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 Digging a road through the deep July snowdrifts upon Dyreskard Pass Looking through a great snow-tunnel on a midsummer journey over Dyreskard Pass Pretty Norwegian girls tending cows and goats on the Haukeli Mountains, Midtlaeger Saeter Great zigzag loops of road descending from Dyreskard Pass; west to mountain-walled Lake Roldal A farmer's family making hay in a sunny field between the mountains. Roldal Pretty mountain-walled village and lake of Roldal in rugged western Norway Old log houses down in the Bratlandsdal with trees growing on their sod-covered roofs The wonderful Bratlandsdal road, blasted through mountain walls of solid rock Travelers on a mountain road through the wild ravine of Seljestad, northwest to snowy Folgefond Espelandsfos, one of the loveliest waterfalls in all Scandinavia - a gem in superb setting More Articles About Norway |
( Originally Published 1907 ) Surroundings ”Just deep snowbanks and ragged ledges. There are no trees or shrubs of any account in this vicinity, though mosses grow among the rocks. Evidently the wind led this snow a lively dance, so irregular is its distribution now ”these huge drifts accumulating right here, while parts of the road ahead were swept bare and clean. The photographer who went over this route before us was caught in the storm when the air was so thick with flying flakes that he could not see as far ahead as that steep slope opposite us now. The cold was intense, and the wind so searching that the post-boy advised a halt and a rest in a small hut only a few rods from here around that turn at the right. A fire was soon blazing on an open hearth in that hut, and, after getting well warmed, the travelers felt better courage for facing the rest of the storm. The men we see here now are farmers who "work out" their share of the public road tax, paying in labor instead of cash-a common custom in many parts of the country. A part of the way through this gigantic snowdrift the men did not cut out the whole depth of snow, but merely cut through it. Let us go down inside the hollow through which that stolkjaerre has to pass. |