Vestibule at the top of gondola station Balea Lac. Two dead bodies in warm sleeping bags on the leather seats, ethanol haze. Uncompromising Romanian wake-up call and move to our base with a serious hangover in the backpack.About eight hours later, crawling out of the valley from the hut. And suddenly goes around Ticháčs´ snowboard followed in the snow by the owner. "Happy New Year, man!" Boys made nice kicker and just making a sunset private shredinng. So we met again. We went up the couloir which we covered by couple of nice lines before.

Good morning, here is Mr. Fog and I've come to introduce a cousin. I make fog, he is snowing. Adam was not in the mood for dating with those two guys, and so he stayed in a tent with a book. However, I told him that it is good to sleep with her. We are hiking up our well known couloir. Along our way we loose our friend Mr. Fog and and all his family and  nice sunny day welcomes us. Chilling, relaxation, testing receivers, transmitters, probes and shovels. A few rides surprisingly pleasant in the deep powder. Finally, we pick up water at dusk and climb seemingly endless valley, ending with a vertical hole leading to our tents. And here we are again in the evening visit. Fox sits outside the tent and looking sad scoring a bite to eat. So we put something for her to enjoy our dinner with us.Blue sky? Alaska face! Couloirs? And so we are hiking again towards the summit, which looks exactly like the films from AK. After hour and a half we are standing on the top. Finally, we have put together a picture of the possibilities of the surrounding terrain. And it's not bad at all, rather brilliant. Our line down is pretty long and full of possibilities. From the rocky powder labyrinths through slushy terraced slopes till the close and ice holes. In one of them I found a paper wrapper that yesterday was still stuck in an empty can. Was it a fox? After leaving the last couloirs we appear again before our tents, where roughly repeat the program  form yesterday.

But packing up the car and going home a little dejected. Along the way we had very well deserved, excellent dinner, and after a night crossing to Slovakia as a positive point for the expedition, snowy morning bath at hot pipes - unfortunately with a personal guard in the form of white old man in the car. Where are those romantic evenings in the tent? No staring at us from the heat through the windshield all the time, pervert. But what, maybe it was just a spa spirit.But you are not planing the end! It comes conveniently in the final, unfortunately, about 300m in the Czech Republic after the Slovak border and is a bit in freestyle. I did it half asleep at the snowy road and suddenly we had a car slide. Well, after a series of circles at the road there is a switch landing in a ditch. With the help of some very nice people, one jeep and two ropes, we took the car out from the hole and continue home. So I would like to thank to nice people and luck because I drove the car.

Well winter Romania did not disappoint us and still we are pretty sure we gonna get back there. So I can recommend it for sure! And finally, as occurred in our country, so maybe no need to go far for adventure. So wrap the bundle with a couple of cakes, plum brandy in the pocket and go! We look forward to tasting a plum magic somewhere in the mountains!!