Sjodalen

Sjodalen is a wide, gently sloping valley in Southern Norway, draining the eastern parts of Jotunheimen.

Perhaps the most easy definition is to state that the valley draining Sjoa is named Sjodalen in Vågå and Heidal in Sel municipalities.

Rather than bringing the summer harvest down into the village and main farm, the farmers took the animals back up into the mountains during winter.

[1] In the valley-floor and low valley sides the landscape is dominated by pine, the highest pine-forest of Norway.

Several traditional places to spend the night exists, including Randsverk camping, Hindsæter, Bessheim, Maurvangen and Gjendesheim.