Monday, July 7, 2025

Peak Kupena 2025

Pictures from our hike from Aleko hut to peak Golyam Kupen and back along the same track on a very hot July day.



The stony slopes of peaks Golyam and Maluk Rezen 
Hike info:

Date: 04 July 2025 
Destination: Kupena hut
Mountain: Vitosha
Total length: 13.5 km
Elevation gain: 210 m
Total duration (plus picnic and rests): 4 and a half hours
Average difficulty: 4 / 10


Peak Golyam Kupen
Not the most pleasant of peaks of climb - a pile of gigantic ragged stones, actually

Finally on the peak, where we had our exquisitely delicious and still cold beer

Me-made items, worn on this hike:

Husband: boxers, Burda T-shirt
I: lingerie, Burda jeans pants

Views from the peak

Hut Kupena, at the foot of the peak, where we filled our bottle of water
Globe flowers, the emblematic flower of Vitosha


Peak Kupena from afar
Glimpse towards Sofia from the trail

Back at Aleko hut
A young doe in the forest

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