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Hello,
for a friend who doesn't speak Slovenian, I'd like to give some Slovenian mountaineering book as a gift, but I don't know how much of this literature is actually translated into English... It would be great if there was The Path, but unfortunately (not yet), does anyone have a suggestion?

thanks!

Boroot, the marked path was closed for good reason, rocks fly around willingly. Just below the pegs there was a big snowfield with a gaping crevasse a week ago and it will surely be there for some time, we needed winter gear for descent. Judge for yourself, but Bovški Gamsovec is also a nice independent goal, recommend up via Sovatna and down to Luknja.

This Sunday my colleague and I headed to Lanževica and caught a really nice autumn day with wonderful views of the misty and the Adriatic Sea and Dolomites in the distance - at least I think it's the Dolomites.
Could someone who knows better please write which peaks are visible in the distance?

More pics here: https://tjagor.blogspot.com/2021/10/lanzevica.html

On Saturday I expected a nice sunny autumn day with fittingly ambitious plans - to Rinka via climbing route, then over Turska gora to Kamniško sedlo. I took winter gear but expected no more than a few cm of southern snow. I was wrong, soon above Okrešelj to Savinjsko sedlo all white, in Mrzli dol already 20-30 cm snow with breakable crust, peaks in clouds rapidly changing in the wind. I decided it was not the right day for that tour, I'd go to Savinjsko sedlo and Koroška Baba. But when I arrived at Savinjsko sedlo it was real Siberia - cold wind, fog, hard snow patches. The path to Ledinski vrh was nothing like summer, halfway I put on crampons and ditched the Baba idea. On descending the sedlo I met a trio, else no one. Approaching Okrešelj I remembered maybe I could find the path to Zaspani hribar (Sleeping Mountaineer) I'd admired from the trail many times. I found this thread on hribi.net on my phone, read it and went to check. I took the path to Kamniško sedlo to the spot under Turska gora wall turning sharply to Planjava. I turned right to the boulder, higher I hit cut dwarf pines, along which I descended slightly to the foot of ZH to the saddle by the big larch. It looks inaccessible from there but experience says things are easier closer than afar, and so it was though the little ridge is no joke - first vertically from bushes to rocky ledge on ascent, then the crumbly top part pumped my pulse hard. At the cross, helicopter view of Okrešelj, eyeing Turni opposite which I visited early summer. That tour (Zabrložnica, Turni, Matkovo okno, Okrešelj, Pasje sedlo) could add ZH sometime. Slowly and very carefully back by the ascent path, coffee at Okrešelj, satisfied back to the valley.

Joining the congratulations, super hike on a beautiful autumn day, for me definitely the hardest part was the descent to Latvice, although climbing to luska is no small thing either.

Yes, it's Dovška Baba. Djimuzl continue.

No

From which mountain is such a nice view?

Descent from Skuta towards Mali podi?

Congratulations on the tour, even a single stage is no small thing, three in a row from dawn to dusk deserve a big bravo!

Last Saturday it was completely normal. They haven't started work yet.

I'd sign up for the trip too, if there's still space on the bus I'll bring something sweet

Congratulations, Journeyman and Rozka, you're better pathfinders than me! And bravo to Pastirica for the courage needed when scrambling in that solitude! I preferred to turn towards Utam.

For the makeup exam that still awaits me too, I'd rather choose autumn when temperatures are more pleasant. Some instructions beforehand won't hurt

Hi biba, also in the virtual world! Črni hriber is big and there are many options; too brave up there I wasn't. In the description everything is simpler than on the terrain, which up there is demanding. But if I don't get to the end neither the first nor the second time, I'll try again and again I'm also counting on geppo having some suggestion!

Yes approximately there (picture 4 of my post from 1.7.2018), but obviously a bit too low. Didn't go directly past chamois dens either, went a bit lower towards crumbly gully. Many options there, this Saturday I wasn't lucky to find, maybe another time.

Yesterday morning was planned for two to find the path over Črni hriber to the meadows and then directly to Krofička summit. Unfortunately the other participant didn't feel very olympic, so I went alone. Next time.
I went over Črni hriber three years ago, but still missed the entry overgrown gully at the beginning and started ascending the adjacent one, quite similar from below, but it quickly narrowed and turned into a jump leading to a steep grassy shoulder. I descended back and found the right one, leading to the already known rock where the path starts. It's still as I remember - mysterious, steep, scenic and requires 100% attention all the time. When I reached the upper part of the path where on the grassy gully a "path" branches right into the forest towards the hut under Utami, I couldn't find the continuation upwards or to the left at all. At least I think the path should continue somewhere there. I checked the scree rocks on the left, the gully directly above, but nowhere did I see traces of predecessors. So I said ah, and went to Roban's shepherd hut.
Ascent up crumbly gully, then traverse under walls, through scrub, here the path is practically invisible to me, only here and there a sawn branch of scrub confirms the right direction. Here I circled for some time and struggled with scrub, but finally reached the little spring that was still dripping - I fixed the tin end with a twig so drops end in the trough not before it. The hut still stands alone under the walls, this is really a special piece of world. Between rock towers I reached Movznik, there met a couple I saw leaving the hut with shelter when I arrived. I walked to Strelovec and enjoyed the view, peace and knowing that now it's just a walk to the car and it was, unfortunately lower part on dusty road but what can you do. But unusual sight of a herd of alpacas at one of the first farms.

I've satisfied my hunger for Črni hriber for quite some time now, but the continuation to Krofička summit still bugs me. Can someone give a hint, picture, how to continue to Covnik meadows and where I missed the right path?