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beautifully situated at the W. end of tlie Slidrefjord. The road
traverses wood the greater part of the way to the next station,
ascending the left bank of the Bægna, which, a short distance
beyond Løken, forms a fine fall called the Lofos, and finally crosses
the Bægna to the Vangsrues Hotel.
15Kil. Øilo (1475 ft.; ^Station, civil landlady) is a favourite
resort of artists. The situation of the place presents little attraction,
but it lies close to the *Vangsmjesen (1535 ft.), a magnificent lake,
about 19 Kill in length. The road follows the S. bank of the lake
to Gaarden Kvam, near which it is carried past the Kvamsklev
(‘ravine cliff’) by means of a gallery hewn in the face of the
Hu-gnkolle. In spring and autumn the safety of travellers is
sometimes endangered here by the falling of masses of rock. At the
most hazardous point the road is protected by a roof. This is the
most striking point on the whole of the Valders route, and
commands a noble survey of the imposing lake and the mountains
enclosing it. On the right rises the Vednisfjeld, on the left the
Grindefjeld (see below), and opposite us the Skjoldfjeld. To the
N. is the Drøsjafos. A little farther on, to the left of the road, is
Tune i Vang.
10 Kil. Grindaheim [f*Vang Hotel, clean and reasonable; the
landlord , Ole For, speaks English; Hotel Fayerli, new),
beautifully situated on the bank of the Vangsmjesen. Just before
reaching the station we pass the Church of Vang, which replaces the
old Stavekirke (‘timber church’), purchased by Frederick William
IV. of Prussia in 1844 for 320 kr. and removed to the Giant
Mts. in Silesia. A stone in front of the church bears the Runic
inscription: lGosasun,ir ristu stin thissi aftir Gunar’ (‘the sons
of Gosa erected this stone to the memory of Gunar’). To the S.
rises the huge Grindefjeld (5G05 ft.), which may be ascended
hence in 4 hrs. — The road continues to skirt the lake, passing
the church of Øye, near which is the beautiful Elvtunfos. Opposite
to us rises the imposing N. bank of the lake, on which tower
the conspicuous Skodshorn (similar phenomenon to that seen on
the Lysefjord, p. 46) and the Skyrifjeld.
From Øye a mountain-path, passing to the S. of the Kvamenøs (3900 ft.)
and the Borrenøs (4870 ft.), which latter may he ascended from the route,
and skirting the Utrovand, leads to Kysluen on the Fillefjeld (see p. 95)
in half-a-day.
The road now ascends from the Vangsmjøsen to the small
Strandefjord (1605 ft.), which it skirts (not to be confounded with
the Strandefjord lower down, p. 93). At the end of it is Kasa.
From Kasa a path leads to the Jonskard-Stelers (4120 ft.) and thence
to the U.W., passing the Fagersætnøs (5475 ft.) on the right, to the
ifian-tjensjø and Steinbodsjø, and through the Gjetmundsdal to Lake Tyin
(Tvinde-houg, p. 139); in all a good day’s walk (guide 4 kr.).
Beyond the Strandefjord the scenery assumes a more
mountainous character, and a few farms are now seen on the sunny (N.)
side of the valley only.
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