| j.18. 04. 2022 23:37:00 |
Yesterday (Sunday, April 17) from Markova ravn by hunting path to Planina Ovčarija. To Mokrica, Kompotela, summit and Planina Košutna, down to Dedec and further to the starting point.
From Markova ravn a transverse hunting path leads, which disappears a bit on the cleared landslide, but just keep going. It meets the hunting path from the quarry about a hundred elevation meters before the rock barrier, where this path forks. I went the left, steeper variant. I hardly found the junction, as the path completely disappears in places there, and on the remains full of slippery leaves and small roots. From the fixed cable onwards no more problems.
From the hunting hut at about 1410m to Planina Ovčarija there are three paths: Over the ridge (Debeli hrib), past Medvedja jama and the lower path. I don't know why I chose the lower one, which branches at the first bend. Some snow sections I successfully crossed without crampons (snow frozen underneath, on top a few cm of slushy, nasty). Only from the path along the ridge of Mokrica did I see how heavily snowed the area of both upper paths is. In front of Medvedova jama there is a pile of snow at least a meter high, if not more. A few hundred meters traverse of steep forest in unreliable snow would be a special story, which I avoided only by luck.
The path to Mokrica is hardly visible anymore, but comfortably brought me to the ridge over overly warm and dry grasses. On the north side of the ridge between Kompotela and Mokrica it's a completely different picture. Winter, with sparse dwarf pines sticking out of the snow. On the ridge wind was blowing, indeterminate directions. Seemed to me once from the north, then again from the south. Towards Mokrica you have to descend a bit, for a while I wandered on the boundary between dwarf pines and snow, then put on crampons.
The path to Kompotela was completely snowed, between dwarf pines it often broke through dangerously. On the slope below the summit I sank to my waist into a hole between snow and ground. Just a little missing, and I would have lost balance and injured myself with crampons.
To the summit of Košutna and further to Planina Košutna the snow was sun-exposed, hardly sinking. Anyway, on this rugged, hilly plateau world it had already taken quite a bit. The pasture itself is south enough to be already bare, no wind, warm and friendly. Last time I was here, I saw somewhere a plaque in memory of a 13-year-old boy buried by an avalanche 60 years ago. This time I didn't find it.
At the interesting ramp, where to the right leads the passage to Planina Koren, I went down the path between dwarf pines. For a while nothing special, then the path crosses a short but very steep grassy slope. A few steps further it descends into a gully and then down, where you have to climb a bit over a short drop (nothing serious). On the steep slope with stepped grassy ledges below the drop, hardly visible, it leads to the saddle by Dedec (1550 m). There it meets the path coming from the hunting hut below Debeli hrib.
From Dedec to the marked path another 10 minutes or so, further to the car at Markova ravn half an hour. Wouldn't philosophize. But crampons, ice axe, gaiters and sunscreen are definitely imperative for the tour in such conditions these days. Some more photos of the conditions I posted on Modrina neba.
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