Returning to the same place always has its charm too, so today, like two days ago, I headed to Tamar again. The track towards Kotovo Saddle was still quite well preserved from last time up to about 1500 m. From there onwards, two tourers probably continued yesterday, but today the track got lost among smaller snow drifts that the wind blows on slopes. First I broke trail alone, then a damn fast local overtook me; the last hundred or two hundred elevation meters to the goal - small heads on the edge of the saddle - two friendly companions pulled following the barely noticeable trace of predecessors again, whom we met on the way.
Skiing from the top at around 2210m was probably the best this winter! Although on sun-exposed spots of Kotovo Saddle the snow was just a tiny bit affected and during the ascent here and there even boot crampons formed, that didn't disturb the endless skiing joy at all! In shaded spots it was completely dry and almost flawless for skiing; only in the lower part of the gully around 1800 m there was a 100-meter area with softer crust. Then again whoo-hoo down almost to the forest, where the skin track is just right inclined so that with a few exceptions skiing towards the house in Tamar flows slowly.
Really exceptional day; it's rarely experienced that with an elevation difference of around 1100 m the snow is almost equally skiable from top to bottom.
But it's worth mentioning the avalanche danger. The sun, which at high temperatures in the heights today had great power, woke the first small slides from Vevnica, especially from Strug around half past eight, just as we passed by. Nothing serious, as the snow poured mostly just along the edges. Later the rumbling was heard more often, and the slides became more abundant. A little after eleven we watched a particularly large one with bated breath, whose snow cloud stretched across half the valley width. A bit ahead of the slide, but only barely some 100 meters away, we spotted a group of four ski tourers who got away well. On the return I found a dead chamois on the debris, which the snow's force had thrown from who knows what height.
On Kotovo Saddle and in the Mali kot gully, under Šite and Travnik, nothing slid at all. When we were on Kotovo Saddle, one slid in Jalovčev ozebnik somehow to the rock at the entrance. Due to the debris, skiing in the ozebnik could be quite annoying until it settles. Around noon, when returning under Strug, the intensity of sliding began to decrease. The timing of the entire tour was crucial today; tomorrow it will probably be completely different!