| suhy10. 02. 2025 00:39:48 |
Well, one doesn't know whether to describe what's already been described countless times or not. But since reading nowadays is an increasingly rare activity, society's cultural refinement sadly withers. And don't forget, we important members of this society are also ski tourers. It's clear that without waving a goose quill dipped in ink on a white sheet, not much remains to entice the eye to stroll along the paths of capital and small letters, commas, periods, semicolons, exclamation marks and other grammatical wonders of thoughts recorded on paper or screen. Writing is indeed the basic foundation and fundamental pillar of numerous sciences, philosophical thought, poetics, poetry, drama as well as everyday communication via honest letters, telegrams, postcards and newspapers dealing with spreading news from home hollows and foreign adventures. Even the statutes commanded by wise authority so unlearned folk masses know what's right and wrong require no little paper and ink. A fine example of such doings is offered these days by the fresh American president, who with theatrical flourishes on a pyre of decrees, by his wisdom, improves not only the life and work of the people who enthroned him, but all of humanity. Judging by the ideological orientation of the first man of the first and great land, we fear a decree that he'll strike the native breast of his lovely spouse with tariffs on dry goods too, if we ski tourers make more left turns than right.
And yesterday was February 8th, we know, Prešeren Day should be that day when we devote ourselves with all living and being to culture and at least for one day forget revamped materialism, consumer frenzy, influencer idiocy and other progress delusions, where the human race, crown of creation, only knows that nothing is clear anymore about where the path of progress goes. On that day we therefore attentively listen to learned festive speakers who with selected, ear-pleasing and softly sounding words, rhetorical bravuras, know to say something about the great importance of culture for the Slovenian folk, which has always been able to stand and persist on this breast. In this spirit, that day we try to look nice, speak nicely, dress festively, comb sideways and do things that at least somewhat resemble a culturally enlightened mortal. It applies to the ski tourer too. On that day we really don't want to be wrongly accused of boorishness. Besides free visits to temples of culture, perhaps we take some light reader in hand, preferably lighter content and as thin as possible, and grapple with deciphering a multitude of letters, elements of sentence structure that the writer piled in so to reveal to the reader what the writer knows and thinks the reader doesn't. Because culture in this role connects and brings people closer so they understand each other, feel and love each other. If we have no reader, on the screen for a change instead of Instagram, TikTok or Facebook we search what's written on it, for example about ski touring. So that screen reading, especially long-winded, doesn't become boring, attached pics of happy smiling skiers, wonderful alpine panoramas and winding tracks in powder take care.
Sadly there's not much to ramble about today's ski to Head above Šito and not many mentioned pics either. In fog we culturally stepped up and culturally skied down in diffuse light. Despite conditions, abnormally many visitors, alpine courses, Croatian mountain rescue on ski touring and Sunday hikers. Initial turns in the gully were more cautious, after ca. 40 vertical meters descent hard, somewhat crusted snow prevailed, no complaints about it this winter.
In the diffuse we pretended to enjoy immensely, Jakob, Gregor and Miha.
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