Yes, we haven’t found time to mention any of our tours since Homolje Gold Rush this past spring – and there’s been some… 12 or 13 of them inbetween, if we count both the official and unofficial ones. We’ve been in Serbia (all over), Romania and Montenegro, and that won’t be the end of the list. So let’s make just a quick run through the places we’ve visited in 2016. But first…

The video from the Serbian Snow Adventure we owe you. Almost 8 months delayed, but better late than never 🙂 With a bit of luck, the rest of the video material from this season will be processed as the new winter approaches. So here it is, enjoy! 😎

Huh, that was really intense, wasn’t it? And where have we been doing during the spring and summer season?

Western Serbia

There has actually been a lot of activity in western Serbia this year – both scouting, and guiding official tours. And a lot of memorable moments. Lets take a look at some pictures…

Scouting…

On Zlatibor mountain

Vraneša ethno-hotel

The beginning of Uvac lake

Zlatibor plains

The famous Molitva scenic view

Water level is still high

Above the black Rzav river

A griffon vulture nesting

Inside the Ice Cave

Zlatar lake

Two vultures flying together

Springtime sunset on Zlatibor

Unexpected joy of camping

Weather was hectic as usual for serbian springtime – a lot of clear skies, but also streaks of rainy days, with quite severe thunderstorms, strong winds, and pouring water in the forests afterwards. Deep into June we wondered when is that instability going to end. And, of course, it was mostly muddy, which is standard for that time of year. And that is exactly what our two groups that came first wanted. First came the NO JEEP NO FUN team…

On the Kukavica ridge

An attractive scenic view near Bzovik

In the mud of Golija mountain

By the Okruglica lake

Having fun on Kopaonik

Opening the swimming season at Golijski konaci

On Kopaonik ridges

Climbing the peaks of Golija

Conquering Kopaonik forests

By the Jelovarnik waterfall

A fantastic place to rest on Kopaonik

On the Green pastures of Golija

The marshlands of Golija

…followed directly by the STRONGBOL guys

Crossing the Black Rzav

Across the Jadovnik plateau

The trail is becoming a bit technical…

A tricky stream crossing on Zlatar

On a scenic viewpoint above the Uvac river

Katunić peak on Jadovnik

Leaving the Markova Ravan campsite

Over Jadovnik mountain

Romania (Carpathian mountains)

Parallel to the activities in western Serbia, lots of scouting was going on in Romania in springtime. And with exactly the same problems like in Serbia. Heavy rain, day after day, made the first scouting tour in May only half as effective as it should have been. So we had to return a month later, after the weather has (more or less) stabilized, to complete the job.

A lot of horsepower

Travelling towards Muntele Mare

Scenic views along the Bihor ridge

Returned to the Apusenis in June – Poiana Glavoi

Descending into the Scarisoara cave

One of the wind generators on Cucurbata Mare

First camping in the Apusenis in May

Camping on the Bihor ridge

On a scenic point above Rosia Montana

A charming river valley

On the way to the peak of Cucurbata Mare

In the heart of the Apuseni mountains

A nice picnic site on the way to Muntele Mare

Inside the Scarisoara cave

Then came the summer, and the first official tour in Romania, Transylvania 2016. It took place in the west Carpathians, on some of the terrains where we were connecting loose ends in May and June. It was a great tour, although we’ve had several last minute dropouts, so what initially was supposed to be overbooked turned out to be a small, discrete company in the end.

Camping on Bihor

Sheep on Muntele Mare

A forest road leading to Semenic

The nice picnic spot near Poiana Horea

In the heart of Semenic forests

On the Cucurbata Mare ridge

Technical challenges already on the first day

One of the camps

Cucurbata Mare ridge with the windmills

In the Apuseni NP forests

Mud in abundance

A descent in the Poiana Ruskai mountains

Taul Mare campsite

The “main” Romanian tour, featuring the majestic south Carpathians, didn’t come before September this year. A little late, many would say, but actually it turned out as a perfect tour, with the most stable and sunny weather of them all! Only 12 hours of rain in 7 days is something even a mid-summer tour could only desire.

In the overwhelming beauty of the south Carpathian landscape it’s not easy to make a compact image collection from the tour, but I’ve made an attempt to do it…

Camping on one of the Fagaras ridges

“Lost” in the big open spaces

Beyond the Preslop 2 see-saw

On the Lotrului mountains

A peak in the Lotrului mountains

On the Tarcu ridge

Climbing the Capetanii mountains

Over the Transalpina road

In the Fagaras mountains

An evening by the Cheia lodge

A view down to the Cheia canyon

So, do we wind up the springtime / summer season of 2016 with Romania? Certainly not! Lets go on to the next page to see what Eastern Serbia and Montenegro gave us this year!

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