1960s

The 1960s provide a practical historical clue in the search for Leike’s hidden hut: people from Bergen anchored cabins at exposed sites in Ustaoset with steel cables, making the cables a sign of how a building could be secured in a windy, isolated place.

Construction at Exposed Sites

The account recalls cabins built in Ustaoset during the 1960s, where exposure to wind and weather made steel cables useful for anchoring them. The detail is specific to a building problem and its practical solution; it does not establish that all cabins in the area were constructed this way.

Clue in the Search for Leike’s Hut

The recalled practice gives the investigators a precedent for interpreting wire cables in connection with Leike’s hut. Their discussion links the cables to a likely windy, secluded site, where substantial building materials would have had to be brought in. The decade therefore functions as a point of comparison in present-day reasoning, rather than as a separate narrated episode.