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![Vøringsfossen waterfall and the Upper Måbødalen Valley, as seen from the viewpoint at Hotel Fossli.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_27.jpg?itok=N8nsqBs2)
Måbødalen- geology
The old pack road had 1500 steps, where cars today gas through the mountain. The time of this hard work is over, and of getting used to the steep terrain, as well; only the view from the top is much the same as before. Vøringsfossen in summer is one of Western Norway’s biggest natural wonders. It marks the transition between the older, open part of the Sysendalen valley and the younger, narrow and winding valley of Måbødalen.
![Potholes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_31.jpg?itok=W2LZyIpN)
![Scythes used to be made in the brick house just across the motorway through Folkedal](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_367-3.jpg?itok=Q7DufBD1)
Nedre Folkedal
For many years the Folkedal scythe had a good reputation. Immediately above the highway through Folkedal there is a long brick building, on the inner side of the river. Here production of scythes went on to the beginning of the 1950s.
![Skjervet toward the east. Jørdre Farm up to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_32.jpg?itok=HGK8HMBs)
Skjervet- river theft
At the end of the last ice age the ice flowed out of Hardanger fjord in such a fury that it forced the meltwater from Voss to run back uphill toward Granvin. The glacier from Raundalen down the windy valley along the Vosso to Bolstadøyri went too slow to make the turn.
![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.
![Glacial river plain at Lake Klevavatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_32.jpg?itok=duW0R_ur)
Rallarvegen
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end came the glaciers and sculptured the vast landscape. Along the ground or on the horizon, from bicycle or on foot - the landscape tells its story - and it tells it clearer on Rallarvegen than many other places.
![Cirque in Dyrdal in Lindås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_22.jpg?itok=YmoL_BEr)
Dyrdal
If you journey along Austfjorden, you at the same time turn the pages of time back through Ice Age history. The landforms show how the landscape has developed gradually as the glaciers have grown - and melted again - in several episodes: from small cirques, we see innermost at Dyrdal, to larger fjords, like at Mas fjord further out.
![The smithy at Odland, Meland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_297-1_0.jpg?itok=n38ypKHf)
Odland
The auger smithies in Odland and Fosse were amongst those which had the largest production of augers in the period between the Wars. Martinus Fosse built a smithy in 1877, and this was in operation right up to the 1980s - one of the centres for auger production in Meland. In 1930 yet another smithy was built here. There was a smithy at Fossesjøen as early at the 18th century, and at the end of the 19th century they went over to auger smithing. There is still a market for hand-forged augers.
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![Flatekvål](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_29.jpg?itok=FmtrpVtP)
Eksingedalen- landscape
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountainsides. The alternations in the landscape are a result of the sculpturing work by glaciers over several ice ages, and the deposition of the glacial river deposits when the last glacier finally melted back.