Getting ready
2017年8月25日, イングランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Ready? Actually, I'm not ready yet... even now that I'm on my way.... but hey what's new?
This is a test after all, a shake down, of the new gear, of (ultra)light backpacking and not least of myself.もっと詳しく
Ljubljana... Wow!
2017年8月25日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Ok, yes, I can almost hear you... This indeed looks more like a pub crawl than a mountain trail. I'm still very much in realm of modern civilization. In fact I'm staying in a fantastic little airbnbもっと詳しく
Last minute
2017年8月26日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Day 2 really was about finishing my preparations. Thankfully Ljubljana has numerous outdoor sports shops so it was easy finding what was missing and replace what was broken. Since my Slovenian isもっと詳しく
And I'm off!
2017年8月27日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Prep done, packed and ready to go. I'm on the first train from Ljubljana to Maribor. Thankfully that means a gentle 7am start... nice and easy.
Oh... as it turns out it also means a but of railもっと詳しく
Day 1 on the trail - first half
2017年8月27日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Hiking! Finally! And uphill... what a start! 2 hours straight up up and upper. It's hot and I'm soaked. They say that long distance hiking means to get comfortable with being uncomfortable... so thisもっと詳しく
Day 1 - second half
2017年8月27日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
It got a lot easier after that. A lot! After lunch the trail was a lot less scrambling up rain drainage paths and a lot more forest roads. Still, I finished my first hiking day after around 12km. Lessもっと詳しく
Section 2 - before lunch
2017年8月28日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Two footprints for the same section? Again? Yes... it's been a loooong day.
But first things first.... getting up early sort of worked. I was back on the trail before 7. At 8.30am I stopped forもっと詳しく
Section 2 - after lunch
2017年8月28日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
... and then the weather took a turn for the worse and we experienced what's known as a heavy thundery shower. Luckily I was still at the koča for lunch when this happened but it set the tone for theもっと詳しく
Ribinska to Slovenj Gradec - Morning
2017年8月29日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
So after a day of playing cat and mouse with the next downpour.... what will the morning bring?? Well... FOG... lots of fog... great! Luckily the sun made it through eventually and turned the mistyもっと詳しく
Slovenj Gradec
2017年8月29日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Lunch, apart from being delicious, also brought on the wise decision not to do a crazy push for 30km today. Especially not with 13km pretty much uphill towards the very end.
So instead I went for aもっと詳しく
Good morning
2017年8月30日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
After an early start and an hour of good hiking, it's time for breakfast. (also, I ran out of water over dinner last night so needed a refill)
Mostly the world is still asleep. I startled deer, a fewもっと詳しく
Mount St. Ursula
2017年8月30日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
... or in Slovenian "Uršlja Gora". I hiked it for two reasons.
1. To honour my favourite aunt Uschi
2. It happened to be en-route ;)
It was a really nice hike up the 1680 meters. The trail was quiteもっと詳しく
The magic forest
2017年8月30日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Well the day went on after Mount St Ursula... no rest for the wicked ;)
The afternoon turned out to be magic forest time. I have taken a lot of pictures but none really come close to what is wasもっと詳しく
The weather
2017年8月31日, スロベニア ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
I am setting off early again. 5 o'clock waking up, 6 o'clock heading out. And the reason for this is the weather.... tomorrows weather to be precise... which is meant to be thunderstorms and rain.もっと詳しく
Veliko Raduha
2017年8月31日, スロベニア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
After pushing pretty hard for about 4h this morning (the signs indicate 5.5h for that section) I finally got to Koča na Loki. Isn't Loki the ancient norse god of mischief?? (Thank you Stargate forもっと詳しく
Fangorn forest to Solčava
2017年8月31日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
The 3rd and final leg of the day was meant to be just 5km down to the valley to Solčava...
Well, nobody had thought to mention that the path would be the most narrow and gnarly so far on this trail.もっと詳しく
Sitting, waiting, wishing
2017年9月1日, スロベニア ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Not much happening today. I got up, packed everything and ventured to find a bus out of Solčava. It was 8.30am. Turns out the next bus is at 1pm.
So, nothing to do but to wait at the café acrossもっと詳しく
Re-supply
2017年9月2日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
"Re-supply? What shopping does he need eating at mountain huts every day???" - I can almost feel your raised eyebrows through the internet! Yes, I admit, my re-supply is basically bying more gummyもっと詳しく
Back on track/trail
2017年9月3日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
I'm hiking again! Yes! And what better way to start than with a 3.5h slog from 600 meters all the way up to 2067 meters.... up up up!
There were some great views again though. In the last but oneもっと詳しく
Valley of the Triglav lakes
2017年9月3日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
As seems to be so often the case, after lunch was once again different than before lunch. Firstly, I had only about 2h to go to reach my destination for the day and secondly it was mainly downhill.もっと詳しく
Krn
2017年9月4日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
2244 meters. It's what's gonna be the highest point of this hike for me. Arriving here unfortunately wasn't that much of a highlight but rather more of a fog light (sorry, terrible joke that). Iもっと詳しく
Krn again - and now you can even see it
2017年9月5日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C
After a very foggy evening, the early risers got rewarded with a beautiful sunrise. Enough said.
Enjoy the pictures.
Down, down, down
2017年9月5日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Another glorious day of hiking... mostly downhill as hinted on already. Two small oddities here....
1.) A mushroom picture - no hike is truly complete without one
2.) For those curious about myもっと詳しく
Hiking on top of the clouds
2017年9月6日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
And just in case there was any doubt about how cool this place is... let's bring in some clouds. Wow... that was pretty spectacular! There were some moments that got the heart pumping and this againもっと詳しく
A walk in the woods
2017年9月6日, スロベニア ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
It ended the same way it began... with a walk in the woods. The last 8.5km of my trail today led from up in the clouds at Črna Prst all the way down to Petrovo Brdo and went along beautiful forestもっと詳しく











































































































































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