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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 ) Direction—We are facing somewhat south of west. The Folgefond is towering into the sky away up beyond that hilltop, but, of course, we are too far down under the lee of the hill to see it. Surroundings—Behind us is another hill corresponding to the one we see. That is the highway by which we have come. The waiting horse is headed toward Odde. That loop of road at the left has been constructed to allow carriages to come up for the view and return without backing the horse. They take a good deal of trouble nowadays to help strangers see the beauties of the country, and an especially large number of tourists come to this point because the Hamburg-American and other popular excursion boats go to Odde, and this is only a comfortable ride—three hours or so—from the village. A little hotel has in fact been built up here on this side hill, and takes care of a good many transient guests during the season. A three-hour drive gives one a good appetite for bread and cheese, fish, fresh milk, smoking coffee, and sweet wild strawberries ! Those waters that seem in such haste have only a comparatively short journey now to reach the ocean—that is, a long fjord below here at the north. But before they have gone many rods they receive another contribution, a double contribution as it were, from the hills on this east side of the highway. (See 38 on the map.) |