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My
favourite spot was "Åstdalen", a gentle mountain valley covered
with spruce, firs and finally birch trees up towards the naked barren mountain hills. I
have been fishing here, used to keep my sheep grazing here, and I have been both moose and
reindeer hunting here. There are dirt roads crossing the place all over with some camping
lots for the tourists, as well as an abundance of recreational cabins. There also are
remnants of a lot of mountain summer "farms". A times forestry is intense
leaving huge open scars in the hill slopes. Still this Aast valley is a gem providing
people a variety of benefits. Along the bottom of this U-shaped valley the Aasta river
floats gently towards the east. Lately we have been blessed with the presence of both
wolverine, lynx, bears and even the stray wolves, a nuisance and pest to some, a joy to
others.
We often hunt in the snow.
In memory of my dog Tinka.
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The returning of the bear Click the pictures to see them in a bigger format
The bear den: 1992. Since the returning of the bear I was the first to find a bear den. This was freshly dug close to a cabin area at Hamarsetra. Kjell Vidar Sander and me. This bear condo in an old ant hill was made as a reserve and collapsed two years later from the weight of the snow. Tracks: Earlier the same year. My friend Erland studies a row of bear tracks. This huge mama bear was accompanied by a cub when she had to run for cover among the trees along this tricklet of a creek. Some of us who knew about her even named her. A few years earlier she was seen eating berries with her fresh twins across the valley not far from this place. This time my niese Gry and her Øystein tagged along to see if we were able to find bear tracks. Of course we did.
Track. A single track of
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