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After what might be the longest chain of changes of plan in history we ended up making our way to the northern lands of Bucovina for the Vatra Dornei Snow Festival. All that's left of "we" at the moment are me and Cipri but we're counting on our numbers increasing slightly over the next 2 days.
We tried out the new Gura Humorului slope today. It's about 1.5 km long but sadly it's one of the worst planned slopes I've ever seen. With a looong flat part right in the middle and two extremely steep parts towards the end it's only fit for advanced skiers and ends up being annoying even to them because of all the arm-work needed.
The ski lift takes 12-14 minutes to get to the top and is horribly boring. For some inexplicable reason they went for a Leitner ropeway with the chairs permanently attached to the cable which means the chairs move at constant speed both for loading and unloading and for the actual travel.
You can check out some photos from the slope on Picasa in the Gura Humorului album. The photos are geotagged so you can see exactly where the slope is in relation to Gura Humorului.
Also, this altitude profile generated out of one of our descents should give you a pretty accurate idea of what the slope is like.
We plan to spend Saturday and Sunday skiing in Vatra Dornei.
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