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to the E., the highest ground between the two valleys being about
940 ft. above the sea-level (comp. p. 132). A little way from 0\e
the road crosses a ’■Balle’, or rising neck of land, and enters a broad
basin, containing the hamlet of Skylstad, from whose inhabitants
the sun is shut out during the greater part of the year.
A grand but fatiguing path leads hence to the X.E. across
-Skylstad-brekken (2590 ft.), between Slogen and Smerskredfjeldel, to Stranden on
the Sunelv fp. 188), and thence to the X.W., via Gaarden Brunstad (road
beyond this point) to Aure in Søkelven (p. 188). Imposing scenery. — The
Skylstadbrekken may also be combined with an ascent of the Slogen (p. 176)
or Smerrskredfjeld.
The valley is bounded on the S. by the Middagshom (4355 ft.)
and the Reipen, and on the N. by the Smerskredfjeld (5240 ft.;
first ascended by Mr. Slingsby in 1884). The road now quits the
inhabited part of the valley and ascends through a stony wilderness
(Ur), under which several mountain-torrents disappear. The
No-rangsdals-Elv is crossed twice. By the second bridge the scenery is
singularly impressive. The mountains rise perpendicularly from the
valley, and avalanches which have descended from them cover the
river at places, forming bridges of snow in summer. Above us rises
the precipitous Staven (4960 ft.), under the shade of whose rocks
the cattle seek refuge from the midday heat. Farther on, the valley
suddenly expands, and we reach the Stavbergsvand, the first of
four lakes lying one above another. At its E. end are the three
(Stavberg-Satre). The road now skirts the hill to the S. The
last lake but one loses most of its water in dry seasons, when it
is reduced to a single pool near its outlet. The highest point of
the road lies 940 ft. above the sea.
14 Kil. Fibelstad-Haugen (1215 ft.; Haugen s Hotel, English
spoken; fast station), ifi the upper part of the *Nebbedal, is a
good starting-point for mountain-excursions to the Jerundfjord
and the Sekelvfjord (p. 188). The station is surrounded by most
imposing mountains. To the S.W. rise the Kviteggen (5585 ft.;
ascended in 4-5 hrs.) and the Bjernstifjeld (4928 ft.), to the E. is
the Fibelstadnibben, with its abrupt wall of rock, and to the W.,
beyond the Skar, towers the Smerskredfjeld. A fine route leads
through the Kvitelvdal to Bjerke (p. 185).
Leaving Fibelstad-Haugen, so called to distinguish it from
lndre Haugen on the road to Grodaas (p.184), we observe to the
left, beyond the Fibelstadnibben, the Satredal and
Trygyestad-Xak-ken, and to the right the Blaafjeld. The Xebbedal, with its pastures
sprinkled with birches, presents a pleasant appearance in summer,
but is described by Magdalene Thoresen in her village-tales as
a most dismal and dangerous place in winter and spring, when
avalanches are frequently precipitated into it. About 6 Kil. from
Haugen we reach TryggesOid on the Hornindal and Hellesylt road.
From this pointa good road descends to (11 Kil.) Hellesylt^see p. 185).
From Hellesylt to Molde, see R. 21.
Hakukkkk’s Norway ami Sw.dun. 4th Edit.
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