Equipment of hikers in the mountains
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| ljubitelj gora13. 11. 2015 17:45:42 |
I'm interested in how others view people in the mountains who walk in sneakers and without a helmet on paths where required equipment is mountaineering boots and a helmet. Or in winter on Begunjščica, poles and without crampons in the central gully, there are steps, but one wrong step and they fly down and knock someone else too.
I doubt that some have sneakers for 120 euros that are proven good quality and even better than many boots. But with this flood of sneakers everyone watches every euro. Not those for 20-30 euros from Lidl.
Or experienced people who advise on equipment, but themselves are poorly equipped.
And my opinion, everyone knows what they need. Anyway, I'm watchful of the poorly equipped so nothing by chance flies past me.
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| miri13. 11. 2015 18:02:55 |
The less one carries, the more gladly I watch.
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| dprapr13. 11. 2015 18:15:19 |
To everyone I meet, with respect... Regardless of how they are equipped!
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| Daaam13. 11. 2015 18:30:31 |
Clothes don't make the man ..maybe lately exaggerating a bit with all the amount of oh and such gear.. Good boots high or low of course basics, everyone knows what fits. To occasional hikers who go once a year to Triglav in cheap sneakers anyway hard to tell anything.
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| lino13. 11. 2015 18:31:41 |
Miri, I won't criticize, because I like to look ...
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| herman814. 11. 2015 06:07:03 |
For women the best equipment in the hills is top-class mountaineering boots, helmet and Sharon Stone bikini.....
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| marinka6714. 11. 2015 09:06:18 |
Inappropriate and above all very tasteless and offensive to us, female hikers. Please live out your fantasies and drool somewhere else.
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| GregorC14. 11. 2015 09:26:30 |
A mountain lover takes care of his own equipment and worries less about others. Such or other packages you can get from anyone regardless of equipment. We simply worry too much about others and their equipment instead of ourselves. Not everything is in equipment, even less in price. As for mandatory equipment, there is none. It's only recommended, you can't force anyone to carry it.
marinka, instead of a woman imagine a sturdy young guy on the upper picture, then it'll be nicer for you to look at too. Just like men like to look at an attractive representative of the opposite sex, I'm sure women also like to look at some decent fellow
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| ljubitelj gora14. 11. 2015 09:51:06 |
I don't worry about others, what equipment they have. As long as they don't endanger me and someone else, as I mentioned above with poles and without crampons in the gully. Exactly such one was above me and I was very careful until we were far enough apart.
So according to you the recommendations that mountain rescuers, guides, instructors write are in vain and just wasting time.
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| andrej7814. 11. 2015 09:53:43 |
Lately really exaggerating with equipment, some are equipped like for the Moon, only spacesuit missing... basics are good hiking boots, helmet in high mountains and above all fitness...
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| GregorC14. 11. 2015 10:55:17 |
No matter how you turn it, the equipment of mountain visitors here is generally at a high level. But you can't expect everyone to always have the latest and best equipment. If things aren't sorted out with oneself, the head isn't right and there's no sufficient physical fitness, even top equipment, with helmet and Vibram sole at the forefront, doesn't help. Quite the opposite, if you're well physically and mentally prepared, you'll complete the tour without problem even with worse equipment, which in someone's opinion might even be inappropriate.
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| JusAvgustin14. 11. 2015 11:51:01 |
Another topic that's completely pointless. If you looked a bit back you'd see it already exists, but of course it's easier to open a new one and then dump a bunch of nonsense!
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| dprapr14. 11. 2015 12:57:16 |
Matej, and exactly in that gully you had to climb where such ones were ahead of you who "endangered you"? Wasn't there another one?
I agree with Jus, another topic for discovering warm water.
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| Branee14. 11. 2015 17:50:57 |
this goulash you've already reheated so many times that it's burned at the bottom
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| ljubitelj gora14. 11. 2015 18:04:02 |
Oh thank god, so you don't care about others when it comes to equipment, well me neither  , topic closed.
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| lino14. 11. 2015 18:11:40 |
Ljubitelj gora, you have good intentions and you're right. But we are just the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Or: dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
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| grega_z_brega15. 11. 2015 01:19:34 |
oh yeah...
sometimes we went in worn-out jeans, a little in the backpack, and if someone forgot, a spare shirt..
climbed all sorts, helmet was some kind of implant.
Now full backpack of gear we don't use anyway, for snack instead of sausage some fluorescent gel...
just something weird
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| iUnknown15. 11. 2015 05:00:24 |
Yeah exactly. I remember 20 years ago doing a circular tour from Savica Waterfall via Komarča and Seven Lakes over Planika to Kredarica and then back past Vodnik Hut to Voje Valley to Bohinj and then back to Savica by car.
Started exactly at 8am, at Kredarica at 1:30pm, back at car at 8pm. Total 12 hours.
Had with me like 3 bananas, 1.5l water in Radenska bottle and one 100g Milka. Refilled water at last lake. That was all equipment no helmet. Back then you didn't see anyone with helmet. Met some women in bikinis cuz it was really hot.
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| panda15. 11. 2015 07:41:23 |
In 1994 I had my first mountain tour to Triglav. Had old high winter boots from Planika, tracksuit and anorak and borrowed backpack, no helmet, didn't even know about SVK. Goal: Triglav up and down. Up Tominšek route, down over Prag. Most of them no helmets back then, here and there some old fox velvet pumparice (don't see those anymore) and flannel checkered shirt. Now everything different and I'd call it irresponsible, but it worked out. Over years we've changed and now I have all necessary gear.
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| ločanka15. 11. 2015 07:56:51 |
We started hiking in pumparice, no one carried poles, helmets only alpinists wore. Then replaced pumparice with tracksuits not new but old and worn, cuz you took worse clothes with you, possibility of falling and tearing something. I remember we washed hair always after tour, never before, anyway had to look more unkempt to appear more primitive and dedicated. Today all different, everyone dresses up even for hikes, quality clothes selection color coordinated, which I like. Everything changes and this is different now too!
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| darinka415. 11. 2015 08:39:43 |
My first tour when I was 15 was to Triglav, back in 73. We went for three days, about five or six from village with our young chaplain. Even today can't believe he carried mass kit with him, cuz third day we had mass at Ledvička. Went by bus to Zadnjica junction, remember those wide backpacks, that's what they were then. Slept at Planika, then summit, know it was cold up there that day, then Seven Lakes, slept there, third day over Komarča to Bohinj. Since we had time, remember we rented boats and rowed on Bohinj Lake at end. Clothes as you said, back then almost nothing available, we from village even less cuz poverty. Nice memory left. All first time up.
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