Mörtfors - Getterum - Getgölen. Tjustleden etapp 1

**The first stage of the Tjust Trail runs between Mörtfors and Getgölen and starts about 1 kilometer south of Mörtfors. The stage is about 19 kilometers long.

**Stage description, from south to north (Mörtfors to Getgölen)

The trail follows the shore of Stora Rammen. At Ramnesund you will find the first croft ruin and a small burial mound. The trail passes large boulders and penetrates between steep cliffs and the lake. Giant spruces and pines grow here and the vegetation is rich and varied in the sheltered southern position. Linden grows at the foot of a viewing mountain, with a brilliant view of the surroundings. There are the remains of an ancient castle.

In many places after the stage, the trail follows old droveways that were connecting and school routes for the crofts. These "culture trails" were heavily overgrown but have been cleared again. Where the old crofts were located, you pass overgrown and planted fields. In the dense spruce forest there are now the well-cleared cairns. Most of the old crofts are completely gone, but you can still find cultivated plants such as lilacs, evergreens (e.g. Lindhult), oxlips, apples, mallow and pollarded birches (Perstorp) as well as wolfsbane and Caucasian celandine (Samsvik).

The area through which the trail passes is very rich in game and it is not unusual to see moose, for example. Raven are often seen, osprey fish in the lakes and the common loon calls in the summer evening. Along the northern shore of the St. Rammen, ivy and china grass grow. Mushrooms and berries are abundant in the fall.

Both Stora Ramm and Tällsjön have several suitable resting places with bathing rocks.

Getterum village is the largest village in Hjorteds parish. The village has probably been inhabited since the Stone Age, as it is surrounded by numerous ancient remains. However, agriculture is probably of later times as the lake system at the time would have covered large areas. These were drained by land uplift, could first be used as pastures and gradually became arable.

The name of the village can be assumed to derive from the term "goat" or "geta" in the sense of a grazing ground for livestock. Grazing on the sand and gravel ridges could provide the inhabitants with the necessary "goat room". On Åsen there is an old market place that is still used annually.

In its southwesternmost stretch through the village, the trail runs on "Sjögårdsvägen", which is the old village road through the farmland.