The Langfoss waterfall is set in the Municipality of Etne, which specifically sits in Fjaera. Well-known for their country markets and fishing festivals, aside from the waterfalls, Etne contains about 4,000 people and is a popular little tourist locale in the summer. On the land opposite river that the waterfall Langfoss enters is a small rest area and visitor’s kiosk.


Pouring down the mountainside in a rich tumultuous froth of water from top to bottom, Langfoss is diverted around large rocky outcroppings that would bring to a painful halt any courageous or silly enough to attempt extreme white water rafting down this waterfall. There are also one or two particularly large rocky outcrops that are known to host a few frail conifers. These rocky outcrops have managed to take seed in the thin soil and have more than enough water flowing around them. However, their growth is stunted yet they offer a small sense of comfort that this roiling waterway isn’t entirely dangerous to all life. Slowly giving way on the sides of the waterfall is a thick layer of mature conifers attempting to fill in the bald spots on the mountainside.
Langfoss is at the height of its flow all year round. Tourists have the pleasure to visit Norway and find that the flow of water from Langfoss. It is a constant waterfall. Unlike some waterfalls, such as Victoria Falls it is unaffected by changing conditions in the seasons. Langfoss maintains the same flow all year round whereas the volume of water issuing forth from Victoria Falls is dramatically reduced during the dry seasons on the African continent.
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Nowadays, many waterfalls in Norway have been utilized by the building of hydro electronic plants in their waterways. Fortunately, Langfoss has not been misused in such a manner. It is natural that any such plant would divert much of the volume of water from the waterfall and greatly diminish its flow down the mountainside to a mere trickle. Langfoss and a few other waterfalls in Norway, however, have been lucky to escape utilization. Langfoss and these few other waterfalls remain preserved in their natural state to continue their work eroding the cliff faces and mountainsides they come from.
