High Scardus Trail Stage 06 Kobilica Hut/ Vejce - Veshala

The first 15 minutes of this stage are identical to the previous stage from Gornje Lubinje: you walk from the hut along the road eastwards for 50 m and there turn left onto the path that leads along the pasture up past a walled-in overhanging rock. Shortly after (but still before a fountain) you leave the path of the previous stage and turn left onto an indistinct marked trail that takes you ever so slightly up the slopes below the summit of Kobilica until you reach a little distinctive saddle with a fountain.

The start from the saddle is not easy to find, since there are some paths: You climb slightly downhill for a short while and then choose a climb that crosses the slope to the right below rocks until you reach another ridge. On the other side you continue on a path through a valley and on the other side of the valley you must not miss to leave the obvious path: You now climb without a path keeping left through meadows slightly uphill to a pronounced crest, where you again meet a path. At this point, the first shortcut branches off directly down to Veshala, which lies deep below you - but you follow the more pronounced trail uphill to the right. It soon becomes a marked track and you are now on an ancient trade route between Prizren and Tetovo - there was even an attempt in the 1920s to make the path passable for horse-drawn vehicles, but this was never completed and is now completely overgrown again. You follow this route (or what is still visible of it) always slightly ascending or later on the same level crossing the increasingly flatter slopes to the west until you reach the Upper Sharr Pass.

Upper and Lower Sharr Pass together form an extremely wide grassy saddle on the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia. From the Upper Sharr Pass you don't hike down into Kosovo, but directly on the border over the wide grassy ridge to the Lower Sharr Pass. Here you meet again a path: by taking the path down to the left you could shorten the next part of the High Scardus Trail across the lake and meet again the original route in the valley further down. However, you simply cross the trail and follow the tracks straight ahead. After a short ascent you will reach a small valley, over which you - always heading for the summit of Skarpa - reach the beautiful remote mountain lake Karanikolichko Ezero.

Now, on the left (eastern) bank, go up the embankment for 5 m: here the paths to Veshala and Bozovce separate. Follow the little marked path to the left through a kind of valley down towards Veshala. After a short time you will reach an impressive natural rock bridge and a few minutes below you must not miss a turnoff through the meadows to the left (you ignore a path that continues along the right side of the valley). You cross more or less pathlessly the meadow slopes downhill to the left until you meet the path (mentioned shortcut) that leads down from the Lower Sharr Pass. Follow this trail on the left side of the valley until it widens at a small alpine pasture to a mountain road. Follow this alpine road down to the village of Veshala - the official end point of the stage is on the left at the entrance road to Tetovo.