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to rest in a stone hut here. The route next rounds the projecting
buttress of the Fanaraak (6690 ft.), and passes the (35 min.)
Galdebergsvand, and afterwards the Juvvand (4115 ft.), fed by the
glacier-stream Juvvandsaa. On our left now rises the W. side of
the Fanaraak, and we soon survey the whole range of the Horx’mger
(p. 159) rising beyond the deep Htlgtdal, the best point of view
being the *Oscarshoug (3730 ft.), a slight eminence to the left of
the path, 1 hr. from Hervasbrui. A memorial stone records
a visit paid to this spot by Oscar II. in 1860, when crown-prince.
We now descend by a new path into the Helgedal, to (*/£ hr.)
the two saeters of Turtegrød (2790 ft.) and the saeters of Gjessingen
(p. 159), to reach which we diverge to the right.
The ascent of the Fanaraak. which is free from difficulty, may be made
through the Steindal from Gjessingen or from the Helgedals-Sæter (p. 153),
in the Helgedal, 40 min. farther to the E. (6-7 hrs.).
From Turtegred or Gjessingen to Fortun, through the
Ova-bergsdal (lower part of the Helgedal), is a walk of scarcely 2 hrs.
more (ascent 3-4 hrs.); comp. pp. 159, 158.
g. From Eidsbugarden through the Melkedal to
Skogadalsbøen, and across the Keiser to Fortun,
2 Days. The first night of this magnificent but somewhat trying
mountain-walk is spent at Skogadalsbøen, which lies almost equally
distant (8-10 hrs.) from Eidsbugarden and Fortun. The traveller is
recommended to take a guide for the whole way; to Skogadalsbøen 4 kr., to
Bergc Oh br. from Fortun; p. 159) 8 kr. 40 ø’., to the Vettisfos (p. 102) 7 kr.
The guides of Eidsbugarden, Vetti, etc., are usually not well
acquainted with the Horunger. so that the traveller who intends to make
excursions among these mountains should dismiss his guide at the
Helge-dals-Sæter and choose a new one at Fortun or Bcrge (comp. p. 158).
Eidsbugarden, see p. 137. — To the mouth of the Melkedela,
and across that river, see p. 139.
Quitting the lake, the road gradually ascends the *Melkedal,
watered by the boisterous Melkedela. After 3/4 hr. the valley
divides. The branch to the left ascends to the Langeskavlen and the
Uranaastind (p. 138), while that to the right is still called the
Melkedal. Steep ascent through the latter, passing several
waterfalls. As is so frequently the case in Norway, the valley neither
posseses a level floor nor expands into basins, but consists of a
chaos of heights and hollows, where the rock, polished smooth by
glacier-friction, is exposed at places, and at othersis covered with
loose boulders. Vegetation ceases, and no trace of animal life is
visible, save the deep ‘koraak’, or cattle-tracks, in the snow. At
places, however, the ground is thickly strewn with the droppings
of the Lemming (or Lemæn; Lernus Norvegicus, one of the rodentia,
and not unlike a rat), a hardy and intrepid little animal which
frequently swims across Lakes Bygdin and Gjende. The reindeer
often kills the lemming with a stroke of its hoof and eats the
stomach for the sake of its vegetable contents.
About 20 min. above the point where the valley divides we
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