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| mukica23. 07. 2014 09:00:37 |
I often go to the mountains alone for body and soul, I call it that....it's never hard for me to get up almost in the middle of the night for our local ones and drive to the starting point, head out in the dark towards the desired goal, with mind off and admire the awakening of nature, surroundings...nothing is better than returning home pleasantly tired and maybe then to work and do all duties with more energy. At the beginning my husband was quite surprised by my doings, now he's most often prouder than me. Often we repeat my solo tour together soon, descriptions are so vivid that he wouldn't miss it either
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| ljubitelj gora23. 07. 2014 20:00:41 |
That's right @JMiha finding like-minded is hard, that's why we go solo to the mountains. Problem with company is pace, location of individuals, time, weather, some have plans, wishes, obligations, endless adjusting doesn't work, so in the end we're dependent on own ideas, desires, what you cook you eat.
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| pohodnik3823. 07. 2014 20:11:07 |
Exactly like that, rushing on the path would bother me because I like photographing so I need a bit more time. For me beauty of nature, unspoiled, peace is found only on pathless terrain or where others don't dare or don't know where the path starts. Sometimes summit isn't even important and tour adjusts on the go. Lots of paths if you just browse internet and books prepare and go. Even lower hills are beautiful and paths on them little walked or not so known. Especially in this year's lousy weather when sometimes not worth driving many km to mountains.
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| dprapr23. 07. 2014 21:12:11 |
Solo hiking is certainly welcome sometimes for the soul, but we must be aware that in case of injury we have no one.
Say we break a leg (not impossible in demanding pathless, especially pushing through junipers and not knowing what's below), no signal,... Can only wait and hope that those we told about planned route listened and start worrying on time. And of course that we didn't change plan midway and turned elsewhere.
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| ljubitelj gora23. 07. 2014 21:33:45 |
That's true, so you need to be even more careful, I prefer to go up faster, down more slowly. It can be a very big problem in such a case, pathless terrain, no signal and no one knows where you are. But look also at mushroom picking, when I go a few km from the farm, I don't take the phone with me, farms are scattered over kilometers. You can get injured at home too, picking apples, fall down and break, brother was lots in mountains but mule slipped and he ended in hospital on sick leave for 2 months. Also on roads an accident can happen casually from fatigue after tour, you drive to opposite lane and wake up (if) in hospital.
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| pikica123. 07. 2014 21:37:39 |
Or you go to the sea and the waiter stabs you 
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| ljubitelj gora23. 07. 2014 21:43:14 |
Or just to nearby pub, two schnapps couple harsh words and they beat you up, next day explain how you fell into gully while haymaking.
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| Edina24. 07. 2014 23:32:24 |
Just as I would never give up solo hiking, I would also never get used to going to the mountains in large groups. Sometimes a smaller company is nice, especially if you get along somewhat with your companions, because the enthusiasm, satisfaction and happiness experienced in the mountains is occasionally nice to share too. Sometimes you simply have to take someone there, because it is so heavenly beautiful there.
As for safety, half is already done before the tour; plan and preparation, weather, choice of tour, realistic assessment of psychophysical ability, appropriate equipment, proper way of informing family. If there is a hut along the path, I say where and which path I'm going, which is my car if parked in front of the hut, I leave a note in the car with information where I went and which path, if there is no hut at the starting point, etc. The other half is of course the path, where not everything can be foreseen. But the path is like life; knowledge and experience make us wise and the more of both, the easier we manage. If I add a pinch of courage, some curiosity, a little passion and a large dose of love for the mountains and nature, we will undoubtedly walk long and happily on trails and tracks. And happy trails and also where there are none at all.
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| panda25. 07. 2014 10:39:28 |
Very nicely said Edina. I just add this: you have to watch yourself and know how to listen to your body.
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| ljubitelj gora25. 07. 2014 13:43:26 |
Definitely best to leave a note on the car dashboard, where we're heading, the route. I did that when I went to Veliki Oltar, Dovški križ, Šplevta, after good 6 hours I was back full of enthusiasm for Martuljek Mountains. Then I went again in autumn to Dovški križ and Veliki Oltar, the hardest seemed Jugova grapa to me, although fully snow-covered but somehow you couldn't afford a fall. Over time you get used to solo ascents, in company it can be even more adrenaline-pumping, when someone dislodges a rock and you get it in your lap, or climbing ferrata, someone's fall consequently, if not far enough apart you fall too. When going on climbing path I make sure to be among the first precisely because of falling scree, recently under Ledinam under Slovenian climbing path even before reaching the wall it was already flying down.
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| smatjaz25. 07. 2014 18:23:03 |
lg forget that note on the dashboard, it's an ideal message to thieves how much time they have to gift you 100€ in the car  Look, better option is to tuck a similar note with report from inside behind the sunvisor or put it in the glovebox and if something happens to you and the vehicle stands there for days, rescuers or police will open it anyway and first look in those two places where traffic or some owner data document usually is. On such notice a phone number is desirable so they try to contact or if it rings empty, locate the phone spot. Above all safe step.
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