Peaks of the balkans: 2-Valbona to Cerem (with Zla Kolata summit)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.15 mi
- Elevation gain
- 6,601 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 5,518 ft
- Max elevation
- 8,281 ft
- TrailRank
- 48
- Min elevation
- 2,679 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 6 hours 36 minutes
- Time
- 10 hours 37 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4187
- Uploaded
- August 9, 2023
- Recorded
- August 2023
near Çuka Dunishës, Kukës County (Albania)
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Itinerary description
This is not the original track of the Peaks of the Balkans. The original one follows roads to Cerem so it’s not nice to walk.
From my point of view, this trail must be the most beautiful of the Peaks of the Balkans.
Be careful:
I start and finish in the hostels where I stay.
In Valbona center there’s a little market with some drinks, chips and biscuits.
Some of the old trails starting in Valbona are getting closed because they are building new hotels, houses, fences, paths… so do not follow my first steps in Valbona center. Just cross the bridge and torn right following a new path on the rocks of the river.
You can decide not to do the summit. In fact, if the weather is wet, I would not recommend to do it because the most part going up is on rocks, and they can be very slippery if they are wet. But in a sunny day, the summit is worth it!!!
The easiest trail going up from the moutain pass is starting going down, a little bit on the left. You will find the trail so fast (do not go directly going up as me because the pass is more dangerous).
From my point of view, this trail must be the most beautiful of the Peaks of the Balkans.
Be careful:
I start and finish in the hostels where I stay.
In Valbona center there’s a little market with some drinks, chips and biscuits.
Some of the old trails starting in Valbona are getting closed because they are building new hotels, houses, fences, paths… so do not follow my first steps in Valbona center. Just cross the bridge and torn right following a new path on the rocks of the river.
You can decide not to do the summit. In fact, if the weather is wet, I would not recommend to do it because the most part going up is on rocks, and they can be very slippery if they are wet. But in a sunny day, the summit is worth it!!!
The easiest trail going up from the moutain pass is starting going down, a little bit on the left. You will find the trail so fast (do not go directly going up as me because the pass is more dangerous).
Waypoints
Provisioning
River
Intersection
3,071 ft
The old and the new path
The upper path is the old one, and it was hard for me to start it. The one coming from the river is the new and easiest nowadays, so take this one!
Waypoint
3,533 ft
New antenna and path
From here on, the old way is preserved. Before of here, they made a new path to the antenna, and destroyed the old way.
Panorama
Intersection
4,905 ft
Intersection
Be careful. The sight is broken. The correct trail goes to the right, following up the valley.
Flora
Summit
Waypoint
6,014 ft
Carstic terrain
It’s a terrain full of “dolinas”, where the water flows down the way making caves inside the land.
Mountain pass
6,076 ft
Last higgest point
From here, the trail goes down until town. From here on, you leave Montenegro and enter to Albania again.
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