
Musala Pathway
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
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About the Musala Pathway trail
Musala Pathway gains 5,108 feet across 7.5 miles of out-and-back in National Park Rila, its elevation running from 4,411 feet up to 9,516 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 33 percent, against an average of 681 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Samokov, 11 miles away.
The trail
Musala (Bulgarian: Мусала [mosɐˈɫa]; from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: from Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer") is the highest peak in the Rila Mountains, as well as in Bulgaria and the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925.42 metres (9,597.8 ft). With a topographic prominence of 2,473 metres (8,114 ft), Musala is also the 6th highest peak by topographic prominence in mainland Europe.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Borovets climbing sitemi 1.0
- Ledenoto Ezeromi 6.9
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
Questions about the Musala Pathway print
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Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.