Rodal Traditional Cache
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Rodal and "Engdal" are two villages that up until 1975 belonged to Aure municipality. At the time, there were around 80 people living permanently in Rodal. Today there are less. It is still popular as a summer residence area, though, and fishing in the Vinje fjord in this area is known to be very good and attracts tourists from central Europe.
Rodal collage
NORWEGIAN:
Rodal og Engdal ble flyttet fra Aure kommune til Halsa kommune i 1975. Halsa kommune vokste da med ca. 180 sjeler. 80 av dem bodde i Rodal. Navnet Rodal kan komme av flere ting. Noen mener det kommer fra "Rød dal" fordi dalen farges rød når sola går ned i Aursundet som, du ser på andre siden av fjorden herfra. Fisket her skal igjen være bra, selv om trålere nærmest ødela hele Vinjefjorden da de trålet seg helt inn til Vinjeøra på 70-tallet.
ENGLISH:
Back when there were few roads and boats was the preferred means of transportation, it made sense that this area belonged to the municipality just across the fjord. One can often understand Norwegian coastal history better when one travel by boat. It is as if the towns and vlllages open up to you more. When driving on highways inland, one is basically seeing the settlements from the backyards.
Roads where however built in this area in the 50s and 60s, and passenger boats eventually stopped running. By 1975 it made more sense for this area to belong to Halsa kommune. People living here still sometimes feel like they are in the outskirts of the municipality's awareness, though.
There are several theories on why it is called "Rodal". "Dal" means "valley". "Ro" can come from "rød" meaning "red", because the sun setting in the sound on the other side of the fjord sometimes "color" Rodal red. So "Rodal" can mean "Red Valley".
Halsa
Halsa has it's pluses and minuses. Great nature. Beautiful scenery. Excellent hiking possibilities. Easy access to the main road along the Western coast (E39). Still, population is declining. Urbanization has hit Halsa harder than many other municipalities, even though people leaving for the cities is a problem in many rural areas in Norway.
Different areas of Halsa have very different identities. Valsøyfjord is an old industrial area and used to be the largest industrial centre in Møre & Romsdal county. Here, people from all over the world used to come to find work. The labour movement was very strong. Traditional boat building still stands strong here.
The other side of the Municipality (Halsa and Halsanaustan) was more proned to farming the land, land ownership and running timber industries. The labour movement was, therefore, not very strong here. One can still sense "remains" of that difference today.
Halsa is not spectacular at first glance (besides the scenery), but it is a very "honest" piece of rural Norway. And, as with most things, once you get to know the place, it actually is quite spectacular and has a very interesting history.
I therefore found making a kind of Halsa themed series was a fun cache project. There are/will be caches with short snippets of local history all over the municipality. At least one for each "grend" (village) and noticable site. If you are new to Norway, this example of a typical Norwegian municipality, everyday rural life and varied scenery, could make for an interesting experience and sightseeing.
Halsa has 1595 inhabitants and 300 sq. km. land mass, whereof 8 sq. km. is water. Halsa is also known for being the place where the world famous Killer whale "Keiko" swam to and stayed until he died some years ago.
The "Halsa" chapter in every cache decription will be identical.
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