ABSTRACT
As outdoor recreation in the northern part of Norway grows, it is also diversifying. Different people carry with them different values as they sense, perceive and enact the outfields based on allemannsretten, which prevails in Nordic landscapes. Thus, the spaces for moral negotiations that accompany any use of allemannsretten are becoming messier. Explorations of how people accommodate outdoor recreation moralities provide insight into the layered qualities of northern landscapes found beyond reductive representations based on the nature–culture binary. This chapter approaches outdoor recreationalists who use allemannsretten and accommodate their outdoor moralities in the Reisadalen area in northern Norway. Skilled trekkers’ experiences and considerations, and their relatedness to the national friluftsliv tradition, are used as a point of departure for pursuing varieties of practices, values and concerns involved in moral landscape enactments. Throughout, the analysis recognises the naturalcultural ontologies of landscapes and emphasises the historical-geographical, specifically regarding how moral performances of outdoor recreation are negotiated on-ground. This approach illuminates what is at stake, for whom and for what, as decisions concerning how to manage the lands at the northern rim of Europe are continuously negotiated in different places and at varying scales.
