MOUNT KORAB - Highest Peak of Albania and Macedonia (route from Radomirë, Albania)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 11.48 mi
- Elevation gain
- 5,217 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 5,217 ft
- Max elevation
- 9,132 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 4,106 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 5 hours 25 minutes
- Time
- 7 hours 59 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3393
- Uploaded
- November 16, 2021
- Recorded
- November 2021
near Radomirë, Dibër (Albania)
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Itinerary description
We climbed this peak on the Albanian side, from the town of Radomirë. Base: Hotel Radomira (good hotel with friendly and generous people, €10 per night per person... You can call +355693582090 to make a reservation in English).
Trail starts next to this hotel. There are many ways up, but we followed the fully marked trail (can be slightly confusing in the beginning, but it becomes more obvious later). It's an actual trail, good to follow, but steep all the way through. You need to be rather fit to do this. Views are great along the entire trail. At some point there's a split that I marked where you can take a shorter but harder and steeper way to the top (red-yellow trail mark), or you can follow what we did (red-white trail mark). We did some small detours to make it more fun, but that's optional.
Water available on many occasions by streams.
The trail leaving from the middle of town, where also the black-lake-trail splits of, is apparently known for dogs trained to aggressively guard the flocks of sheep and other cattle. If the shepherd doesn't see you to stop their dog they might attack, so I won't recommend that.
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Trail starts next to this hotel. There are many ways up, but we followed the fully marked trail (can be slightly confusing in the beginning, but it becomes more obvious later). It's an actual trail, good to follow, but steep all the way through. You need to be rather fit to do this. Views are great along the entire trail. At some point there's a split that I marked where you can take a shorter but harder and steeper way to the top (red-yellow trail mark), or you can follow what we did (red-white trail mark). We did some small detours to make it more fun, but that's optional.
Water available on many occasions by streams.
The trail leaving from the middle of town, where also the black-lake-trail splits of, is apparently known for dogs trained to aggressively guard the flocks of sheep and other cattle. If the shepherd doesn't see you to stop their dog they might attack, so I won't recommend that.
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Waypoints
Intersection
7,978 ft
2 ways to the top
There's a split up here. You can go to the left straight to the top, very steeply. Or you can follow our route looping to the top, still quite steep, but slight more mellow.
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