Adventure view at 3000 feet

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I totally fell in love with this view and simply had to stop the car and take a picture of it. This was on our way home from summer vacation, about 1/3 of the way across the mountains. I took a few landscape pics of fjords and such on this trip, but personally I think this one came out best. The half-dry bits of lake i the foreground is called Kjelavatn.

Location is 59°48'23.74"N 7°13'34.85"E, south-west direction.

This is a water reservoir, used to make hydroelectric power. One of the easiest ways to spot this is by noticing the water line, and the dry gray rocky layer below the green grassy one. It's pretty low at the moment, promising astronomical prices on electricity this upcoming winter.

Being a member of the European electricity market, Norwegian power companies will produce huge amounts of electricity while water supplies are abundant, and sell cheaply to European countries, spending 90% or more of the available water this way. Later, when water levels are low, they won't be able to afford the same production rate, so they'll import expensive coal or nuclear power generated electricity for our industry and private households, at sky-high prices. That's taking care of your own for ya.