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27.5.2016 While reading Roklun's report
http://www.hribi.net/izlet/playa_del_socorro_pico_del_teide_/144/2603/5818

many people catch themselves wanting to try something like that too. My wife and I were back on Tenerife in May and due to logistics, repeating the whole route is really tricky as returning to the valley in the evening is impossible. We decided on an adapted version from the coast to the summit. Yesterday we split the crew in half. The cycling part started on the bike a bit above the coast, the car part moved to the starting point from the most suitable spot at 2300m. We locked the rented bike safely in the car and headed to El Teide. The more cautious car part turned around about 200m below the summit due to the storm, the cycling part went almost on its knees to the top. It blew his cap off. The summit picture is thus from last year as taking a photo this year would be impossible. The cable car stopped running already during the day, so no one checked our "no-permits". Let the GPS track be proof of the ascent to the summit.

Over the weekend I wanted before moonrise, so in complete darkness between 11pm and 2am to photograph the dark sky with the Milky Way, as Vršič is currently the highest point we can drive to. Disappointment!
I don't understand why Tičarjeva koča is equipped with a spotlight? Such a strong light doesn't belong in the mountains, as lighting into the dark night makes no sense!
I wonder what motive the manager or caretaker of the hut has for such behavior!?
The hut should have a light sign and not a spotlight.
Attaching pictures!

Turbo - Everyone unwittingly reveals with their forum statement what kind of character they are….
Lame!? For you? You probably think you hurt me with an offensive remark?
I'm not getting into a debate about who's right! Consider my initiative lame if you want.
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I always enthusiastically read about Red Bull's feats that were beyond my abilities and recalled the years when I could easily do something similar myself…
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Similarly, Marijana & Marko once thrilled on this forum with exceptional feats, including the mentioned one-day tour with all logistical traps: Vrata - Škrlatica - B Gamsovec- Luknja - Triglav - Vrata. At almost sixty I managed to repeat it, only it didn't last just 10 hours but a bit more. Lame!? Depends on who you ask… Fortunately we people have different motives for visiting mountains. I wouldn't call any of them lame!

With such an early start in nice weather you can also afford a jump over B Gamsovec to Triglav and then to Vrata.... Challenge!? Not utopia, verified...!

No one can take responsibility for such advice. ARSO forecasts extremely unstable conditions for the mountain world! * Once long ago, before the era of weather radars, the caretaker at Pogačnik's home "directed" us in the morning to Škrlatica saying that the weather would be OK. Never before or after were we so soaked in the mountains. Admittedly, later, when we gave up on Škrlatica, it cleared up and in Sovatna we changed our wet clothes for dry ones. With thunder, it could have ended differently on some ridge. Trusting the caretaker was not the right decision. Did you understand!?

Snow in the mountains and clearing over the weekend might reward visitors with views to the horizon, namely with a rare combination of lush greenery and distant white peaks... some impressions from the last visit a few years ago might be a hint for a visit!

Čisti vrh remains a distant island of peace and beautiful views... we didn't meet anyone... the green color of young beeches has almost climbed to the border...

pika perfectly captured yesterday's impressions from Snežnik... adding some more "views"

From data on hribi.net I put together a table for fun that reveals activities of 5 selected long-time posters on this forum. We all posted one report in the last 3 days. Darinka delights us all year with many reports, she's my birth year, but we haven't met yet. I've met Ločanka and lijaneja in person and both attach lots of photos to the report. Ločanka has a nice habit of labeling panoramas with peak names, which seems more than welcome for lesser-known mountains. All three are among the absolutely most active. Added Piko, whom I haven't (yet) met and who by style and frequency falls into the same category as me. She posts tour descriptions rarely, but chooses photos wisely and each post gets lots of visits. Maybe someone laughs at the table!? Stats include every reply or comment, which blurs the value of the numbers a bit....

Vošca is a convenient target for escaping the fog when it covers most of the lowlands. We were surprised that there were few visitors today, with my daughter we noticed only three. Usually December visits required at least gaiters, today there was only the last 15 minutes of walking on hard snow. Maybe it will attract someone in the next days.

Šmarna gora and Grmada offer in good weather views to quite distant horizon. North to Obirja ~40 km, south to Snežnik ~60 km, by my estimate the farthest point SE Trdinov vrh ~80 km. West Triglav is ~55 km away. Every view in the opposite direction cheers me up, as I often searched in vain for the pair Šmarna gora and Grmada in haze and smog. Today it showed nicely from nearby Tošča ~11.5 km.

Yesterday the views from the peak were already almost wintry.. the colorfulness of the larches in the final phase...

The view from the "home hill" is taken from Grmada. This southern "part" of the more famous Šmarna gora even has its own description on these pages with many approaches... https://www.hribi.net/gora/grmada/5/451, on the forum we find plenty of Slovenian Grmadas and one just for access to Grmada via climbing path https://www.hribi.net/trenutne_razmere/slo/grmada_-plezalna_pot/5/934. Since tinky no longer informs us about current conditions on Šmarna gora after 2023, rarely does anyone think it's worth posting a nice picture, e.g. as a hint for escaping above the fog expected in the coming days and weeks... Praise to Peter P for the Sunday post.... Grmada is also my home hill, as I see the entire southern slope from my yard... In winter months, walking to Grmada is friendlier and lonelier than ascending the northern neighbor...

Yesterday fifth year in a row almost same time on this wonderful peak with interesting name that offers exceptional views... fog up to 1600 m...

For observing the interesting lunar eclipse Šplevta seemed almost ideal choice, of course assuming clear weather. Cloudiness in the east led me to a more comfortable spot a bit lower. Unfortunately cirrus cloudiness was so thick that Moon broke through only around 21h, when total eclipse was already over. But it cleared nicely after 23h, when landscape got interesting touch of magic. If B2 wasn't occupied, probably would have bivied midnight photography. Morning jump to Dovški križ and down screes to Vrata.

Praiseworthy description of a long and quite demanding tour... you probably took quite some hours despite the fast pace, as on these pages we find a description that the ascent to Razor alone takes 7h10 (which seems overestimated to me)... maybe someone is interested in how much time you actually walked? *** A few years ago with my son we completed a similar loop, but included ascent through the 2nd window to Prisojnik, which took 8 h... almost Red Bull pace. For such long loops it's relatively hard to find a description or rating on hribi.net...

On picture 10, it might be the rapontica rarely seen with us https://tecen.si/stemmacantha-rhapontica/