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@potpodnoge, pure five for the comment.
I'm not a dog hater, I even had one for 15 years, but the levels of human and animal are still separate each, living spaces of animal and human nevertheless must be separated, also who is subordinate to whom and what is allowed to whom, otherwise really the owner's matter.

@maemi
you're right, it's equally magical in winter too (I was at Vel. vrh and Obzova), white Velebit, bora-cleansed air and frozen pond below near the mountain hut. Worth a winter jump to the sea.

and is that a bear print on picture 15 next to the gojzar?

I thought it was worse, I assume higher up there was more snow than ice, am I wrong? Thanks for the pics, nice.

@debebarbara,
thanks for the reply, you are the fastest way to pass on the conditions up there, helpful to me.

how did the trees on Jelovica fare with it, any better because higher up, or also there iced and broken?

vencelj1:
from Danje and Torka I have gone, from Soriska really not yet. But dialects of these parts are somewhat known to me. Will soon go on one of paths to Ratitovec.

I thought it was the other way around, but I never delved into it. Because of the beauty from Poden onwards this path is one of the most beautiful to Ratitovec for me.

@tol
yes it's true that Vel. planina still has the old chairlift, call it socialist if you want, and St. vrh also has a modern capitalist one. Both OK. And since I know a bit more about St. vrh, I follow the completely misguided public debates or accusations against STC. Yes, St. vrh really secured the season, the company regularly meets obligations and makes profit every year from operations despite regular payments to everyone, including Hypo bank. The mess was brewed by capitalist greed of bankers and unintentionally everyone would have pushed in a company that "supposedly calculated" it. Big + for the people working there to keep St. vrh alive and modernizing it. Complete counter-example is Vel. planina and Kobla (big -), which have been in deep winter sleep for at least 20 years. Incidentally, no major interventions in forests or nature for the modernization at Stari vrh.

Anyway BZ, it's nice and fir trees and prealpine and overlooks from Blegoš and Porezen.

I too often watch lantern carriers from the balcony returning via the path "over the ridge" to the valley. The path to Lubnik (from Šk. Loka) is almost always trodden even in heavier snowfall, but in such conditions it often ices up.

We had democracy 20 or more years ago, what we have today is legalized fraud and scam. I agree with @VanSims on everything else.

just correction @AS, second picture is view towards Lajnar peak, Slatnik is to the right.

This sounds nice.

@viharnik, that winter was '86/87, when so much snow fell. Even schools were closed for 2 days. I haven't seen that much snow in the lowlands either before or after. But there was such a dry winter in '75, I remember, when there was no artificial snow, cams, internet,..., when we arrived in February at the green Soriska plain, how to ski then, so we just turned back easily.