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Ježa (Kolovrat)

boma26. 01. 2014 16:52:18

Today's hike from Valentin Stanič's home below Ježa to Ježa: snow just a sample at the start, on Ježa about 15 cm. The path then led us also to Grad, the hill on the border with Italy. On the top 20-40 cm in drifts. Nice sunny day spent on the snow.

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Tolminc19. 03. 2017 08:46:20

Yesterday's circular path Solarji - Ježa - Očna - 9th konfin - Solarji.

http://sine771.blogspot.si/2017/03/jeza-949-m-ocna-906-m-in-9-deveti.html

velkavrh29. 09. 2017 07:39:50

Yesterday the Škofja Loka hikers visited Kolovrat. From Tolmin we drove to the village of Volče and to the Solarie saddle, where we viewed the open-air museum. There we have a little house that serves as an observation point. Next to it are panels informing us about the history of Kolovrat. Above the house is a viewpoint. On the other side of the parking lot at the Salarie saddle there is a series of shooting trenches and shelters that they have cleaned, renovated and arranged as an open-air museum. There we even have a logbook box. It's really pleasant to walk through the entire system of these trenches and shelters - it even goes a bit underground. We concluded that the soldiers must have stayed quite dry, as the tunnels and passages are narrow. These tunnels and shelters overlooked the valley below and had an excellent position for defense and observation. Below this ridge during Yugoslavia there stood a quite large guard post with accompanying buildings - the watchtower still stands alone. The guard post and accompanying buildings seem to have been abandoned at the formation of the state of Slovenia or earlier - I don't know and today they are just ruins.

We continued walking almost the entire Kolovrat ridge. Somehow it goes partly along the Italian-Slovenian border. We went down on the Italian side past the monument to the first fallen Italian soldier on Kolovrat. Along the asphalted road on the Italian side you can see several caverns, but they are not accessible. Via Ježa we went to the Valentin Stanič hut, which they opened and served us just for us. A new asphalted road leads to the hut. It seems that this season the hut was not open due to renovation of the hut and road.

In the area between Soča and the Friulian plain rises the luxuriously scenic Kolovrat ridge. It reaches up to 1243 m. It consists of a series of ridges about 4 km long. This area above Tolmin was occupied by the Italian army during WWI and they built an extensive defense system: command and observation posts, machine gun and artillery positions, taverns and a network of shooting trenches. Today these remains are arranged as an open-air museum, which is part of the Walk of Peace and along the entire ridge we encounter signs - Walk of Peace.

At the start of the trenches there is a box.

The system of trenches and other defensive positions extended along the entire Kolovrat.

Then down the Italian side - monument to the first fallen Italian soldier on Kolovrat.

At the former Italian border guard post and border crossing.

On the wall of the guardhouse we can even see a number of panels informing about curiosities in these parts.

Here is already the fire station at Staničevi dom under Ježa.

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Mrki29. 09. 2017 09:13:05

If the taverns had been open, I would have joined you!

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palček plezalček29. 09. 2017 09:26:42

tavern = pub
cavern = cave for protection against attacks
(picture 20 and second paragraph)

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turbo29. 09. 2017 09:48:41

It's not the first time he wrote it wrong, there has already been quite a bit written about caverns and taverns nasmeh

(too) fast fingers mežikanje

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Mrki29. 09. 2017 13:26:24

Palček plezalček, see my call to Branko for explanation:
https://www.hribi.net/trenutnerazmere.asp?slo=1&gorovjeid=1&id=1619&stran=2

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palček plezalček29. 09. 2017 14:16:25

I know that it has already been written about this and other terms, but since there are slips or other kinds of mistakes, I just pointed it out. There are words that are often used and their usage is close to us, and others where mistakes happen. Nothing bad, the main thing is that with common efforts we reach new insights.

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velkavrh17. 07. 2019 04:09:10

So after two years we are back here - this time with another group of retirees from PD Škofja Loka - we are the Monday group. But we didn't walk any less than the Thursday group two years ago. Start was at the saddle below Livški Kuk. We walked the entire Kolovrat ridge, which is somehow about four km long. We move all the time somehow on the border between the countries. The path is nice, a bit up, a bit down. All along there are signs that this is the Path of Peace. In between there is also a sign on which peak of Kolovrat we are. We stopped at the bivouac and the monument to the first fallen Italian soldier here in WWI. We ended the hike at Grad - that's the final peaklet of the Kolovrat ridge, where there is an open-air museum. We walked through these defensive positions. Here was the Italian military command of this sector in WWI.

Monument at the pass near bivouac Zanuso.

Kolovrat has three peaks - this is Trinški vrh - 1138 m.

Towards the Solarie saddle and the third peak Na Gradu. Here was the Italian command of this section of the Italian defensive line on the Soča front.

Viewing Italian defensive positions at Na Gradu. This is an open-air museum. They have wonderfully restored these positions.

tulipan17. 07. 2019 07:45:03

Brane, did you look at the monument when Giuseppe Zanuso killed himself. The monument to the first fallen is at the Solarje pass! But it was here that the breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian army began.

tulipan17. 07. 2019 07:51:38

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5VV22_nbt-bivacco-giuseppe-zanuso?guid=4bd0b8db-0a57-49ed-bcd2-5d3ea9fe739d

https://www.turismofvg.it/Monumento-Al-Primo-Caduto-Della-Grande-Guerra-Kolovrat

velkavrh17. 07. 2019 11:42:07

This time I really didn't see it. It's about soldier Riccardo di Giusta - he fell on 24 May 1915. I photographed it two years ago.

sim1112. 05. 2022 09:24:18

Paths from the Mountain Hut below Ježa are normally passable. Hut open on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, exceptionally closed on Saturday, May 7, for 27th Hike in footsteps of Valentin Stanič, Sunday, May 8, normal, open also Friday, May 27, 2022, when 19th stage of famous Italian bike race near hut: https://www.rtvslo.si/sport/kolesarstvo/dirka-po-italiji/uradno-giro-2022-v-posocju-s-tezkim-vzponom-na-kolovrat/600463

New moon at the mountain hut under Ježa.

zvončnica23. 05. 2022 18:02:14

Mountain hut below Ježa prepared in anticipation

Giro 2022 in Posočje with difficult climb to Kolovrat

this week open also Friday 27.5.2022

19th stage Marano Lagunare-Santuario di Castelmonte for 35 km also into Slovenia.
Organizers of 105th Tour of Italy announced varied stages of next pink race, including 19th stage which Friday May 27 2022 turns to Posočje and leaves Slovenia after 10-km ascent with nearly 10% average to Kolovrat.