Lazarow World-Hike-About: 60.40 Bulgaria, Pamporovo: Head toward the Dam, visit Orpheus again and onto other side of Snezhanka. 60.41 Mount Murgavets, Orpheus Rocks (hmm!) and down to Studenetz.

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

Tenerife, Spain: Looking back to check that our car is safe.

'LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIKE-ABOUT?'

Hike-about is an adventure that commenced June 2010. After storing our household movables, ridding ourselves of a house but retaining our 'home' together, we set off with the purpose of hiking in different parts of the world, not forgetting the home country, the USA.

Our primary focus is hiking to mountain peaks but any challenging hike will do just fine. Extended stays enable us to enjoy and experience living in various places amongst differing cultures. Hike-about has evolved into a way of life. It's also a process of discovery, both the world and ourselves.

We work and live 'on the road' but return to the city in which our grandchildren reside, every couple of months. This provides us the wonderful opportunity to be with them as well as a child or two, even three and of course, friends.

By the end of 2023, the blog contained over 1,560 hikes (less than that actually undertaken), each a set of pictures with stories and anecdotes from the trails. An index to the right allows the viewer to identify earlier experiences.

Finally, we are often asked about the journey's end. Our reply, as accurate as we can state, is: "When we are either forced to cease through health issues or the enjoyment level no longer reaches our aspirations, we will hang up the boots."

"A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize the Day Together", published by Fulton Books, depicts our life on the road and mountains until the beginning of 2017. It has developed 'exponentially' since then.

Jenni and Jeffrey Lazarow

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Thursday, November 9, 2023

60.40 Bulgaria, Pamporovo: Head toward the Dam, visit Orpheus again and onto other side of Snezhanka. 60.41 Mount Murgavets, Orpheus Rocks (hmm!) and down to Studenetz.

We reach the dam and then head through the trees toward the Snezhanka Tower via Orpheus Rocks and down a ski slope on the other side of the mountain. Notice the slight reflection of the tower on the surface...very 'proud' of that but then again, it's the low expectations syndrome surfacing.

A view from somewhere on the lesser mountain but an enjoyable sight.

The old story: The higher one climbs, the more impressive the sights.

Jen approaches a ski slope. The colors are beginning to show which is wonderful and from then it only improved, almost exponentially.

Our 'home' is to the right and lower than the village/ski action station below. It was a magnificent stay so we returned 8 days after our first departure. Maybe that's why we passed Orpheus Rocks so often. Once a person is so close, how can one not go climbing.

A view from the rocks...with a 'few' trees showing...nicely?

A view of the rocks, inter alia.

A serene view toward Smolyan. See below (Caption AA) of a view from the lake below toward Orpheus Rocks (reciprocal view).

Exploring the rocks with some interesting edges. The drop in the front is relatively small, on the other side of the narrow top, massive.

Last week we displayed a blog showing the military base we passed at a mountain top, actually the highest of the Rhodopes. In the distance on the summit, the buildings are visible (the dome is prominent).

Always trees and scattered buildings within the forests. Notice the national flag.

Another slope, another view of Snezhanka Tower.

Mount Murgavets Peak, short and sweet and some sweat.

Stepping it out on the way down from Murgavets.

(AA from above) Taken from Smolyan Lakes of Orpheus Rocks.

An invigorating sight as we go around the lake, up and down Murgavets and then up to Snezhanka.

A fair perspective of Pamporovo, a delightful town in the Rhodope Mountains, not far from Greece.

Jen climbs through the bush and up the rock-face to reach a high point.

Another view of the attractive building shown earlier which appears hidden in the trees.

Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

Lazarow World-Hike-About