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Vf. Netedu, July 2016

A silly little challenge: starting on the plains, climb a long ridge and see how high into the Fagaras mountains we could reach in a day hike. The answer: we summited Vf. Netedu, overlooking Balea Lac.
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View from our starting point.


The trail starts along a road

The road narrows

And narrows further

Transfagaras highway

Hare-bells
Campanula sp.


Approaching treeline

View back to the plain

Fireweed

Knotweed

Narrow trail

Scrub-pines

Pinus montana





Unidentified




Rhododendron sp.


Cinquefoil
Potentilla heptaphylla


Campanula alpina?








Summit of Netedu, with Vanatorea lui Buteanu in the background (left of center)

Muchia Buteanu


Balea Lac

Viola sp.?



Sheep on the road