Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Day 101: Forests and some road walk

There was a light drizzle this morning, so I turned around again for a bit. I followed the trail marking and was pleasantly surprised, when it went into my direction of the longer route. It was nice that most of todays hiking was in the forest and I saw 2 foxes! At first it was a really good trail, but I lost it twice in the meadows, always avoiding or being confrontated by dogs. No way to look around, go back or search for the correct trail. At those moments I just try to get away as fast as possible. And I did go the right direction, at least looking on my gpx tracks or trails on my map. In reality there were no trails! The first time it took me nearly an hour to accept, that (however hard I try) there is no trail and the map is wrong. The second time bushbashing was even more frustrating, knowing there is a beautiful trail out there somewhere... 

I made it to Ciobanis, getting rained on only once. From there there was no marked trail through the protected Nemira Lapos forest, but a big 4WD track. At least at the beginning. Again, I followed the gpx track, onto a path that got smaller and disappeared. At some point I found the big 4WD track again, partly completely blocked by trees.

In La Oclos, I followed a real (unpaved) road along a stream. There were some power plants once in a while. Since it looked like rain and I was not really willing to continue 8 km until a trail goes steeply off, I found a kind of protected campspot right at the road. While the last 2 h of road walk, there were only 3 cars passing me, there have been already 2 cars and there is one truck unloading something directly at my campspot... oh and the mosquitos are really bad!

Tomorrow it's supposed to rain, but I hope I can at least find a better campspot if I really have to spend some time in the tent.




My feet yesterday night, so I had s good wash today!

Still wet in the morning

Open landscapes just make better pictures ;)

Road walk along a stream




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