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| Tadej5. 09. 2011 19:48:19 |
Continuation of the topic...
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| jure1005. 09. 2011 15:48:32 |
What's your opinion on hiking ALONE in the mountains?
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| janez.novak5. 09. 2011 16:29:01 |
I mostly hike alone. There are several reasons: either no right company, I like to decide where, when and how I'll go. I'm a member of a large PD, but this year no proper trips for me. Main "opponent" of my solo hiking is wife - she really worries, especially after my injury last year (was alone and managed well) under Prisojnik. If I meet no one on the whole tour I feel a bit uneasy, otherwise I hike crowded paths. My motto is everyone has fate set - either get unlucky in mountains or fall off couch.
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| katty5. 09. 2011 16:59:42 |
I think you definitely shouldn't go to the high mountains alone. Why? Mainly because of the possibility of some injury or even a fall. And it's nice to have good company with you. Well, everyone decides for himself how and what. Those who like to go alone to the mountains, let them go. That's my opinion.
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| pohodnik385. 09. 2011 19:13:35 |
I fully agree with Janez and I hike alone in the mountains. This year I was quite proud if I look back at what I all summited this year and how fun it was even alone. I have my own hiking pace so I don't overexert myself because it's not a competition and I've already studied at home where I'll go, how long it will all take together... because it's really hard to find someone serious to come along, and you're responsible for the one hiking with you
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| jure1005. 09. 2011 19:47:29 |
Partially agree with you, Janez... But mainly it's not smart, really because of injury risks, as we know, if you're alone you need damn luck to get out of it well.
It's true though, that you rarely find the right company whose pace suits everyone.
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| Žiga225. 09. 2011 20:09:13 |
Same, I hike alone in the mountains. Among other things because there's no right company (you know; no time, no fitness, etc.) and I also like to be a bit alone. I can dictate the pace and plans myself. Plus I don't have to watch and care for the co-participant.
Regarding safety it's kinda like this; if I fly off somewhere, the company I'd hike with could only wave or sweep me into a bag . Otherwise I always have the phone at hand, so if trouble arises I can call myself. In safety I see no difference if I hike alone or with company.
Of course before I go I tell some buddy or family exactly where I'm heading and which paths and approximately when I'll report.
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| Damien_835. 09. 2011 20:20:52 |
We are already three, go anywhere, anytime whether it's at 3am or 2pm. I don't want to burden anyone nor they me. I don't like chasing or waiting, just when you're in your element. An hour sitting on a rock fits, or adrenaline climbing on an unsecured wall, when e.g. your companion wouldn't want or dare. True, it's nicer in two, but in "solo" it can be even nicer if you make it so.. When someone asks "Where did you go?" I quickly change the topic, because there have been enough sermons this year titled "You know what all can happen to you" Regards
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| Lisica5. 09. 2011 20:21:28 |
Another one who hikes alone. It never bothered me,... it bothers me when some weird guys usually 2 together by the path poke at me 'and you just alone?'. Obviously they still need someone to hold hands with, some of us are already independent. :-)
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| zvezdan5. 09. 2011 20:44:30 |
I think like this: we three are the best pair. If there are two, it sometimes goes too slowly, if there are three there is more mutual encouragement and everything goes faster together and we have even more to tell each other.
I also enjoy going alone. I'm convinced that it is safer if you are not alone. If you fall somewhere, it doesn't have to be very serious, no one saw you and then they find you after a few weeks.
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| brankobr5. 09. 2011 21:15:18 |
I hike alone, I pay more attention, enjoy more, respect for the mountains is greater, the experience is complete. Regarding injuries it's like this, you need luck, before that brains, don't go where you're not sure.
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| U&Q5. 09. 2011 21:37:33 |
I never hike alone, but I rarely have human company. My dog is enough for me and since I have her anyway I don't go on demanding paths. She protects me from my stubbornness and adrenaline feats, if I constantly worried about tripping I wouldn't even go to the store..
But I believe that on demanding paths it's completely different.
