa

Hammarsland

30.03.2018 - 08:42

Mjånes, Fusa

Mjånes

16.06.2018 - 14:06

Halnelægeret.

Halne

26.05.2018 - 11:25

At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle drovers stopped here in the summer; they were the cowboys of their time. But Halnelægeret already had a long history before the cattle drovers came.

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