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This morning in front of the Filmoor hut I emptied my 17kg heavy backpack halfway and then in one hour reached Grosse Kinigat. There were already some hikers and more were coming so I didn't stay too long on top and soon descended back to the hut.
Originally I planned to go to Porze hut but due to the forecast of worsening weather the next day I turned towards the valley and quickly made a new plan. I descended about 250m then turned left to Auserssatel 2280m where I turned north and went along the ridge to Hocheck summit 2477m. New logbook is under two larger stones. From the top I descended along the ridge to the saddle and then left into the basin to some pasture where some guy yelled at me that I turned "wrong" and there's no passage to the valley there. I checked my Garmin and indeed saw the path goes some 300m further right which meant over the hill. So I had to climb another 150m anyway although I originally thought I could avoid the ascent over Ofenspitze 2334. At the saddle I really found the path and quickly descended to the road at Kartitscher saddle 1530m. There I hitchhiked more than an hour until a cute Italian woman with a messy Punto and an already full car stopped for me. She drove me to the end of Kartitsch village from where it was only 3km to my car in Hollbruck and those last three km I walked with a smile after three wonderful days in Carnic Alps. In Hollbruck I also checked the open church and read surnames on small cemetery, mainly only three repeat. The third night I slept in the car somewhat away from main road.

After spending the night in the shepherd's hut below Hollbrucker Spitze, I climbed in the morning to the monument for soldiers from WWI at the Hochgrantenjoch saddle 2429m. From there I continued along the ridge of the Carnic Alps from west to east along path 403 and 03. This path crosses the entire Carnic Alps from Sillian in Tyrol to Thorl-Maglern near Tarvisio and is about 150km long. The ridge borders Austria and Italy for much of the time and there are remains from WWI on most of the path. I climbed further over the summit Demut 2592m and Schontalhohe 2635m to Eisenreich 2665m where I had a longer stop to do what I intended. I continued with the descent towards Obstanser See where there is also a hut but before the lake I turned right and continued over the summit Cima Frugnoni 2561m to the saddle Obstanser Sattel 2462m. From there the path led along the ridge to Pfannspitze 2678m where I stopped for half an hour and did what I had planned. On the summit after a day and a half I met the first hikers who then steadily came to the top. Followed a steep descent and another ascent over a few peaks below Kleine Kinigat 2674, which was my next goal. No path leads to it and I climbed to its western summit via quite crumbly terrain, which is about 200m from the main one. Couldn't go further so I descended cat-like and tried about 200m further east via steep scree, by which I reached a gully by which one could somehow get near the summit. I figured I was a bit late anyway and so skipped Grosse Kinigat 2689m as there was already dense cloud above it. So I didn't do on little Kinigat what I intended. I descended only to the Filmoor hut and arranged accommodation in the already full hut. For the last five years one of the caretakers there is also a young guy Luka from Lienz, who speaks Slovenian fluently as his mom is from Ljubljana.

I was on Kotel in 2013 and I know it's very steep. If someone wants even steeper and more remote summit it's Znojilski vrh 1148m where I was in winter 2012 and on return I didn't dare down the same snowy steep to village Znojile but went far east along the ridge. Otherwise in Baška grapa there are still hidden treasures like Sopota waterfall or Dicova voda spring ....and more but we usually just drive past quickly to Soča valley.

@dm72 nice that you posted such nice pics, so I can see where I was hiking on Saturday 28.09 . It was cloudy and foggy up to 2600m and only sunny at the top so I was alone up there .

Macesnovec

Yes it's Kališnikovo poldne or Kalisnikturm 1575m. ben then you also went past that sign. Actually access from the west is easier where I descended and you can find here and there a modest path. Continue.

Congratulations šodrovc, the answer is in the quotes.

Not Jerebičje, I'll help a bit more with another summit pic.

Since vandica1 steps aside, I'll attach a fresh pic from Saturday. Which peak did I climb from this side?

To make it harder for you to decide, here's some information about a mountaineering school that is just starting near Ljubljana. Since there are enough instructors at Rašica and some GV, that is already a guarantee that the program is of high quality.



http://ao.rasica.org/novice.php


http://ao.rasica.org/prikaz.php?stran=as_program

On Saturday I drove to the parking lot under Beli potok in Jezerska valley and climbed along marked path 654 to Škrbina under Škraplje. The path leads pleasantly through the forest on a mule track and towards the end more directly to the saddle. Just below the saddle I turned left from the marked path towards the new bivouac Daniele Bertolutti named after the young caver who died in 2006. Already on the way to the bivouac there are many remnants from WWI, around the bivouac even more. The path to the bivouac is easy. My goal was Veliki Snežni vrh 1972m. Already in the logbook at the bivouac I noticed that the peak was visited by Italian alpinists only three to four times in 2009 and 2010, later no more. From the bivouac I went along a path between caverns eastwards and the steep slope of V. Snežni vrh wasn't far. The path soon ended and cairns guided me further. The terrain soon became very demanding with many screes, karst sinks, short walls and bushes. Soon I realized I must strictly follow the cairns (one or two stones on a rock), elsewhere the terrain is impassable. Each time I lost the right direction a bit I had to go back to the last cairn and search passages anew. Here it really holds that you're faster if you go slowly and constantly observe the terrain and especially where you step! On open terrain it was still ok, while for the right passage through the bushes I tried several times. When after a long time I extricated from the scree labyrinth I found a steep grassy cone by the wall and started climbing it. Higher the cone turned into a narrow gully with enough vegetation to pull myself up. At the end of the gully I turned left to the first subpeak, with a small detour right I reached the top of Veliki Snežni vrh. The views are really beautiful, so I stayed on top more than an hour and later returned the same "path" to the rock and bush labyrinth. The descent didn't go quite smoothly but I wrote enough about difficulties
I also can't really recommend the tour especially not to solo hikers like I was this time. Trip to the bivouac and poking around military fortifications and viewing positions will be a quite pleasant little tour to this remote end. Good luck!!

Yes, Črni vrh it is
@macesen1 post the next riddle

Yes, they are very close, you see Bavški Grintavec left, in the middle the tip of Zapotoški vrh and right Srebrnjak but not Javoršček. lp

No no not from there, cca 100km further west in Julian Alps in Posočje. The peak is very lonely and hardly gets any visit. Lp

Not in KSA.

A completely fresh picture from last week. From which lonely hill did I take this?

Lisca