Route 18

Time to go :

• summer : 6 ½ to 7 h
• in winter : it is not recommended to

Places of refuge : the Cabin, the Key, The Old

Point of water : the Cottage, the Key, The Old,

Description :this Trail connects the Buila-Vânturariţa Massif and a Mountain of Skulls, by Area, Hădărău.

At the Cottage, the Key to the start on the road to the north, across the River to the Key move of a corner (flag) route no. 14 (yellow line), and 15 (the red cross), cross the river and then return with a new crossing on the left bank, and after that leave the bottom of the valley up the road to the south. After 5 minutes, you’ll get to a point where a sign tells us that we need to be off the road. As far as I’ve been travelling with, and marked with a yellow cross on the trail, no. 13. From the sign up to the left into the woods and hit the slopes of the Mountain, Hădărău. After several switchbacks, the road-old tractor at times difficult to distinguish, at the end of the 2 – 2½ hours at the departure, break into the Clearing and back Hădărău (1320 feet). Here you (the indicator) to meet an artificial lake. 19, marked with a blue cross, which you get from Băile Olăneşti; the two routes, as here, the common way to the Top of Gera, the end point in the main ridge of the Mountain of Skulls. If that is as far as I stepped on the old road from the tractor rather hard to see from here, the road becomes quite clear. In the meadow we continue to the north and into the beech forest on the east face of the Mountain, Căprăreasa. The road, dug up at times into the rock of the slope, we take it slow by slow climb, at a point where we have access to the Stogu (S), and the Tip of the Folea (S). After about a 40-minute drive from the Saddle, Hădărău, we’ll be out in an area of the woods, a young spruce tree. Leaving the woods, where you can see the ruins of a building, up a winding road and pick up the long climb on the slope, and out in 30 minutes, you’ll get to love you (1600 km). From here the path descends a little to the right in a valley, and then it comes up in a clearing. Further up on the left poenii, we’re back among the spruce trees, and after a couple of hundred yards out in the glade, the more that goes up to the peak of the Resort the Sea. Get another part in the woods, across the stream Olăneşti river and close to its origins, you’ll get into the mountain. At the bottom of the valley, there are two buildings, an old shepherd. From here, climb up on to the grassy southern slope of the Peak of the Gera (1890 m), the end point of the route.