Freshly fallen snow lured me today to the beautifully snow-covered Matajur.
Since the morning was still all gloomy, and Matajur on the webcam was in fog, I only set off from home at 9 o'clock hoping that the weather in real life wasn't as miserable as through the window or on the camera. Already from the path, an amazing view of the white chain of Dolomites soon put me in a better mood, surrounding the green Friulian plain and Matajur rising above the mists.
I drove to Rif. Pelizzo. The road was dry to the top. There was snow from the starting point onwards from 20 cm, higher in drifts up to 1 m. Since fog was rising from the valley, I went to the top along the direct path, which was already well trodden.
Otherwise, the snow was so soft that the snowshoes sank right through. But still, I wanted some snowshoeing through untouched white, so from the top I initially planned to go down past the Skrila spring, but because of the fog that covered the entire eastern slope, I turned west towards the Dom na Matajure instead. From there I planned to the lakelet and then across Maršinska planina to Rif. Pelizzo, but after a few minutes of walking, fog enveloped me so thick that I barely found my way to the Dom na Matajure. From there I followed the track to Rif. Pelizzo. At the end of the path, thunder rumbled a couple more times, the top was still wrapped in fog, but the sun was already shining in the valley.
Despite the changeable weather, there were quite a few hikers on Matajur and a couple of skiers. Also from Avsa, at least one faithful Matajur visitor climbed up according to the logbook.
Since the sun was nicely warming in the valley, on the way home I also drove to Krminska gora (Monte Quarin), a 274 m high hill rising above Krmin/Cormons, from which on nice weather you get a view of the entire Friuli all the way to the sea, to the Hills and Julian Alps all the way to Vipava Valley and Karst. Today the Alps were hidden in clouds, so I'll return for a better view.