I have to say, Grintavec has tempted me for several weeks. Every day at work it smiled at me and invited me up. Yesterday I decided to go up. So I worked only until 17:00. A good hour later I was at the cargo cableway and started hiking. Equipped with good sneakers, poles, shorts, t-shirt, small backpack: gel, chocolate, 1l maratonika, mobile, and of course full of energy that had been building up in me for several months. A little before Kokrško sedlo I caught up with three hikers with full backpacks and helmets; probably they planned to sleep in the winter room as the hut was still closed. At the saddle I don't stop, as it cooled a bit when the wind blew. I hurry on... under the "ram's horn" I meet a descending hiker, just greet him, he op,op,op...
When I'm in the middle of the summit, I stop. I admire these Grintovci that I haven't seen for a long time.
In the last months, I see them only from afar. I just stand and look. I realize that I missed the whole spring in the hills. A bit disappointed but glad to be back here...
I go on at a reduced pace. When I reach the top I yell with joy. Happy as if it were the first time up here. But it wasn't, not even this year. Yet...
I look around a bit.
I turn my face to the sun, which is now completely mild compared to a few hours ago when it burned me at work. I squint and absorb the freshness and power of nature filling my soul thirsty for mountain freshness like a desert for rain...
It's getting cold, so I descend about three hundred elevation meters lower. There my step stops. Again I admire the Grintovci. Soon thoughts of the past awaken in me, all the nice things I experienced up here and far around.
Lots of memories, moments, various ties, friendly, loving ones; it was nice, hard, strenuous, wonderful.
I just sit and watch images of the distant past when a gust of wind startles me.
I look at the watch... It's already late. I hurry down.
I slide over that snow part on the trail that remained, besides the one on the flat.
Around half past nine I'm safely at the car...
Pleasantly tired but inwardly satisfied.
This needs repeating!