RilaMusala Climber's Log
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| bobbyfm | normal route  Date Climbed: Dec 9, 2005 | |
| normal route from Borovetc, just after celebrating the students day previous night :) been up there several times :) | |
| Posted Mar 22, 2013 7:59 am | ||
| Andrey Pramatarov | All sides Date Climbed: Jan 9, 2007 | |
| Climbing Musala is challenging in winter conditions - the Irechek - Aleko traverse, | |
| Posted Feb 14, 2013 7:31 am | ||
| atavist | 9 hrs rt including hr on summit Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2012 | |
| Took a bus to Borovets from Plovdiv in the morning so I had a late start at 11:30 for the walk. I ascended via main road/trail and descended the ridge to tag Little Musala, Irecek and the other peaks along the way (both routes described on the parent page). The day was capped by meeting some cool residents of Sofia and an awesome Bulgarian dinner. | |
| Posted Sep 10, 2012 4:08 am | ||
| nothingmaster | Who loves to freeze? Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2007 | |
| My first Musala accent was on 2nd of January 2007. Me and friends, we slept in a tent on the peak, cause the refugee there was a bit expensive for us ^_^! The wind was absolutely COLD, but I managed to sleep a few hours... | |
| Posted Jan 19, 2012 6:15 pm | ||
| PUCHMAN | Balkan trip. Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2001 | |
| from borovec Hikking all Ri?a and Piryn. | |
| Posted Nov 19, 2011 5:23 pm | ||
| Andrew Rankine | One of the longest days on the trail Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2011 | |
| This is one to remember. Drove from Midzor, where the border police stopped our ascent the day before. Wanted to climb Musala by taking the chairlift up, which would make the climb 2000 feet or so of gain and 7 miles. The chairlift was being repaired, so the hike became 20 miles from the hotel in Borovets and 5600 feet or so of gain. There was snow and it was cold. It was foggy the entire time, until the sun came out for 10 minutes. It was beautiful. Then it rained for three hours on the descent. 1.5 liters of bitter lemon and 1.5 mixed grills were well deserved after this one. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2011 1:31 pm | ||
| Batistuta | Normal Route Date Climbed: Dec 16, 2006 | |
| I climbed Musala for the first time the winter 2006/07, it was a very beautiful sunny day, no wind, a lot of snow, and arround 100 climbers at the top. | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2011 2:32 pm | ||
| SzaniUherkovich | During a business meeting Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2010 | |
| I work in an international team at our company. We had to have a physical team meeting somewhere in Central or in Eastern Europe. I participated in the organization of the meeting, and finally managed to have it in Borovets, in the Rila mountains. Some of the "poor" participants had to travel there from England and from Moscow, but we had a local Bulgarian, too. The agenda of the meeting gave me a 6 hours long free slot in one afternoon. I utilized it for visiting Musala. 3 hours quick walk from Borovec up to the peak, practically with no break. 30 minutes rest up on the peak. 2.5 hours for returning to Borovec. 23 km walk in total. I wanted this peak since my age 15. Big thanks for the company I work for who indirectly sponsered this trip | |
| Posted Jul 17, 2010 8:50 am | ||
| wolf2001 | Normal Route Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2005 | |
| We ascent from Borovat, stayed one night at the first chalet-i don't remember the name, and in the morning, go up to the summit Musala. It was a easy hike, very beautiful. | |
| Posted Jul 6, 2010 5:09 am | ||
| Joerg Marretsch | Borovec - Musala Date Climbed: May 30, 2009 | |
| Easy, long and lonely walk over the Musala pathway. Snow at the upper region. Storm and hail at the summit. Nice region. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2009 11:57 am | ||
| andreeacorodeanu | Normal route Date Climbed: Dec 1, 2008 | |
| Was a nice climb, easy. Nice was when we arrived in the evening and we asked the guy from the meteo station to sleep there cause the shelter was closed. He was so kind and nice with us. We felt so good there in a nice company. | |
| Posted May 11, 2009 9:21 am | ||
| Thomas Gurviez | normal route Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2008 | |
| Cloudy and cold weather, hike from the top of the lift to the summit in 1h30.. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2008 1:39 pm | ||
| yatsek | in 1977, up the valley | |
| from Borovec, stayed at the shelter by the tarn for one day, got to the top of Malka Musala (then Dymitrov)- pleasant ascent along the ridge on the other side of the tarn (a bit of scrambling/easy climbing), no marks; next morn backpacked to the main summit, then across Rila and Pirin | |
| Posted Aug 27, 2008 2:56 pm | ||
| MegasAlexandros | Normal Route | |
| First time was in summer 2001 but I cheated by taking cable cart to Jastrebec and the rest was a piece of cake! In July 2007 I walked up from Borovetz and weather conditions weren't all that great - cold and I was dressed a bit too optimistically. Anyway, I made it to the summit around 5 in the afternoon having started from Sofia in early morning. | |
| Posted Mar 29, 2008 8:37 am | ||
| yamesu | Borovec-Musala Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2007 | |
| Normal route and back to Bucharest in the evening | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2007 11:56 am | ||
| Balazs Halmos | Sleepwalkers on top Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2007 | |
| 5 members of Szentendre Sleepwalkers baseball team from Hungary climbed the summit on a beautiful day on the normal route from Borovec before taking part on a tournament in Blagoevgrad. We did it in 5 hours up though having also inexperienced hikers with us. Huts still derelict in early June but the station on the summit was attended. | |
| Posted Jul 2, 2007 2:22 pm | ||
| pauli82 | normal route Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2003 | |
| from Borovec and via Musala hut | |
| Posted Dec 28, 2006 10:37 am | ||
| spellbinder | normal Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2005 | |
| from borovec overnight stay at the top nice adventure | |
| Posted Apr 26, 2006 12:10 pm | ||
| taikavuorimies | Route Climbed: Normal summer trail Date Climbed: June 2005 | |
| The day was quiet and sunny but not too warm at this altitude. There was still a lot of snow on the summer trail and the upper lakes in the cirque were still frozen. | ||
| Posted Jan 12, 2006 2:12 pm | ||
| pvalchev | Route Climbed: normal Date Climbed: July 4 2005 | |
| The forecast showed a nice break in the weather (the summer of 2005 had a lot of rain) and I decided not to wait further, heading to Borovetz in the early morning. It was a very pleasant day with nice views from the top, about 6 hours round trip, hiking the trail from Borovetz with a nice lunch at the hut. It was good to do some hiking again in the mountains that I've grown up in! | |
| Posted Jan 2, 2006 3:35 pm | ||
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