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Join our Long-distance Ramble in May
This year’s Long-distance Ramble from Dalacarlia to Stockholm starts at 9 a.m. on the 12th of May. The Ramble goes from the Clock Tower in Mora to Skansen at Djurgården in Stockholm. The 360 kilometre walk is divided into 12 daily stages. Most participants wander one or a few stages. That is usually sufficient fun, -and exertion. The point in walking together is that everybody is welcome, no matter how far they want to go.

The ramblers’ baggage is transported to the end of each daily stage. A guide will lead the walk and can tell about the history of the path. At suitable intervals along the way you will find watering places. Those who take part receive a stage folder including directions, a certificate of participation and a rambler’s passport as a souvenir. There is a fee of SEK150 per stage (children and youth under 18 are free).
If you need overnight accommodation between stages, you must book in advance –please call Per Mårthans, phone +46 (0)70-58 129 92, e-mail dkv@trapperservice.se

Daily Stages
Wednesday, May 12, 9.00 AM: Mora/Clock Tower – Tammeråsen, 30 km.
Thursday, May 13, 8.30 AM: Tammeråsen – Rättvik, 20 km
Friday, May 14, 8.30 AM: Rättvik or Leksand – Bjursås, 30/32 km
Saturday, May 15, 8.30 AM: Bjursås/the church – Gamla Staberg, 30 km
Sunday, May 16, 8.30 AM: Gamla Staberg – Fline, 35 km
Monday, May 17, 8.30 AM: Fline – Folkärna, 35 km
Tuesday, May 18, 8.30 AM: Folkärna/kyrkan – Saladamm, 36 km
Wednesday, May19, 8.30 AM: Saladamm – Altuna, 33 km
Thursday, May 20, 8.30 AM: Altuna – Hjälsta, 37 km
Friday, May 21, 8.30 AM: Hjälsta – Bro, 30 km
Saturday, May 22, 8.30 AM: Bro – Solna, 35 km
Sunday, May 23, 8.30 AM: Solna – Stockholm/Skansen, 10 km

The old pathway from Dalecarlia
The so called Dalkarlsvägen, ”the Dalecarlians’ Way” is a system of pathways and roads that wind from Upper Dalecarlia all the way to Stockholm. Dalkarlsvägen was established through seasonal migration to obtain work known as “herrarbete”, working for the gentry, which until the early part of the 1900s was an important part of the Dalecarlian household economy.
Already during the Middle Ages, upper Dalecarlia was overpopulated. Farming land was limited and with each generation the farms and land were sub-divided. Migrating to work in other places brought important extra income. By the middle of the 19th century this migration involved several thousand people. “Herrarbete” meant working for someone who could pay cash. Men and women were equally represented in this migration.
The women worked as gardeners, bricklayers’ labourers and rowers of boats. Women from Våmhus went as far as St Petersburg to sell their artefacts made of hair. The men would often work cutting wood, or as carpenters.
There are still traces, all along the road to Stockholm, of the Dalecarlian people’s migrations. Since the 1990s, the tradition of travelling these paths has been revived in a new form with annual group hikes from Dalecarlia to Stockholm.





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