High Scardus Trail Stage 10 Strezimir - Radomirë

From the three wooden huts at the start of the stages you hike up to the visible large abandoned building. To the left of it begins the marked trail towards Korab. Soon you will reach a gravel road again, follow it through a bend and immediately turn right again onto the marked trail. Follow this trail for quite a while through the wooded valley, reach the gravel road again and continue uphill.

Below an alpine pasture you finally leave the gravel road and follow the hiking trail to the left past the alpine hut. The trail is very well marked with poles and you reach a saddle over a ridge. A short steep climb takes you along the hiking trail over alpine pastures and through valleys to the slopes below the summit of Korab. Over a somewhat steeper slope you reach the summit ridge of Korab. Here the trail splits: to the left, the trail leads briefly over the ridge and then down to Radomirë, while to the right, over the ridge, you reach the striking summit pyramid of the 2,764 m high Korab in 15 minutes without major difficulty. You have reached the highest point of the Western Balkans and of course of the High Scardus Trail! If the weather is good, the view from here is breathtaking!

Until you reach the fork in the path described above, you hike back the same way over the summit ridge. At the fork in the trail, however, you now keep straight ahead. Shortly along the ridge, very briefly a little up. Then, however, you must not miss the path that is poorly visible at the beginning, which crosses the slopes down to the right. You will briefly reach another notch in the summit ridge and from there you will descend along the marked path into the huge cirque that leads down to Radomirë. The somewhat rocky cirque at the beginning becomes flatter and flatter and you descend, keeping slightly to the right, to an altitude of 2,000 m above sea level. Here you turn sharply to the left (beware that the tracks also lead straight ahead) and cross a flat area on the left.

Then follow the trail downhill again, keep slightly left at a flatter spot (trail tracks also lead straight ahead), cross a stream and enter a forest. Continue down the rough gravel path until you see Radomirë. Now you have almost made it and in another 15 minutes you will reach your stage destination Radomirë via the hiking trail.