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![From Grønafjellet toward Kattnakken.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_16.jpg?itok=aYyd-7QK)
Grønafjellet
Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, here and there one nonetheless finds mountain plants, and this makes some coastal mountainsides a little bit different. Perhaps the growth on these mountainsides gives us a little glimpse of a distant past?
![Oyster farmer Alf-Roald Sætre of the Espevik dam](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/tysnes_6.jpg?itok=Qe16WF4L)
![The walls in the boathouse in Hopssundet are built of red granite from Reksteren.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/tysnes_25.jpg?itok=_ViluBHW)
![Working with roof slates in the slate quarry at Nordheim around the year 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_29.jpg?itok=AFazwPkE)
Nordheim
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until the Voss Railway came in 1883 and woke them, like the prince in the fairytale who awakened the Sleeping Beauty."
![Mining pit in the steep slope at Froastad.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_482_froastad_fykse_150.jpg?itok=JOgBuVSc)
![Vesoldo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_465.jpg?itok=0QTt1JUj)
Vesoldo
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem from the time when the mountain chain collapsed. Few can compare with the giant fold that remains in the mountain area around Tørvikenuten, Vesoldo and Hellefjellet.
![Anatase](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_11.jpg?itok=gFwWuBQa)
![The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_27.jpg?itok=zyI9-mbt)
Kvalvikane
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kvalvikane.
![From Kinsekvelven river toward Lakes Kinsevatnet and Veivatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_25.jpg?itok=-w2m_QOH)
Veivatnet
From Kinsekvelven river and inward to Lake Veivatnet, we can wander through one of Hardangervidda's many fertile areas. A number of finicky plants grow here, and there are plenty of birds and fish. We can thank a lime rich soil for the diversity.
![The rock paintings in Grødalshaug, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_234-x.jpg?itok=3teSxvuP)
Grødalshaug
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of the rock is a steep rock cliff facing the valley, the bog and the stream. On this rock face we find rock carvings from the Bronze Age.