Our hike today on Vitosha bordered on an adventure, luckily without any challenges or dangers.
The day was very sunny and unusually warm for mid-November - over 20 C in Sofia!, and although I had to work in the afternoon, we decided to make the most of it and take a short hike on Vitosha. I had slept undisturbed through the night and had not noticed, that stormy winds had swept through the city.
As we started with the car, we noticed that the wind was stronger that usual, but not that dangerous - everybody was out and about their business, and so we continued up the mountain road to Zlatnite mostove. The asphalt lanes in the mountain we abundant with small twigs and leaves, but no fallen trees and we saw a bus come down the mountain, so we assumed the place was fairly safe.
The hike we had chosen as short and easy and we actually had a great time along the trails. There were lots of leaves and broken twigs and a few fallen big trees, but nothing worrying, as our hike was almost entirely through the woods and we were sheltered from the wind from the trees and hills. The only unmistakable sign of the unusual weather was the noise - a constant booming in the crown of the trees from the howling of the wind.
Hike info:
Date: 13 November 2026
Destination: peak Kopitoto (1345 m)
Mountain: Vitosha
Total length: 8 km
Elevation gain: 140 m
Total duration (plus picnic): about 2 hours
Average difficulty: 2 / 10
The strong wind had blown away all the smog over the city and the view was crystal clear.
Me-made items, worn on this hike:
Husband: men's boxers, socks, Burda hoodie, cargo pants
I: lingerie, Sinclair Lotte blouse, knitted raglan sweater, brown hat
We had our picnic on "our" usual bench, with a view to the city. This part of the mountain was a kind of sheltered and we were able to fully enjoy our tortillas, muffins and herbal tee without being blown away.
The round trail brought us by Momina skala meadow and back to Zlatnite mostove. As we got to the car, we were approached by a hiker, who asked us to take him down to the city, as the buses had been meanwhile cancelled. Soon we took a second hiker in and as we drove down, we found out, that for security reasons the road had been closed for cars, going up the mountain - I hope the few tourists, who had been left up managed to find cars to take them down, as we did with these two fellow hikers.
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