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| heinz5. 09. 2011 21:43:57 |
Janez with fate is like this: -that it is,.. fate (lucky) also when you don't get unlucky etc. So, ultimately no need to philosophize about it, since >fate< in essence is everything, or better - ... - nothing.
Probably it's more useful not to be alone in the mountains, especially in case something serious happens. But what can we do, if those who have the desire and possibility to hike a bit more most often don't have the possibility to hike in twos or threes.. Then the person goes alone anyway. Over time however that person, when it happens to go somewhere in a group, can (or even mostly) realize that solo hikes for countless reasons can be, or actually - higher quality, more exciting etc.
Alone one is usually more cautious (should be) and more thoughtful, meaning based on experience one can learn much more.
But I don't encourage solo hikes regardless of their advantages. If possible, don't visit more demanding paths alone!
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| lynx6. 09. 2011 00:06:09 |
 In short, 2-5 roughly equally patient companions suit me best, but more towards the lower end with increasing difficulty and crumblyness. It's worth being alone if exploring yourself or mobile nature (but then it's good to be alone on a wider area). Sometimes there's no other way, but it's a pity.
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| viharnik6. 09. 2011 08:12:59 |
Regarding solo hiking I think safety in mountains is no more endangered than rambling in groups. If a person knows the path, knows how to move in mountains, knows how to assess how far they can still climb and return the same way, such form of mountaineering still works. Therefore the ascent of the solo hiker is so much more careful, where you approach the rock and the surrounding nature with all senses. True, first aid and care in case of accident in mountains is worth gold from a fellow hiker, friend and is provided immediately on site. For beginners of course it's better to do tours in twos or threes in company, because then everyone contributes something to the tour. One for navigation and path knowledge, the second climbs better and reminds of harder sections of the path, the third divides the tour into stages and tells good jokes and creates good atmosphere. Of course glacier tours and winter harder hikes an individual cannot safely realize, especially not in hard winter where avalanches threaten. With whom to the mountains depends on the individual's relationship to mountains, knowledge and way of hiking in mountains, perception of nature on paths, peace and sometimes just hiking, trust and selfless help, common goal, path or mountain. I would add the last sentence of @lynx, that alone we experience more from the tour with impressions and memories from mountain nature.
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| Loni6. 09. 2011 08:27:21 |
I love going alone very much, I also like going in twos, more than that is already too much for me. But it was interesting to hear the remarks when I went from Skuta over Dolgi hrbet alone to Grintovec. Practically everyone asked me what I'm doing alone in the hills No one asked that of a male hiker or mostly solo hikers asked me. Interesting was also the remark of the female hiker on top of Skuta, where's my partner and I said he stayed home. I got a real lecture on interpersonal relationships, that this won't end well, because that's how it starts... It raised my lid a bit, but not much, because I don't let myself be thrown off track.
When alone, I follow myself, when I need chatty company, I go with my sister. Otherwise mostly with partner.
Saturday will be mine again, if the weather is good, of course, otherwise a bit lower...
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| otiv6. 09. 2011 08:57:57 |
Interesting read, so I'll add something too. In the valley sometimes a person boils over from all the "noise" of work and sometimes family too, and what's better than a solo tour to the mountain into solitude, to calm the head a bit, enjoy all the mountain beauties, talk to oneself and really enjoy the walk where no one "rushes" you like the desire for joy waiting at the top of the mountain.
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| jaz*6. 09. 2011 09:25:02 |
I also like to head off alone to the mountains. But remarks from various playful hikers bother me: Oh, and you're all alone? It sounds like something is really wrong if a woman goes alone to the mountain.
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| ljubitelj gora6. 09. 2011 09:27:50 |
I hike alone to the mountains, where I plan routes on the go, suitable pace, more summits, very demanding paths. lp
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| Karletto6. 09. 2011 09:37:20 |
I go to hills with easy paths mostly alone, to the Alps and KSA at least in two, and I don't know why every tour must be in company. You go to the shop alone too, right, even if at the entrance a basket can fall on your head??
With hikers' remarks it's like that. It seems almost sad that passers-by have nothing else to talk about but you. 
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| jaz*6. 09. 2011 10:05:42 |
, you're right, with all these beauties in the mountains!
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