PARQUE NACIONAL DE LAS MONTAÑAS CINDREL - CÁRPATOS DE TRANSILVANIA - RUMANÍA
near Păltiniș, Județul Sibiu (România)
Viewed 4133 times, downloaded 70 times
Trail photos
March held on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
NOTICE: It is understood that anyone who wants to do this same route assumes the responsibility that an activity entails that is not exempt from possible risks or incidents, in an environment in which common sense and circumstances can make the difference between having a good day or the opposite.
The Cindrel Mountains National Park is located in the heart of the Carpathians, and the Romanians themselves consider it one of the wildest places in their entire country. And all this despite the fact that to get here, we have left the Paltinis ski resort behind, but let's not fool ourselves because many things in Romania are not what they seem.
This area, in addition to being a land of good cheese and large herds of sheep, is also home to quite a few bears and wolves, and for this reason, although some guides show the possibility of talking to the shepherds in a very bucolic way, you have to be very careful with groups of large sheepdogs that are usually not friendly at all. As in so many other places, here they also have their legend of glacial lakes; and it is that according to what they say a young shepherd named Cindrel fell in love with the also young and beautiful daughter of some neighboring shepherds. So far so good, if it weren't for the fact that at the same time the ugly daughter of a local giant also fell in love with a young Cindrel, who logically refused to marry her. A giant as the father was, could not take this affront in any way, and with a simple blow he sent him to the other neighborhood. Well, the tears of the young and beautiful daughter of the shepherds (who should have ended up being the only and true in-laws) cried so much and so bitterly that her tears ended up becoming the glacial lakes: Small Lezer and Large Lezer. Weather is not with us today either, and the last stretch of road has shown us a liquid element to which we began to get used to in the middle of August, through these lands "forsaken by the hand of God" (as my grandfather would say). Four or five kilometers after passing the Paltinis station we have seen a good place to leave the car. From the same car park, a gravel track starts, which in about four kilometers reaches a kind of hostel-refuge called Santa. We head east almost all the time, we are going to follow this track for the first three kilometers, until when we reach a fork, we leave it straight ahead, to take a path to the right that goes deeper and deeper into this hidden spot. Soon, we find a sign that informs us of the possibility of crossing paths with wolves, these yes of flesh and blood, and not the vampires of Transylvania. We are struck by the large quantity and variety of mushrooms that there are in the middle of August, which is not surprising, because in addition to how soaked the ground is, we have been told that already at the end of September the temperatures plummet, with much harsher and snowier winters than it might seem now. From the crossroads, we continue another three kilometres, without ever leaving the same path, since we have neither seen any path nor the possibility of finding a circular route back; until arriving at an area, type braña that the Asturians would say, we decided to retrace our steps, since the rain that has been accompanying us at times during the outward journey, now has been a long time that does not give quarter, and even for the thunder, the storm seems to be getting closer and closer to this area. Needless to say, we haven't seen, heard or smelled any wolf-like quadrupeds, let alone any plantigrades, that would have reminded us of the grizzlies and black bears we saw last summer in Denali and Katmai in Alaska.
Waypoints
Intersection
4,514 ft
k. último cruce ahora por la izquierda hacia pista-cortafuegos
Tree
4,496 ft
j. zona de tala de árboles
Waterfall
4,673 ft
d. segundo torrente
You can add a comment or review this trail
Comments