A12202 066 200607 Geirangerfjord Skagefl on opposit side

Skageflå is one of a handful of historic mountain farms on the steep mountainsides along the Geirangerfjorden. It is located in

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county, Norway. Skageflå lies approximately above the fjord. The farm is a 2 to 4 hour walk from the nearby village of

Geiranger Geiranger is a small tourist village in Sunnmøre region of Møre og Romsdal county in the western part of Norway. It is in the municipality of Stranda at the head of the Geirangerfjorden, which is a branch of the large Storfjorden. The nearest ...

, and can also be reached with help of a local

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boat (M/S ''Geirangerfjord''). The boat takes passengers to a spot on the fjord just below the farm, from where they face a very steep half-hour climb. ''Coastal Odyssey'', a sea kayaking company, runs guided kayaking tours with interpretation to the farm. ''Active Geiranger'' also does guided kayak trips to the farm as well as water taxi trips to the trail. Directly across the fjord is the old

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farm and the Seven Sisters waterfall. Although it was abandoned in 1916, Skageflå was once one of the richer goat farms in

, and had two or three mountain pastures for its animals. The farm was inhabited from the middle ages until 1916; it is now a tourist attraction. A rock slide in 1873 destroyed much of the cultivated land. From the fjord, the farm has a difficult uphill hike to get to the farm. Magdalene Thoresen,

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's mother-in-law, said of the area:

This fjord is surrounded by the steepest and, one is almost tempted to say, the most preposterous mountains on the entire west coast. It is very narrow and has no habitable shore area, for the precipitous heights rise in sheer and rugged strata almost straight out of the water. Foaming waterfalls plunge into the fjord from jagged peaks. There are, however, a few mountain farms here, and of these one or two have such hazardous access, by paths that wind around steep precipices, and by bridges that are fixed to the mountain with iron bolts and rings, that they bear witness in a most striking way to the remarkable powers of invention which the challenges of nature have developed in man.History about Bringe-Ragnhild.

The name

The first element is the genitive of ''skagi'' ('outstanding headland') - related to the famous Danish place Skagen. The last element is ''flå'' ('field in a mountain side').

References

Stranda Former populated places in Møre og Romsdal Tourist attractions in Møre og Romsdal Historic farms in Norway Farms in Møre og Romsdal {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub