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I was thirteen when I left Gauldalen behind, after living there since I was born… In this series it is my aim to show the diversity and daily life in this area, during all seasons of the year.
What we see here used to be seafloor 10-15.000 years ago, but today the place is located around 20 km from the river mouth and the altitude is 25 m (riverbed).
The landscape in the view is dominated by farmland, but if you look closely at the hillside to the left you can see huge piles of fine sand left by the river up through thousands of years. When I was a kid in the 1960ties the parents of a friend of mine woke up one morning and found themselves multi-millionaires as they were the owners of the much in demand sand we see here…
A closer view of the sand quarry is shown in the WS image!
And maybe you can recognize several red barns scattered around, as every farm has at least one…
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Gauldalen is a valley in the central part of Norway in the county Sør-Trøndelag. The latitude for this area is around 64, which is the same as in the middle of Alaska. However, the climate is better than in Alaska because of an ocean stream bringing warm water from the Caribbean.
Gauldalen is more than 100 km long, and the river Gaula runs in the valley in the northwest direction from its origin in the mountains around 30-40 km from the Swedish border. |
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