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Date: September 24th 2011
Location: Piatra Craiului Mountains
Participants: Andra, Vlad, Dorian
Duration: 8h
It didn’t take us long before we considered looking into another track. The weather was marginally optimistic, so we took our gear and went for it on Saturday morning. At almost 11 o’clock we are in Plaiu Foii where we left the car and most of our gear except what we needed to be confortable for the 8 hour track. We took the gps where we had the entry point marked, “Valea Vladusca”, to be sure not to get too carried away by awkward discussions that we usually have. We met 2 old gents, the kind which we appreciate when going in the mountains. At a certain moment, after the spring we went left up the hill through the forrest. Later, we found out that by going foreward we would have seen “Castelul Craitei” another interesting settlement for bivuac in case of crazy weather. After about 2 hours we got to the bottom of a big wall where we had lunch and went further on the pile of rocks that was shaping our track up. It’s quite interesting to see such formations and easy scrambling through some tracks which are not at all hard. The most interesting part of the track is next to the Santinel which you can see in the photos, where a nice exposed passage offers a great view of the whole valley and also serves as the entrance to the only passage where a bit of climbing happens. After this nice passage which finishes with a “gate” a few hundred meters follow up on the left and there you are on the “Braul de mijloc”. With some orientation we managed to get through the fog to the red band trail called “La Lanturi”. It was quite nice since we did not meet anyone on the trail and we practiced abseilling in 2 points just not to regret that we carried a rope with us. We got to Plaiu Foii just when darkness settled, and went for a boul of soup afterwards a few sips of red wine in the tent. At the hut, we met Ciprian who was more than happy to eat something which wasn’t meat and green at the same time. At about 11 we were asleep in tent, feeling happy for the day and the track that we managed to finish.
