Sammendrag
This thesis is about central values connected to The Norwegian Trekking Association (DNT). Values connected to volunteer work, and values connected to their self-service cabins. I have conducted fieldwork as a volunteer for DNT over a six-month period, participating in the building of bridges, and a five-week consecutive stay at two different self-service cabins. The building of bridges is organized through a volunteer group of bridge builders. In the thesis, I show how this organizing is done, and how values like knowledge and experience are emphasized. I also show how the jackets worn by the bridge builders is a material representation of the values important to the group. During the five weeks I volunteered as a warden at two of DNT’s self-service cabins. I was able to observe and take part in practices relating to trust. At these cabins I paid special attention the trust-based system on which they are built. In the thesis I show how this system functions, but I also take into consideration how trust has a wider significance. In relation to this I also discuss different understandings of individualism both within a regional ethnographic context, but also beyond. I connect this to practices of inclusion and exclusion.