High Scardus Trail Stage 12 Grama - Rabdisht

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Rabdisht

There are two different possibilities to start this stage, depending where you stay overnight: First possibility: You start at the huts on the plateau of Grama near the reservoir. From here, you follow the High Scardus Trail on the plateau. First without any ascent, after one hour the path start to gain altitude in a gentle way. Finally you will enter an impressive mountain basin, where the path from the Korabi Mounatin Camping site is joining in. The second possibility is to start from Korabi Mountain Camping. From here, you hike further up the valley, following the right course of the stream. Finally, the clearly visible path leads quite steeply up to a prominent edge of the terrain, where an impressive view of a mountain basin opens up to you. Here the main trail from the Grama plateau is joinig in, as mentioned above. From now on, the path is quite flat again and finally turns west into the large cirque. Immediately at the end of the valley the path leads you to the right (Northwest) and again more steeply uphill to cross a total of three small mountain passes in a very attractive route. Fascinating views open up here again and again, especially of the Korab Mountains, whereby the path finally leads relatively flat onto a high plateau. Shortly before the actual mountain ridge you pass one of the rows of bunkers on the Albanian - Macedonian border at 2330m - a testimony to the history of the Cold War. On the ridge, a breathtaking low view opens up, especially on the mountain villages of Albania. From the top of the ridge, a good path leads you to a very steep terrain at the foot of Grama Peak. This path makes it possible to climb the steep terrain and leads in a seemingly endless zigzag down the steep grassy slope. At the foot of the steep slope, where the terrain flattens out a bit, there is a prominent turnoff to the left while the zigzag path continues down into the valley to the village Cerjan. However, you follow the branching off path, which leads in a very beautiful terrain alternately in alpine soils and crossing steeper flanks to a striking saddle called „Shkrtec“ (2.015m). Shortly before this saddle, the trail turns again to the southeast and descends sharply over several terrain steps until the turnoff from the main trail to the mountain village of Zagrad. Here the trail descends more steeply and soon enters a shady beech forest. The trail now descends steeply for about 800 meters, alternating between beech forests and farmland. After reaching the idyllic mountain village of Zagrad, you continue to follow the path, which now leads in the compass direction Southwest and crosses a striking terrain ridge, which consists of white shell limestone, on a very beautiful cart track. Soon there is a magnificent view of the mountain village of Rabdisht, which lies amidst fertile fields. In the center of the tightly built stone village is then the destination of the stage, the guesthouse Sabriu.