The summer pastures were probably founded in the 1700s and was used for cattle-raising to the mid-1970s.

On the slope of the next hill, far back from the roadway, is a summer pasture.

Much of our spring is spent moving the sheep from winter to summer pastures.

The low alpine area was traditionally used as summer pastures, and partly still is.

Each member was only allowed to have as many cattle in the summer pasture as they could support over the winter.

The last of these, as the name 'Alpe' suggests, once provided summer pasture for livestock.

It is surrounded by a broad summer pasture and then mountains.

Morna and his uncles brought the cattle in from the summer pasture.

In the spring they return north to the summer pastures, where their calves are born.

The view led across the valley to evergreen forests and high summer pasture.