After we had cooked dinner using a gas burner, we decided to leave our heavy backpacks at the place of our future camp and go up without unnecessary things, since there is only one way to the top of the mountain and we will still return the way we climbed.
Part of our journey was through a forest, where many fungi resembling the fungi of the Lactarius family grew. All these mushrooms are conditionally edible mushrooms, but in Eastern European countries traditionally belong to the best mushrooms. Suitable for pickles and marinades, and their bitter taste can be eliminated by pre-boiling or soaking. But in Europe and North America, Lactarius is considered inedible or even poisonous because of this bitter taste. Due to the elaborate processing procedure, we did not collect these mushrooms, and none of us had ever eaten them before.
The spruce forest through which we walked to the top of the mountain grew on rocks. Due to the lack of soil, the roots of the trees grew on the surface of the stones and looked like a snake, which got out to warm up in the sun. Our trail went straight through this root.
After a while we reached the exit of the forest and decided to stop there and relax for a bit. This forest road is strewn with huge and flat stones, which are here called Gorganas. Because of this, this whole part of the Carpathians is also called the Gorgany. We stopped there for half an hour, to admire the incredible scenery that opened to us from this height. After each of us took a lot of photos, we went further up.
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