Matkov Kot partial hike

At the end the scenic road was a trail up the next valley over from where we hiked in Sunday (Matkov Kot). I thought I had read there was a giant hole in a rock you could hike up to pretty easily so we thought why not? The hike was really easy up through the valley, though it was still humid so it was warm once we started moving. Not as bad as the other days, but I was better prepared and wore my hiking dress which is light and airy so that was perfect. We stopped and ate lunch and enjoyed the views of the mountains and I looked up this hole…and it is really a mound of snow with a hole in it that forms every spring (I didn’t see it was only in spring until I looked it up when writing this), though you can see this hole in the rocks, Matkov okno, from where the snow would be…we looked at the map again and the trail rose 350m in .5km to get to where the snow would be which is crazy steep!! Way steeper than the steepest section of the trail we did on Sunday so definitely not something we wanted to do and we decided to just walk until the trail got too steep and then head back. We did end up being able to see the hole in the rock from a viewpoint before we turned back so that was fun (if you zoom in on the 6th photo you should see it in the taller rocks just to the left of center)! But I think to actually climb up to the snow spot or higher you need technical skills or more equipment than we have. The part we did was still a really nice walk in the river valley with great views!

On the way back to the car we saw all the animals! Lots of black-ish spiders in the rocks, sheep grazing in the field on the side of the valley, a green shield bug, and a bunch of butterflies! So that was fun!

The last photo is from the last/first official stop on the scenic road (though it is not labeled as stop one on the map), a photo of the Logar Valley (where the waterfall hike was) from the bottom of the valley (we had driven pretty far up the valley to start the waterfall hike).

All in an it was a pretty great day! More relaxing which was nice, but lots of great views and a nice walk. After we were done we headed towards our next stop and are camped there for the evening. It is supposed to rain all day tomorrow so we shall see if it actually does! We only have a couple towns to explore so that should be more doable in the rain than hiking with no way to get out of it if we want to.Читать далее