Woke up at 8:30 and wasn’t feeling too well. I left camp at 12:30 and left the tent and most of the gear. The track today was a circular track that first got me to Peleaga Peak 2509m (the tallest peak in the Retezat mountains) in 1.5 hours The views were terrific . I met two Germans there that arrived shortly after me (they were the only people I met until nearly my return to camp). From there I continued to Papusa Peak 2508m, which took one hour. The two peaks are one next to the other and I basically had to decent to a saddle and then ascend to the other peak. Then I got back down to the saddle between the two peaks and from there descended further on an unmarked path to lake Peleaga, where I arrived at 17:00. I had lunch there and then things got a little interesting as I had to continue on an unmarked path. The Salvamont (i.e. a person working for the rescue service) claimed it was no problem. In reality I had (bad) flashbacks from my Nina Valley Track experience back in New Zealand. Still, I managed to get a place called Poiana Pelegii at 18:48, from where the path was marked. In fact, things were ok even before then, once I crossed Peleaga stream.
The sign to lake Bucura said 2 hours. Although I was already pretty damn tired, I got my ass in gear and headed up (m height difference) toward lake Bucura as fast as I could, at first mostly because it was going to get dark and then because it was going to start raining. Ultimately, I arrived at my tent at 19:50 after having run the last few meters as it started to rain pretty heavily. Indeed, it poured the whole night real hard and fortunately my tent withstood the onslaught with dignity.
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