Easter: Balea, Fagaras

In the Easter eve day we went in Balea for some free ride ;) The snow was perfect above 1800m and the weather was very very sunny ! Two days before some impressive avalanches have conquered the Balea lake surroundings ! There were no traces above the lake, toward Capra, so we've decided to stay safe and sky in Doamnei valley. Please enjoy the pictures, because we've enjoyed our ride very much :D

May Day: Morarul valley, Bucegi

Finally on the 1st of May I've remained around Brasov, and we got nice weather in order to do a valley in Bucegi. This time it was Morarul, the traditional yearly descent. This time the snow on the plateau was frozen enough in order to advance at a fast peace towards Omul: in less than 2 hours we were there :)



The window of "Cabana Omul"



This is the main entrance in the "cabana", totally under snow ! In fact I was staying there around without noticing this hole in the snow until the cabana keeper suddenly rise up from the snow ! It was quite a surprise !



The first glacial circus have got a very nice snow to ride down ! Then the snow was to wet to enjoy...








A lot of mountain goats were enjoying the scenery :D





It was enough snow to arrive up to the marked hiking trail at the end of the valley.



A "leurda" field, a very healthy plant !

La derdelus pe valea Priponului

So there was another weekend in a row in Busteni, taking the cable car up to Bucegi plateau.
This time, I got company from "derdelus.ro" team ;) and some other friends, six people in total.
The idea was to do Gaura valley, or Morarul valley. But from the very sunny and hot plateau we were seeing and hearing a lot of powerful avalanches going down the mountain. So we've taught that Morarul will be for another time, due to the high exposure of the valley to the snow running streams. We've took a decision and turned back from the "Ceardac" and headed towards "Priponului" valley which looked much more safe at that moment.
It was the second time for me to do this valley, two years after I was caught in a small avalanches right there. For my friends it was the first time. The snow was quite wet, spring time type, quite a big layer, but in may places the rocks were in open air. The descent was too short altought 800m level difference, and then on "Cerbului" valley the bedrock steps were quite difficult to cross on skis or snowboards.
Here are the photos and keep visiting http://www.derdelus.ro for more details.

Ecologizare: Tampa, Brasov

Cu ocazia zilei pamantului, ca in fiercare an, asociatia "Floare de Colt" din Brasov a organizat o actiune de ecologizare pe Tampa. http://www.floaredecolt.org/