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![Moraine ridges, Fruo.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_22a.jpg?itok=V9Vy57R6)
Fruo
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, the longest and most notable of their kind in Hordaland.
![The Eidfjord terrace as seen from Lægreid, presumably in the early 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_36.jpg?itok=_A8sZyMW)
Hæreid- geology
The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natural monument left behind by the ice when it retreated.
![Halnelægeret.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_409-2.jpg?itok=hEx5mouW)
Halne
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.
![The spotted trout](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_21.jpg?itok=LeOeyWy1)
Krækkjavassdraget
Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to be a genetic variant of brown trout. It lives in parts of the Krækkjav water system. Otherwise, on a world scale, this species is only found in a small area in Kaukasus, and possibly also in a lake in Rondane.
![Sketch showing the process of formation of an esker.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/skisse.jpg?itok=dTA78127)
![Rembesdalsskåka and the lower part of Demmevatnet, from Tresnuten. Demmevass cabin is visible to the left in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_491.jpg?itok=eg8SNPfS)
Simadalen
On the 10th of August, 1937, over half of the agricultural land in Simadalen was submerged by the river. The damage to roads and houses was also catastrophic. This was the most destructive flood ever recorded in Hordaland.
![The delta at the outflow of Storelvi in Granvinsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_1.jpg?itok=er1kEGup)
Granvinsvassdraget
After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the land after the ice melted, this whole inner part of the fjord freed itself of the sea and became Granvinsvatnet lake. In spite of this rise in elevation, this waterway is still navigable for fish: Sea trout have wandered into Granvinsvatnet in more recent times and evolved to become freshwater trout. And salmon and sea trout made the journey 13 kilometres up the Storelvi river.
![Potholes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_31.jpg?itok=W2LZyIpN)
![View in over Mostraumen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_16.jpg?itok=GnR34JLO)
Mostraumen
Until 1743 the people from Modal had to wait for a flood in MOSTRAUMEN before they could draw their boats up the river current, and then row back across Lake Movatnet. But, that year the flood opened a free passageway all the way to Mo. Hordaland had gained a new tidal waterway.
![Under the grass fields lie large quantities of sand and gravel.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_24.jpg?itok=e4ePAE19)
Nedre Helland- Sand Quarries
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,0000 tonnes of sand and gravel left the municipality each year since the turn of the millennium, to be used as cementing sand. Why is Modalen endowed with so much sand?