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A couple of minutes beyond that, the dirt road makes a sharp bend left, crossing a bridge at the confluence of the Dalboko Dere (Dyasna Reka) and Ravna Reka (Lyava Reka) to enter the national park. Although it is now possible to save 5mins by climbing straight up and cutting off a bend, the easiest thing with a large pack is simply to stay on the main track and follow it on as it hairpins up and round. The important junction comes about 15mins later, when the track bends sharp right over a second bridge. Here you finally leave the track behind for good by keeping straight on along the green-blazed trail into the forest on the true right bank of the Ravna Reka.

Walking through the ancient beech forests of the Boatin Reserve

The trail, overgrown in places with brambles and nettles, follows what resembles an old track, but after a little over 10mins the stony track bends right to ford the river, and you keep left, following a faintly marked green-blazed path. This makes a very steep and stony zigzag climb, before dropping back down towards the river near a pretty forest pool after about 10mins. Some 5mins later you will come to an old, rather incongruous, drag-lift sign on a tree within a deep forest gully. Here fork up left, climbing a stony path still on the true right bank of the stream.