Marmarosy. Climbing Pop Ivan

The group gathers at the Ivano-Frankivsk station around 9 am. We have a rather long journey ahead of us to Transcarpathia, to the village of Delovoe (altitude 350 m), known as the “geographical center of Europe”. There we check in at the border post, put on our backpacks and begin our climb into the mountains. We walk through the forest, along the White Potok River. At an altitude of about 910 m we cross the river for the last time and then our paths diverge. We climb the Marmaroshsky ridge and camp on the Lisich meadow (1470 m). As you can see, in a day we have to gain more than 1000 meters of altitude, which is quite a lot.

The tents remain in the clearing, and we walk to the top almost lightly. We take raincoats, lunch snacks and water with us. The top of the Pop Ivan Marmaroshsky peak (1936 m) is just over 2 km in a straight line. But you can’t really run in the mountains, so the climb will take several hours. If the weather permits, we will have lunch not far from the top. We take pictures on the Romanian-Ukrainian border - it runs right along the mountain ridge. In the evening we go down to our camp on the Lisich meadow.

We will return to civilization along a different path. First, let's look at the Berlebashka peak (1734 m), and then continue our descent along the Scevora ridge (1466 m). Soon after its top and several valleys we will turn south to pass through the Yalinsky waterfall. Its height is about 25 m, but the flow is strong only after rain. We go down to the already familiar road near the White Stream and return to the village of Delovoe. We will arrive in Ivano-Frankivsk no earlier than 21:00 in the evening.