However, in my experience, the hike wasn't easy as I ended up looking at a minimum of 4-6 hours return (I ended up spending 5 hours) where some parts of the trail were difficult to follow. It turned out that during my June 2005 trip, all the bridges were either taken down or washed away due to high flow (perhaps that made the hike harder than it really should be and why the worker at the visitor center in Kinsarvik looked at me strangely when I told him it was a hard hike). Nonetheless despite the difficulties, I thought the rewards were well worth the effort, and I'd say this is a must do hike for the waterfall lover. :)

So let's get into how the hike was and what I managed to see en route (keep in mind that my hiking experience might not be the norm due to the absence of footbridges)...

This waterfall is Tveitafossen. It sat adjacent to the power station where I left the car. This waterfall could be seen even before the hike began. However, it was difficult to get a direct and clean look of the falls a little further downstream due to the tremendous amount of mist that got thrown in my direction (though it might not be as bad later in the Summer since I was there at the height of its flow in early Summer 2005).

Once I started walking on the trail, I initially tried a bouldery and awkward trail alongside some massive diversion pipes separating the trail from the raging river. That pipe made it rather hard to see the cascading waterfall, but once I got to a spot where the trail started to go up, I looked back at the falls and was able to get some contextual view of it.

Even though I had gone so far on the awkward bouldery path alongside the river, I ended up going back to the car park, and then continue walking further down the road until I saw a climbing unsealed road that was closed to vehicular traffic. It was a rather steep climb, but it didn't really yield very satisfactory views of the falls as it was further back from the river.

Beyond the top of Tveitafossen (about 1km from the trailhead) the unsealed road hit a fork (shortly after the bouldery walk merged with this road). A narrow trail branched off the road back towards the river, but I ended up staying on the road.

About another kilometer further up the unsealed road, I walked past a sign indicating I was entering Hardangervidda National Park and eventually started to see the Nyastølsfossen - the second and perhaps largest of the Husedalen Waterfalls. From the road, I was able to get great contextual but distant views of the falls, but the lower parts were obstructed by trees. It turned out that the more primitive riverside trail that I didn't take would've gotten me up close and personal with this monster waterfall. I still kind of regret to this day not at least checking out that part of the trail and getting closer to the falls.

Probably at about another 0.5km further along the unsealed road, it ends. During my hike, there weren't any signs indicating where I should continue so I really had to search around for red "T"'s painted onto rocks or trees.

It was only after I managed to find these markings did I finally continue walking with some confidence, and before I knew it, Nykkjesøyfossen showed up as the third waterfall. This one lacked the size of the other waterfalls I had seen so far, but it was quite scenic. Perhaps I remembered this waterfall most for the houses that seemed to be situated in the middle of nowhere yet still have gorgeous views of the falls as I walked further along the trail. At least this waterfall was fairly easy to view especially in light of my Nyastolsfossen experience.

The trail ultimately skirted the river (it looked flooded in a couple of spots) before I was almost right at the base of the falls itself. That was when the trail climbed steeply away from the falls and became a rather difficult scramble where I seemed to have lost the trail and scrambled and struggled to find more of those red Ts.

I struggled in this last 1.2km stretch beyond Nykkjesoyfossen because I ended up tramping through mud, hunting for those sparsely placed red Ts, and using all four of my limbs to get over certain climbing obstacles. Perhaps this wouldn't have been so hard if the Kinso River wasn't so swollen and there were footbridges to bypass scrambles like the one I undertook.

Eventually after scrambling above the Nykkjesoyfossen, I was on flatter and more open terrain. That was when I finally saw Søtefossen (also pictured at the top of the page), which was the last and uppermost of the Husedalen Waterfalls. It was unique in that it tumbled in two giant tiers at angles to each other. I think the name was Norwegian for "the sweet waterfall," but I wasn't totally sure (I think this because the word "søt" means sweet). Regardless of whether I'm wrong or not in my translation, this waterfall sure is sweet!

I had to take what photos that I could because the clouds that were hovering in the morning were swirling around the falls. Eventually, they would end up obscuring the falls, and I guess that was my cue to leave.

Directions: To get to the trailhead, I left the Rv13 and drove up a 4km road just beyond the Kinsarvik Hotel in the town of Kinsarvik (which itself is 42km north of Odda and 25km southwest of Eidfjord). I took the road uphill all the way to its end (it gots unpaved once I went past the residential areas) where a power station sits. I left the car in the large lot at the power station.