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Tadej28. 02. 2019 10:36:01

Spring day at Zelenica at 11 degrees C. The path is still icy in the shade, but the snow softens in the sun.
Lp, Tadej

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Tadej4. 03. 2019 09:19:10

Today sunny and windy. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej7. 03. 2019 09:27:42

Today cloudy and windy. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej9. 03. 2019 08:44:50

That's how it was today. Lp, Tadej

Two days ago it was icy here, now it's already bare.

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Tadej11. 03. 2019 09:03:15

Today sunny and quite warm in the morning. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej13. 03. 2019 09:07:06

Today initially cloudy, then it started to clear. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej16. 03. 2019 09:03:26

Today warmer than previous days, there was also less ice. Lp, Tadej

Tadej22. 03. 2019 08:13:21

Wonderful day at Zelenica. The path today was not icy. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej25. 03. 2019 07:13:17

Warm morning. Snow starts at 1200 meters, along the service road it's dry even a bit higher.

Lp, Tadej

Košutica, Veliko Kladivo, Veliki vrh and Hajnževo sedlo

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Tadej30. 03. 2019 08:40:34

Nice spring day at Zelenica. Lp, Tadej

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Tadej6. 04. 2019 15:52:42

That's how it was today. The service road is clear up to 1500 m.

Regards, Tadej

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Tadej13. 04. 2019 08:10:53

New snow starts just below 1500 m, but up to Zelenica it's no more than 2 cm. Total snow depth at Zelenica at the ARSO weather station is 100 cm.

Regards, Tadej

Someone is climbing up the Šentanski plaz

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Majdag13. 04. 2019 09:06:56

Winter keeps striking back every week, but in the lowland it's greener every day... nasmeh

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volk98613. 04. 2019 11:14:02

Tadej, I was there. velik nasmeh

Šentanski plaz was nicely frozen in the morning and quick to ascend. Turned into Lenuhova gully and back via the descent route.

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j.14. 04. 2019 11:02:12

Ha, Tadej's and Volk986's midday posts got me out of Saturday lounging. Started from car around 3 pm, Šentanski plaz quite softened, no tracks. Sinking to mid-boot, sometimes less, here and there to below the knee. 50m below edge much colder, put on crampons, necessary for last meters. Ridge to summit partly bare and icy, partly snowy.

Thick fog there, light snow, little wind. Hard to see ridge edge and possible cornices. Soon at plaque for pilot killed in 1955 crash. Never seen plaque, online only rescue report of deceased and survivor (PV 12/1956).

Behind peaklet with plaque some notch, hard to judge in fog. Therefore and due to late hour turned back, though nav showed 150 m and 30 m height to summit.

On descent tried to avoid my track so it might still be usable for someone today or tomorrow. Some pics attached to illustrate the conditions.

The two touring skis led to the left exit. Skiing was possible (barely) up to about 1400m.

Winter up top. Crampons useful for the last 50 or 100 meters.

The ridge is partly cornices and icy, cornices unseen due to fog.

Fog up top, more fog below on descent. No big deal.

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pikica114. 04. 2019 11:45:26

@j. you were really close to the top. Where that memorial plaque is is the exit from gully Y. From there, a few steps to the Begunjščica summit.

View towards Begunjščica summit at gully exit

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j.14. 04. 2019 16:09:21

Many thanks, @Pikica. Now I know more! Yes, the summit was really close, I missed it by about 50m earlier when following the ridge instead of crossing the slope. Fog is fog...