Orlovets Peak
Orlovets Peak is located on the central Malyovitsa ridge, west of Zliya Zab. Between the two peaks is the Prozoretsa (Window) saddle, from which a scree begins to the north with a path leading to the Granitna Voda Shelter (BAK), and to the south the steep rocky couloir Siniya Ulei (the Blue Gully) descends, ending 1200 meters below, not far from Kirilova Polyana. The summit offers a view of…
Trails through this place
HardA trail to BAK, one of the true symbols of Bulgarian mountaineering, and to two of the peaks towering above the shelter - Kamilata and Orlovets. The trail to the Granitna Voda Shelter (the new BAK) presents no significant difficulty for a prepared hiker, but most of the peaks above the shelter are objectively dangerous, even though there are well-trodden paths leading to some of them.