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Slovenian two-thousanders

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lijaneja3. 07. 2026 17:43:25
True. According to my records Kanin is an eight-headed dragon. Vršič has exactly that many. I hope I live to see the cable car so I can do them....mežikanje
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Hammond3. 07. 2026 21:13:03
Everything there is head-shaped and peaked. velik nasmeh
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Trobec3. 07. 2026 22:46:15
Eh Tone...well it's a nice walk from the valley...just to stretch the legs zadrega
Well yeah...maybe I've had enough of Kanin for this year...velik nasmeh
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Loerst3. 07. 2026 23:12:45
Ah, I only just noticed this topic that is very dear to me. smile

Praise to DVas for the website and the effort put in! As you yourself mentioned, there is a problem because there is no definition of what a peak is. If you tell me that, I will tell you how many peaks there are.

Above all, the definition should be unambiguous, that is, completely clear, verifiable and not arbitrary. By far the most commonly used criterion is prominence (height above the saddle). Which value is the right one is a matter of agreement (or personal judgment), but if we take as a criterion a prominence of at least 30 m (probably the minimum) we have 301 two-thousanders in Slovenia (28 in the Karavanks, 37 in KSA, 236 in the Julian Alps). Of course, you can also set a different criterion.

I would also kindly warn you about the input data regarding height. I believe you started from what is publicly available, but there are many errors on public maps (especially on OpenTopo) and they are often quite significant. Sometimes it's simply a measurement error (e.g. Veliki Oltar, which is listed everywhere as 2621 m, but is actually 2628.45 m), sometimes the highest point was not measured, often there are also points that by no criterion are peaks or are not two-thousanders (typically Toplar with 1998.85 m). Some also do not have a peak in Slovenia (e.g. Velika glava on Peca), or the peak is only a meter outside the border (e.g. Ostrv 2103 m, next to Košutnikov turn or Grad 2016 (and not 2008, as on the maps, next to Vrtača) - I counted them anyway).

There are of course also two-thousanders that exist in nature but are not on maps and consequently not on lists - e.g. Point 2040 with prominence 35 m, south of Kalški greben.

If you want completely accurate data, you will have to use Lidar data. These are publicly available through the GURS portal, but you will need some GIS program and a bit of knowledge to use it. Lidar has a standard error of +- 15 cm and is the best we have at the moment (or that even exists).

And no, I don't have a list made. For years I've been saying that I'll do it one day, but I don't get around to it. But so that it doesn't remain just words, below is a graphical representation of the mentioned 301 points (criterion - above 2000 m, above 30 m prominence, in Slovenia + a few m tolerance ).
Slovenian two-thousanders with prominence 30 m - Julian Alps1
Slovenian two-thousanders with prominence 30 m - KSA2
Slovenian two-thousanders with prominence 30 m - Karawanks (missing Kordeževa glava and Končnikov vrh on Peca)3
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Trobec3. 07. 2026 23:14:07
An acquaintance explained to me that his acquaintance (I know, it sounds like "Chinese whispers"big grin) played a bit with LIDAR images and programming and wrote a script that pulls out all points above 2000m from lidar with the desired relative height of the peak.
In principle, the criterion used in these lists is a relative peak height of 30m, but in reality this is not quite true in any list known to me. And when the criteria are lowered, the number of such points increases significantly. I don't remember the exact number now, but I think at 10m there are already around 4000. Of course, a "manual" adjustment would then be needed, because in quite a few cases it's for example a large boulder, sometimes also a mountain hut. But more for a sense of how much "reserve" is still in the lists big grin
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Loerst3. 07. 2026 23:31:37
@Trobec according to lidar there are 896 points on the relief with prominence +10 m and above 2000 m above sea level.

If elevation is not a criterion, there are 27587 - that is actually the number of all bumps across Slovenia.

High time I went to sleep. smile
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Trobec4. 07. 2026 07:50:59
I said that I didn't remember the numbers exactly velik nasmeh

Thanks for the info nasmeh
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