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From the summit, keep gently on along the ridge. You pass a memorial cross, then skirt north of a rocky peak before eventually uniting with a broad blue-blazed packhorse track. Climbing on along this, you then arrive at the saddle Kamennata Porta (2080m), some 20mins from the summit of Vezhen. From the saddle, the blue-blazed trail, known as the Klisurskata Pateka (‘the Klisura path’), drops southeast over the ridge bound for Klisura. However, you continue straight on east along the main ridge, skirting south of Kamenitsa (2104m).

After about 40mins, ignore the unmarked path that crosses over the ridge, and continue along the main trail, a wonderful ridge-walk skirting a succession of rocky outcrops. Some 15mins later you reach a col where there is a memorial below the path to the right. The trail now switches to the northern flank of the ridge and, after another 10mins, brings you to the Ribarishki Prohod (1735m), the highest pass in the Stara Planina.

Ignore a clear path that forks down left, and continue straight on along the red-blazed summer trail, first along the left flank of the ridge, then on the right flank, while the ridge itself gradually bends northeast. Eventually the path drops steeply, and after 15mins brings you to a col from which you then climb gently across the shoulder of the next peak. Finally, after 10mins you reach the saddle Golyam Vetroviti Prelsap (1570m), where you ignore the yellow-blazed summer path that cuts back on the right, bound for Klisura.