37.06 Romania: Piatra Crailui Mountains: Cabana Curmatura, a Commencement Point.
A mother's dream position, one way of looking at it. Mountains block out the sun early in the late afternoon. We thought of introducing the Piatra Crailui Mountains by trying to get to the crux of the matter or in its case, some of the peaks. We’ll show more detail later but two hikes exhilarated us enormously; actually, they were thrilling, gave us pause for contemplation and rank as some of our finest experiences in mountain climbing rather than hiking. To reach Cabana Curmatura, we ascended some 2,350 feet and from that point, over the afternoon and the following morning, climbed the craggs to reach the ridges and peaks. We’ll go into more detail in follow through blogs. We spent the night in a cabana situate below the ridges. There are times that we walk around, whether in the mountains or towns, and wonder where we are. Sometimes it feels like we should pinch ourselves to determine whether we are dreaming. While not every day is ‘peaches and cream’, in fact, som...