Bosnek 2021

Today, amid some forecasts for rain in the afternoon, we chose an easy hike on Vitosha, along one of our often frequented favourite trails - in the vicinity of the village of Bosnek. Following yesterday's heavy rains and under today's hot sun, the air was hot and humid, but after last week's cold exposure, we were carefully dressed with long trousers and hoodies in the backpacks and so we sweated profusely and laughed at our belated wariness. 

The hike was easy and pleasant, we had a picnic on the grass and enjoyed the quiet and solitude of the yellow grassy meadows.

Hike info:

Destination: Live Water Spring, Bosnek

Mountain: Vitosha

Total length: 9.5 km

Elevation gain: 190 m

Total duration (plus picnic and rests): 3 hours

Average difficulty: 2 / 10

Me-made items, worn on this hike:

Husband: boxers, Knip Mode Cargo Pants 06 / 2020 (to be blogged soon)

I: lingerie, Sabrina Slims

The Live water spring

 

 

Bosnek 2020

Sunday was warm and sunny and husband, Alex and I went to Bosnek - our favourite mountain trail during early autumn. We started fairly early in the morning and the grass was still wet from the morning dew, which made the hundreds of spider webs look jeweled. The trail is short, level and supereasy, but compensates with beauty and abundance of autumn fruits. There were also plenty of parasol mushrooms, but we never pick wild mushrooms, not worth the risk IMHO.

: The purple crocuses are already in bloom

:There were hundreds of webs in the grass

:This year cold weather came early, but the leaves are still predominantly green

Hike info:

Destination: Live Water Spring, Bosnek

Mountain: Vitosha

Total length: 9 km

Elevation gain: 100 m

Total duration (plus picnic and rests): 3 hours

Average difficulty: 1 / 10 

:Parasol mushrooms. The meat of such young unopened parasols is supposedly tasty:

:To my surprise these parasols are actually fairly large mushrooms

:In my new Plantain t-shirt. I'm not only sewing up a storm, but I'm consciously trying to wear most of my hand-made clothes

:We had our lunch on the sunny meadow by the watch tower

:The Live Water spring, one of the attractions of the trail. The area is karst, characterized by caves and water springs all over.

Bosnek in the Heat

Last autumn we visited Bosnek and found it to be one of the most beautiful places on Vitosha and the route to the Live Water spring - one of the most easy and pleasant paths in the mountain. And while in the autumn it was beautiful with the gold and fiery woods around, today it looked like a garden with its meadows covered with all kinds of wild flowers. Such a lovely place for a refreshing mountain hike, pity it's a bit far from home - at least an hour's drive.

The spring of Live Water, pouring plenty of water in the summer. It's cold and tasty:

The cave of Live Water. We could not find it last time - turned out we passed only 5 m away from it !! However none of us dared to enter into the dark hole :)) The cave is about 7 km long but there's no lighting or other facilities so entering is quite risky and impossible without a flashlight: 

The woods around the mineral spring were lush green this time:

The path runs along the Dobri Dol river, one of Struma's tributaries: