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This forum was readable until the moment when the PZS forum was shut down and all the pezdetki moved here and started making chaos. Since then I don't participate actively anymore. But with pezdetki I certainly don't mean Primož.

Right after New Year everything was still OK. Except that the surroundings were so littered that it was hard to safely make it into the bivouac.

Will buy a new pair now that they are on sale and report back in a couple of years. Changing insoles, impregnating or cleaning the shoes - too lazy for that
So it doesn't sound like an ad for Alpina - in the past I also used Dolomite gojzars, about which I have nothing bad to say, and Garmont, which were by far the most comfortable, but lasted only two summer seasons.

I got an Alpina Tibet in 2012 and since then have done over 100 high mountain tours with them. A year ago I was seduced by marketing and bought Mammut Ayako, much more expensive than a Tibet. Mammut boots after less than a year of use are trash - sole hard as stone and slippery, seams loose, shoe shrank and became too small. That year I used Alpina Tibet for field and forest work, this year again for high mountains. Shoe condition from the photo.
I also have Alpina Teton bought in 2001(!), over 200 winter tours so far. Like new, won't sell for 300 EUR though new cost 100 EUR then
Anyway - after short Mammut delusion back to Alpina which offers most for the money.

This "small obstacle" somehow doesn't add up for me. As far as I remember the route is easy and in good conditions also a nice ski descent.

if pictures of people sitting on the cross are already being deleted, it would be hygienic to delete this one too.

Lubnikar is right. At this parking lot there's a sign directing hikers to the path past the hut and not along the closed road under the dangerous Red Rock. The closure probably isn't for fun.

March 2001, around 3pm:

"Good day, do you perhaps have something to eat?"

"Well I think nothing anymore", came from a well-laden table where the cook and owner were stuffing themselves.

First and last experience with Kekec's homestead.

Only once was I persuaded by someone to go to midnight mass on Velika Planina. From Stahovica to Mala Planina it was OK, from Mala Planina onwards unbearable crowds, shouting drunks, fireworks and firecrackers. We got within only 100 m of the chapel. Disgusting!

Interesting...We slept over this weekend from Friday to Saturday, and the hutkeeper didn't mind coming to open the hut, light the stove and cook just for us (two families). And it wasn't the first time. Based on my previous experiences, Mihov dom is by far the friendliest hut on Vršič, it has some spirit of originality that higher inns haven't had for a long time.

How did they bypass the TNP Act?

In the first protection zone among other things it is forbidden:

14. to build new mountain, tourist and other paths and trails, to widen and mark them, except marking historical and thematic paths with the consent of the national park manager;

That there is some mountain police abroad that interferes with hikers' gear, I hear for the first time. It's more like wet dreams of some of our cops who want to roam the hills at taxpayers' expense.

Once during a winter ascent to Cima Ombrettola in the Dolomites I did meet cops, but they showed no interest in my gear at all - probably they had too much trouble themselves descending a 45-degree snowy slope with crampons and ski poles

About a week ago from Mangart Saddle it was visible that the summit gully was still heavily snowed.

They didn't have overly high expectations. When the snow was being removed behind the last tunnel, the wall was quite a bit more than 6 m high. You need to go see it during the action and not when it's all over.

This is probably partially written from memory, or by the method "finger on the map". There is no via ferrata leading to Forcella Sidon, as the author noted. However, it is incorrectly marked as such on the Tabacco map....