Steg for steg : Step by step

Today, on a really warm august sunday, we once again are headig for our highest mountain in Bergen, Gullfjellet. A rather steep shortcut is walked by 8 boots on 8 feets and 4 feets of one dog. Sheeps are grazing high up in the hillside so the dog has to be kept in a line.

Longhaired black wool was really not a clothing to wear for us on this warm sommer day. May be the sheeps were waiting for the owners shears, so they could get rid of their clothing.

The sheep leaders has a bell fixed to a necklace. Then their owners can find them more easily and bring them home in a few weeks from now. And every sheep has a label with the owners symbol in the ear tip.

Some people get very excited by climbing up the steep hillside. On a top, but not the final one, a norwegian flag is blowing in the wind to show the world that a norwegian team has won the race to the top this sunday.

After some hours we are on the mountain top (987 m), and can have a look back to the fjord. From here the landscape look rather flat, but by a warning sign we are reminded abot the steep cliff just a few steps in front.

Downwards we are guided to find the right way by the big stone cairns. Today there are no problems to get down, but in foggy wether it's very nessesary to find the right way by following the cairns. Here we pass cairn number 57 looking forward to the next one , nr. 58.

In the steepest part of the hillside a small hut is built for security reasons, containing rescuing materials like a hand barrow.

Down in the valley where more people are walking their sunday trip, the path is cultivated. There has been done a lot of work for years by our ancestors to raise the standard.

Further down we continue on a better footpath for family walking. A small river is crossed by a bridge.

Now we look forward to get home for dinner and relax our bodies during the evening. Some of us also mean that we deserve something extra, did I hear Chablis? There will surely be no opportunity to do a trip like this until next year.

The fjords in Norway are recognised to be among the most beautiful landscapes in the world. In summer the fjords are destinations for many cruise ships. The waterfall Feigefossen is one of the highest, 216 m vertical fall, and can easily be seen from a cruise ship sailing in the Lusterfjord.

The fjords are of great value in advertising an image of our country and its landscape and tourist industry. But locally the fjord landscape and its waterfalls only give a small part of peoples incomes. Some waterfalls are protected by law, others are still objects for the development of new hydro power plants to produse more electricity needed in households and home industry.
Now a planned 350 km long powerline might disturb a lot of the scenery. Step by step more powerlines have to cross valleys and fjords like this one crossing Sogndalsfjorden at Fardal.

Looking at the cables, shining in the afternoon sunshine, I wonder if more powerlines like these can beautify the landscape and be an adventure for visitors as well as for local people in a nearby village. Why not claim a complete removal of the high voltage, the transformators and these seven gigantic masts in painted metal structure as a condition to accept another powerline?

Please tell me your opinion by a comment!
PS! Look closer to the picture. Workmen have climbed to the top the second mast. Someone told me that one of the workmen also did a ride by bike on the line.