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![Burial mounds at Hæreid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/haegreid.jpg?itok=LEb0sJkP)
Hæreid- archaeology
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie, the mounds and stone piles, on their own or in clusters, large and small, round and elongated – at least 350 in all.
![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.
![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 mountainside in Sysendalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_28.jpg?itok=aOUhxIsm)
Sysendalen
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.
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)
![The soil tongues below Jomfrunuten.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_36.jpg?itok=aOfkkEth)
Jomfrunuten
Freezing and thawing are processes that influence plant cover, move enormous blocks, stretche long mounds of earth, break open bedrock and create patterns in stone and earth.
![Hallstatt sword](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-2x.jpg?itok=4HquQz9B)
![Solskinstjørni](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_43.jpg?itok=hNZOK4_6)
Solskinstjørni
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disappears abruptly, but its disappearance is not connected to weather conditions.
![On the trail toward Kyrkjedøri, a half hour walk from Finse station, we find these small ridges](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_12.jpg?itok=gpoawGzE)
Trail toward Kyrkjedøri
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.