Today was a bit of a shit day. I successfully hitchhiked from Avrig to Poiana Neamtului (15km), which is one of the many access points to theFagarasi mountains. It is located on the east side and my intent was to proceed westward. I left Poiana Neamtului at around 11:00. I missed the sign to Barcaciu Cabin mostly because the driver said the path leading there was really easy and wide etc., and thus I presumed mistakenly, that the wide path I walked on was the way. I further, paid no attention to the fact that it had no markings. Anyway, I walked up for 2 hours (and saw no one) until reaching a dead end. Well, several dead ends since there were forks in the road and I tried all of them. I called the Salvamont at that point and realized I had to go back to the very beginning, which was most upsetting. So at 13:30 I left again this time on the right track. An important (and useful) lesson was learned though: The paths in Romania are (mostly) very well marked so if you see no mark, then you’re not on the path.
From Poiana Neamtului (706m) it took me 2 hours to get to Barcaciu cabin (1550m). The weather got bad and it rained a bit. At 16:35 I left to Negoiu Cabin (1546m). While there is not much height difference the walk was extremely unpleasant because the path was very narrow with loads of wet vegetation that soaked my barely dry boots again. I was wearing shorts (which was a good thing because it kept my one pair of long trousers dry), which meant that I was pretty damn wet and cold. The walk took 2.5 hours and of course I met no one on the way. Negoiu cabin was great. First, I had a hot shower which was brilliant. Next, the nice lady over there took my shoes and some socks I had and placed them near their kitchen heater to dry. Additionally, she gave me a room of two for the price of a room of four (30Lei =~ 13USD), and there was no one there but myself. Also, I had some good food (or was I just too hungry?).
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