The weather was good and so off we (Catalin and I) went towards Balea Lake. This was a long 9.5 hour day that started at 8:10. First we hiked up to Negoiu Peak (2535m), which was nearly 1000m up from the cabin. There were other hikers on the way up. From there we started heading down though a place called “Strunga Dracului” (translation: “the devils way”). This required going down using chains, and while that sounds rather exciting it pretty quickly lost its appeal, as it was simply plain dangerous. The descent was of approximately 200 meters I’d guess. We arrived at Caltun lake where we had lunch and from where we saw no one until the end of the day. At that point the weather also got a bit colder, but fortunately rain was not involved. We proceeded towards Balea lake with no incident and it took another 4 or 5 hours to get there.
Balea lake is a touristic place, unfortunately. There’s a road that crosses (north to south)the Fagarasi mountains and it goes through this place. Thus, unlike the rest of the mountain areas, there’s some noise there, people that are not hikers, and an overpriced hotel with not too friendly people. So we asked the Salvamont if we could stay in his cabin (some places have Salvamont cabins, which are not meant to host people officially). The guy was extremely nice and let us stay there for 20 Lei (8 USD).
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