Mountain colours

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Autumn colours. Looking back on the first part of the trail from Gjevilvasshytta to Trollheimshytta. Tyrikvamfjellet in the background.

(2001-09-23)

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Autumn in the upper part of the mountain birch region. Blueberry leaves give rise to the red colour on the ground. The peak of Okla on the south side of Gjevilvatnet in the background.

(2001-09-21)

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The lake Gjevilvatnet and an old summer dairy. The mountain to the left is Okla, the one to the right is one of the three Gjevilvasskamman.

(2005-10-01)

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Gjevilvatnet in 'early' spring. The lake collects and stores water for a hydroelectric power plant and before snow melting the level is always kept low. The power plant ("Driva" in Sunndal) and all the artificial waterways are hidden in the bedrock.

(2008-05-09)

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Golden light at sunset. The lakelets Sprikletjørnin and Neådalssnota seen from the southwest slope of Storlifjellet, Trollheimen.

(1990-07-28)

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Vangshaugen. Altitude 750 m, south of the valley Sunndalen (Trollheimen lies north of Sunndalen), 14 km by road from Gjøra. Vangshaugen was built by Ethelbert Lort-Phillips from Wales in 1919 and bought by a local (Kristiansund) tourist organization in 1934. Accommodations for the public during the summer.

(Sep.2000)

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September at Djupvatnet (alt. 1016 m) east of Geiranger. The sign says: Western Norwegian fjord landscape The Geiranger fjord.

(2014-09-15)

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Arctous alpina, alpine or black bearberry, gets the intense red colour early in the autumn.

(2014-09-14)

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The red colour of alpine or black bearberry is visible only when the light has passed through the leaves. When the light is just reflected, they look dull brown. Here they are mixed with lichens.

(2008-09-12)

(See also "Strynefjellet")

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