Mountain trails · The Obcini of Bucovina

Pasul Boului – Obcina Feredeului Peak – Pașcanu Peak – Feredeu Peak – clearing at the springs of the Benia

Waymarkingred stripe
EffortVery high
TechnicalModerate
TypeTraverse A → B
Duration8–10 hours
Ascent+450 m

A linear trail: you start in one place and finish in another. Either walk back the same way, leave a car at the far end or use the train/a transfer; we'll tell you at the gate what works.

Daylight · Pasul Boului · today,

  • Sunrise 07:07
  • Sunset 16:57
  • Daylight 9 h 49 min −3 min vs yesterday

The times are for the starting point. Between ridges the light goes earlier than the clock says, so turn back a good hour before sunset.

Weather · Pasul Boului · today,

6° min -2° cloudy
  • Precipitation0%
  • Wind7 km/h · gusts 17
  • UV index2,6
  • Elevation981 m
  • Fri 5° -2°
  • Sat 2° -4°
  • Sun 8° -5°
  • Mon 7° -0°
  • Tue 8° -4°

The forecast is for where you set off. Up on the ridge, count on a few degrees less and on wind you cannot see from below.

What the walking is like

The crest of Obcina Feredeu, between Pasul Boului and the springs of the Benia: a long day on the ridge, with little elevation gain and views to Obcina Mestecăniș and Rarău. Hay meadows, spruce and beech forests, quiet.

Mountain trail

  1. Pasul Boului · 1,040 m
  2. Obcina Feredeului Peak · 1,364 m
  3. Pașcanu Peak · 1,479 m
  4. Feredeu Peak · 1,477 m
  5. Springs of the Benia · 1,250 m

What we'd tell you at the gate

  • A long day, but no technical effort: good for those who want kilometres, not climbing.

Elevation profile

1,040 m1,479 m
Pasul Boului (landmark: Moldova-Sulița, centre; the pass is on the road between Breaza and Moldova-Sulița, at 1,040 m)+450 m of ascent · 8–10 hours

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What else you can do on the trail

  • 🐴 The Lucina stud farm, with its Hutsul horses, right below Lucina Peak.
  • Mountain biking on the ridge tracks and the Tatars' Road.
  • The Palma zipline, at Ciumârna Pass.

What grows and what moves along the trail

Flora

  • beech, sycamore and spruce mixed
  • mown hay meadows, with wildflowers until July
  • raspberry and blackberry at the forest edges
  • crocuses in the clearings, in autumn

Fauna

  • roe deer and red deer in the hay meadows, in the morning
  • Hutsul horses at the Lucina stud farm
  • buzzard, kestrel and woodpeckers
  • bear and wolf present, rarely seen

The species above are those documented in the area by the protected-area administration; what you see depends on season, hour and luck.

How long it takes, honestly

A multi-day linear trail: the time is for the whole route A → B, in two or three stages, with a tent or with guesthouses in the villages along the way. The duration is the one in Suceava County's official guide (Salvamont); the kilometres and driving minutes to the trailhead are from Google Maps.

  • 8–10 hoursone way, A to B, at your usual pace
  • n/aback the same way (estimate)
  • 8–10 hoursout and back, with short breaks
  • 13–15 hoursone way, if you stop for photos and eat on the grass
  • 15–18 hoursone way, with children, grandparents or a pack full of “just in case”

Sleep at the foot of the mountain

Start from the gate, not from a car park

La Cuib is 44 minutes by car from the start of this trail: a fully equipped kitchen that is yours from first light, a place to dry boots, a garden for the evening. Three nights, the whole house, 1.797 lei.

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Once you're back down

Sleep twenty minutes from the trail.

The whole house is yours: wet boots by the door, packs in the hall, a late dinner. Parking in the yard and an early start, without waking anyone.

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