| rozka8. 06. 2022 22:40:17 |
Even the sky was raining tears of joy on Friday , when after a loooong time I fell again into the embrace of the admittedly second sweetest , the cross-border hill I missed so much.
The homely feeling hasn't faded even after all this time, quite the opposite... I really missed the Carnic wilderness
We drive to Roveredo, shoulder quite heavy backpacks and already in the very warm morning we step along path 424. The trail is wonderful, nicely routed, otherwise more of a traverse, a bit up and a bit down, so we don't gain altitude quickly. Water in abundance, so you can drink right away and save weight on your shoulders , since the last "self service" water is at ca. 900 m, just before the junction of paths 424 and 425.
At the junction where path 425 joins, we have about an hour to the former barracks, where we "gain" more altitude in that hour than before in three .
At the barracks ruins a short break, and a look at our continuation. No trouble finding the big boulder, here we head directly right under the walls and we're already in the central gully. Well, the start, scree on scree, in between really good rock that holds, then again in the crumbly quarry, so a bit before the end of the gully we turn right and higher realize it would be better to continue to the end of the gully. We reach grassy slopes, no material for bunches there, but wet ground and manicured nails gone to ruin, haha. Here I hand over the reins to the faithful rope and my co-climber who watches over me. Then I crawl on the soft, non-holding ground, everything stays in my hands and soon I'm over, for me the most annoying part, where I crawl to the ridge and the view opens to... everything... here we traverse the north side under the ridge, then back to the sun and the final ascent on grass and, yessss, Cozzarel was only ours that day... immense joy, great views to everything we've done and what's waiting. We stay on the summit for a while, as gazing at Čuk is never enough. Below us "brother" Montusel, behind Dunja with wild Joveti, overgrown Plananica, behind charming Muzci, then Počimunih with Crostis and more and more....... after a deserved picnic we start a careful descent. In the gully just sliding and dodging moving stones and soon out of the gully, but our adventure just started here, as... well we like loop tours, even if longer, but this time we really botched it  . At the junction we choose path 425, which for the first hour ascends more despite descent, in between we had cleaning action in every gully without grass, not to mention the ticks we counted in hundreds, which a bit spoiled the joy and atmosphere. For the last flower we even ignored the branch-off , and descended too far to make turning back worthwhile, so each in our processing of fatigue and heat and ticks and all spiders wrapping our sweaty bodies, finally stepped onto the bike path in Villanova hamlet, hahahaha... followed cleaning action, I don't even know which one anymore, then back to the starting point along the road which was faaaar...
But we made a personal time record, as the tour is already looong without our dawdling. All paths extremely nice, originally routed, ambience pure wilderness, solitude, to our taste. Currently plenty of water, but ticks are a big minus, as there are really tons.
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