Detour Adventures

After our hiking adventure we headed back to drive the detour through Italy to the other side of Vrsic Pass (well at didn’t go the whole way there, just back over the border into Slovenia). First we drove along the Soca river back a ways, then cut up Predel Pass. There was parking close to the top so I was going to stop there to spy, but it was full and I was so sad we were going to miss it… but we drove through these old fort ruins right after that and there was a turn off there so we pulled over and explored Fort Pendel! It was very overgrown, but still fun and had some great views!

Once we were in Italy there was a lake, Lago del Predil, right there so of course we had to stop and spy there too and it was gorgeous! So nice! We stopped at a waterfall farther down as well…but you couldn’t see it. Oh well.

Then we headed on to camp which is just a parking lot at a ski jump. I thought that’s all it would be, but we got here at 4 and spent an hour wandering and seeing all the things! It is absolutely stunning here, but the sun was not in a good place as almost all of my pictures turned out horrible so I will have to take more tomorrow as it is so nice. But they have all the activities! Cross country skiing (with outdoor “skis” or there is an underground place filled with snow with tracks in! You can play frisbee golf, ride a zip line, go up the ski lift, hike, I feel like I am missing more but there are so many things to do! We also got here in time to watch people training in the ski jump! They were all kids, from pretty young to early 20’s at the latest, but we had so much fun watching them! I have never seen someone on a ski jump in real life, and I didn’t know they still could do it without snow! We spent a good amount of time watching them as it was so much fun! I really enjoyed that and it was completely unexpected! Everything shut down just after 5 though so then we wandered back to the car and did our evening chores.

Today was an unexpectedly great day! The hike this morning was amazing, the detour was gorgeous and we had some great short stops along the way, and our camping place is so much fun!Leia mais