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In descending the Leirdal, we skirt the imposing Ymesfjeld
for a considerable distance, but the curious-looking Skarstind
(7885 ft.) is the only one of its peaks visible. To the left are the
grand glacier tongues of the Smørstabbrce and several of the
Smør-stabtindeme. Lastly we obtain a view of the Loftet (7315 ft.),
which is most conveniently ascended from the
Bceverkjcern-Sater on the Leiraas (fine view of the Galdhøpiggen and Skarstind.
After a walk of 4 hrs. from the Leirvand we reach the —
Ytterdals-Sætre (3085 ft.; good quarters), prettily situated
near the lofty fall of the Duma. A good bridge crosses the Leira
from this point to the Leiraas, which is traversed by the route
from Rødsheim to the Sognefjeld (see p. 148). From the sæters to
Rødsheim, 4-5 hrs. more (see p. 148).
k. From Skjolden on the Sognefjord to Fortun and the Horunger.
From Skjolden to Fortun, 6 Kil. (33/4 Engl. SI.), carriage-road. Those
who content themselves with a visit to the Klypenaasi may be back at
Fortun within 6 hrs., but if the Skagasløle and the Dyrhaugstind are
included a night should be spent at the Riings-Sæter. If, however, the
traveller is very much pushed for time it is possible, by making a very early
start, to return to Fortun the same evening. — Jens Klingenberg of
Aar-dal (p. 101) has the reputation of being the best guide for glacier-tours
among the Horunger; the brothers Ole and Iver Øiene of Fortun, two
younger men, are also well spoken of.
Skjolden(jp. 105), a steamboat-station at the head of
the-Li/sfer-fjord, lies near the mouth of the pretty and fertile *Fortundal
(p. 159), with its well-wooded sides. The birches and alders here,
as is so often the case in Norway, are sadly mutilated, being
periodically stripped of their foliage, which is used, alternately with
hay, as fodder for the sheep and goats. The cows also eat it
readily, but their milk is apt to be unpleasantly flavoured by it.
The barley-fields are remarkably luxuriant. The potato-plant
often attains a height of 2 ft. or more.
The skyds-station (fast) lies on the S. bank of the Fortun-Elv,
near the steamboat landing-place, in the gaard of Eide, the
obliging owner of which, Mr. Thorgeir Sulheim, is a mine of information
on the llorungør region. The road crosses the Eid, an old moraine,
and reaches the milk-coloured Eidsvand, on the N. side of which
rises the huge rocky wall of the Jersingnaasi (3088 ft.). To the
N.E. we have a view of the Fanaraak (p. 151). We now skirt the
left bank of the lake and then ascend the left bank of the
Fortun-Elv, passing the Lingsfos on the right. Farther on the road is
overhung by the Smalaberg, beyond which the Kvcefos is seen on the
right. To the right, above us, we observe Gaarden Fuglesteg (‘bird
path’; 2490 ft.), past which a fatiguing path leads to Farncrs at the
E. end of the Aardalsvand in the Aardal (see p. 101).
6 Kil. Fortun (150 ft.; *Inn kept by Øiene, the guide and
Landhandler, moderate; horse hence across the fjeld, 16 kr., see
p. 151), a fast station, consisting of a group of handsome gaards,
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