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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.
![Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/011.jpg?itok=YAgcsVmd)
![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.
![Potholes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_31.jpg?itok=W2LZyIpN)
![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.
![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)
![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.
![The royal mound at Hop, Askøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_270-2.jpg?itok=09oK1K5S)