Stavbergsetra

Norangsdalen has long been used for summer pasturing and mountain dairy farming. We will soon pass Stavbergsetra, where the houses, or "sela" as they are called here in Norway, are placed against large rocks in a scree, to shelter them as much as possible from avalanches and wind. The mountain dairies were built in the mid-1800s when dairy farming was at its most intensive in the country. From the 1920s, dairy farming in Norangsdalen declined, and by the 1950s, it had almost completely ceased. Today, cattle and sheep graze in the valley.