I woke up at 7:30 with no help from my alarm clock – the cold took care of things. I was ready to leave before 9:00 but reception was closed and they had my driver’s license. Fortunately, someone showed up shortly thereafter and I left at 9:00. This is my third and final mountain ridge called Piatra Craiului. The formations are very steep and rocky and this is a good terrain for mountain climbers.
Gura Raului cabin was at 750m. I arrived at Curmatura cabin (1470m) at 12:00. At 12:30 I took off again on a circular 3 hour track, which took 2:45. This track involved climbing up to Piatra Mica Peak (1816m) and passing through Crucia Eroilors (The heroes cross) 1791m. The views were great as was the climbing up, which entailed going up some steep rocks and using chains and my hands. It started raining just as I got back to the cabin (15:15). At a little after 18:00 I talked to my dad and then 4 Israelis (Ela, Aiala, Udi, Ehud) walked in – the first ones I met in Romania. They were tracking guides from Ein-Geddy 19-21 y/o and were in Romania for 10 days just to hike in the mountains. Since we had the same itinerary for the next day, we decided we would all leave together the next day and possibly walk together (if we walk at the same pace).
One last thing – when I was in Bucharest I experimented a little with the locals and saw that they knew English well. Later I used just Romanian. Apparently, the Israelis had a really hard time communicating with the locals since outside Bucharest (or in the mountains) they don’t know much English – a problem I was completely oblivious too. Fortunately...
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