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Bavški Pihavec Ridge

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Trobec16. 06. 2022 19:39:28
Super, top-notch!

Those grasses... I think they're nowhere as steep as in upper Posočje. I've also learned something in these parts... the steepness is often greatest right before the valley bottom... in beech forest... zadrega
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dprapr16. 06. 2022 19:48:18
Uh, Tone, that doesn't belong under current Pihavci conditions. nasmeh
We were just watching snakes.
I'm glad you managed to find the passage to the valley. I was already thinking you had lots of gear for abseiling, but then I see you used beeches for anchors.
For this tour it especially holds that it ends only in the valley.
Congrats.
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lojze182512. 08. 2024 11:42:57
On Saturday, 10.8.24, we set out to check if this is really the nicest Slovenian ridge. Start at 6am in Bavšica, from where we head via pl. Bale towards the top of Osojnik, where the sun greets us after some fight with spiders. Here a quick pause to gear up and then full gas to the ridge. Most of the time we stick to the ridge, but every now and then we have to bypass some difficult section. On Veliki Pihavec after about 1h. Descent to the belay for abseil, where someone left a sling. A static would have been a better choice.
At the abseil I check the smooth rock for climbing in the opposite direction. By feel say V, some 4-5m, but in this section there are already at least four pegs for protection.
On Mali Pihavec again strictly along the ridge, although the grasses to the right don't look as impassable as in the pictures.

After some more ridge walking over a few intermediate tops we reach Obljak after some fight with scrub. Now only the supposedly very tricky descent awaits us. We go directly south straight through the scrub, which turned out to be a good decision as lower down we find good passages that somehow open up by themselves. When the grasses end (we didn't use the ice axe velik nasmeh) and the first trees appear we already thought we were out of the worst, but we were sorely mistaken. Personally, the hardest and most orientationally tricky part for me was the middle section after the end of the grasses and before reaching the beech forest. We try to stay right but the (steep) passages in the sparse forest force us left. A bit lower we descend a little via the grassy gully and even lower we pick up the outlines of a path that leads us quite far right and we're already in the beech forest. From here on we can breathe easy, as there are practically no difficulties left, although there's still quite a bit of descent. We exit at the hunting hut and then lower past the cableway and PUS Bavšica.

The ridge is unique, scenic and beautiful. The descent is completely unnecessary. I don't know if it's the nicest in Slovenia, but I certainly agree with Prle that the Bavški end is a dream ridge area.
View from below on the ridge of Pihavci and the notch between Veliki and Mali Pihavec1
Neighbouring ridge from Zagorelec to Špičica with Oltar2
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Exposed bypass, good holds4
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Bouquet of gentians. So many as on this ridge I haven't seen yet7
Towards the abseil8
Mali Pihavec9
Abseil station10
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View back to the descent route from Veliki Pihavec12
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Interesting passages14
View back at the last pihavec15
On the descent16
Steep grass. As it was bone dry it was doable without an ice axe17
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darinka412. 08. 2024 12:01:38
Congrats. We looked at the ridge only from afar. Did you go back through Bukovska korita?
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turbo12. 08. 2024 12:16:02
Mega tour, hats off mežikanje
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lojze182512. 08. 2024 12:26:56
Thanks to both.

No, we didn't go through Bukovska korita. We followed the direction marked with 1 on the picture or footsteps over Črni vrh. Down in the forest there's another hut, not sure if it's really hunting or weekend.
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taubi412. 08. 2024 12:43:31
Congrats from me too for traversing the great ridge. I don't know if nobody traversed this ridge in these two years, or if it's not worth mentioning. So far I've traversed all the so-called great ridges, but this one is still by far the most beautiful for me, not the hardest. We descended somewhere in the middle between 1 and 2. I think you chose a better variant.
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Daaam12. 08. 2024 12:58:20
#taubi4 "I don't know if no one has traversed this ridge in these two years, or if it's not worth mentioning."
More likely that there aren't many of you doing such "ghostly" tours on this forum (well, basically it's known who goes how far) we amateurs just enjoy such reports. All congrats from me too for the tour.
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Hammond12. 08. 2024 13:48:38
We met on the approach. Nice regards to both. nasmeh
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