Bukmire, Kalivaç, Vig and Mnelë
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 28.09 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,379 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,409 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,371 ft
- TrailRank
-
51
3.8
- Min elevation
- 94 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 5 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1285
- Uploaded
- June 1, 2014
- Recorded
- May 2014
near Ndërfushaz, Lezhë (Albania)
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Itinerary description
A light offroad drive for a morning or an afternoon, unless you want to spend more time for a picnic or enjoying the views along the trail. We would have rated the trail as easy, if there wouldn't be a short difficult spot.
The only real difficult stretch is 3 kilometer long between waypoint 09-Ford and 11-Fork. It seems to be little used. It starts with steep and badly eroded inclines up to waypoint 10-Sukaxhi, and finishes with a rather level but soft (when wet) and deeply rutted piece. The good thing is that you know it will be short, and that the trail will be better thereafter!
This stretch can be avoided by turning left at waypoint 06-Fork to Ungrej, and taking a right later back to waypoint 11, to join our trail. We haven't taken this alternative, but presume that there is more traffic towards and from Ungrej than on our shortcut.
The trail starts at the highway in Rreshen, and ends near Vau-Dejes, near Shkodra.
Bukmirë is ia bucolic village, where wine is grown and life seems to be good - at least according to Fatos Baxhaku in his book Në Mirditë & rreth e rrotull. Apparently, there is plenty of water for irrigation. From there, the landscape becomes more rugged, but you will pass homesteads every few kilometers.
Naturally, road quality is worse about in the middle of the trail, near Sukaxhi. Once back on the road connecting Ungrej with Kalivac, the road is generally well maintained, and some effort was made to improve the bridges.
Near Vig and Mnelë, you are close to the east side (or backside) of Mali i Hajmelit, which looks dramatic from here. Once you complete your drive, you may consider having something to eat at the Mrisi Zanave restaurant in Fishte village (south at the junction where the trail ends), though it may be difficult to secure a place on a weekend without reservations.
The only real difficult stretch is 3 kilometer long between waypoint 09-Ford and 11-Fork. It seems to be little used. It starts with steep and badly eroded inclines up to waypoint 10-Sukaxhi, and finishes with a rather level but soft (when wet) and deeply rutted piece. The good thing is that you know it will be short, and that the trail will be better thereafter!
This stretch can be avoided by turning left at waypoint 06-Fork to Ungrej, and taking a right later back to waypoint 11, to join our trail. We haven't taken this alternative, but presume that there is more traffic towards and from Ungrej than on our shortcut.
The trail starts at the highway in Rreshen, and ends near Vau-Dejes, near Shkodra.
Bukmirë is ia bucolic village, where wine is grown and life seems to be good - at least according to Fatos Baxhaku in his book Në Mirditë & rreth e rrotull. Apparently, there is plenty of water for irrigation. From there, the landscape becomes more rugged, but you will pass homesteads every few kilometers.
Naturally, road quality is worse about in the middle of the trail, near Sukaxhi. Once back on the road connecting Ungrej with Kalivac, the road is generally well maintained, and some effort was made to improve the bridges.
Near Vig and Mnelë, you are close to the east side (or backside) of Mali i Hajmelit, which looks dramatic from here. Once you complete your drive, you may consider having something to eat at the Mrisi Zanave restaurant in Fishte village (south at the junction where the trail ends), though it may be difficult to secure a place on a weekend without reservations.
Waypoints
Bridge
351 ft
02-Bridge
31-MAY-14 14:14:48
Waypoint
1,207 ft
03-Bukmire
31-MAY-14 14:38:01
Intersection
1,129 ft
04-Fork
31-MAY-14 14:42:52
Intersection
725 ft
05-Fork
31-MAY-14 14:49:36
Intersection
761 ft
06-Fork to U
31-MAY-14 15:05:09
Bridge
889 ft
08-Bridge
31-MAY-14 15:18:18
River
896 ft
09-Ford
31-MAY-14 15:22:37
Waypoint
1,132 ft
10-Sukaxhi
Sukaxhi
Intersection
1,050 ft
11-Fork to U
31-MAY-14 15:38:18
Bridge
728 ft
12-Bridge
31-MAY-14 15:45:33
Intersection
643 ft
13-Fork
31-MAY-14 15:49:34
River
377 ft
16-Ford
31-MAY-14 16:24:41
Intersection
394 ft
17-Fork
31-MAY-14 16:26:19
Bridge
295 ft
18-Bridge
31-MAY-14 16:35:16
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Thank you very much for posting all of these nice hiking and offroad trails. We will do some of them in September. Somebody else there in September?
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Most of this trail was easy. But there was one uphill that was very tricky and dangerous, especially after rain. Water drilled one meter deep whole between lines. Second a bit tricky part was a road/ river. Water was running over the road, up to 50 cm deep.
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On the begining of the trail, there Is the new dam. The trail Is under the water. There Is only possibility to join this trail in the middle
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I agree with last review. We did the trail in opposite way with Sprinter 4x4. Before dam we had to turn around and go back.
One needs to keep in mind the date of publication of any trails. The trail was created in 2014 (9 years ago). Countries such as Albania are developing fast, roads are being upgraded and other infrastructure has been built. Likewise, some prevously existing trails may have been abandonned, often in favour of an alternative 'better' road. t is always good to check thelatest google earth images of any planned road.