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SPRING 2009
- May 9th: Fagaras. I've read that some upgrade was done on Stan Valley
during 2008 so
I went to check the valley. It was the third time I climbed it but the trail
seemed much more dangerous to me than previous times; maybe the water level
from the small dam was flowing at a higher rate, maybe I got older... The
2008 upgrades are useful; some black ropes appeared as help in some difficult
places, two more logs, some ladders were remade and all the trail was marked
with plastic stripe. In
2006 I failed
to identify the upper exit from the valley but this time, also helped by
the description from the Natura Romaniei magazine
(year 2,
issue 10 - January 2009) I continued towards Calugarita and the southern
shore of the Vidraru lake .
Alone.
SPRING 2007
- May 5th: Fagaras. After seven months
here I am again at Valea lui Stan , this time in a trip
by public transport (train, train, van, van, thumb when going and
thumb, van, thumb, train when coming back - it was fun).
The valley is like last autumn beautiful... This time we only trekked to the
'Shoes Off' point, some minutes before the little dam which marks the end
of the alpine part of the valley.
I wasn't able to find much material on the Internet regarding Valea lui Stan
People: Radu Antonescu, Razvan Tudorica.
AUTUMN 2006
October 4th: Fagaras. I wasn't able to find much material on the Internet regarding Valea lui Stan
in the southern Fagaras range so I walked somehow into unknown territory...
and what I found there exceeded all my expectations! I consider this to be
one of the best trails in Romania - and I've seen quite a lot of them!
During the two-hour ascent (including breaks) the landscape is terribly wild
and the valley is either a quiet riverbed dotted with small rocks or
raging waterfalls. There are 8-10 metallic ladders and more cable handrails;
unfortunately they're quite damaged but on the other hand some kind people
repaired them recently in some spots. However the trail is dangerous and
I reccomend it only to the ones with a good sense of equilibrium; there are
some places where a wrong step will send you 10-20 meters lower in the river.
Towards the end there is a place when one has to go thru the river itself;
the water is more than knee-high.
Alone.
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