| rozka16. 09. 2019 19:14:23 |
When I was standing on Žrd a few years ago, a blissfully smiling Italian came puffing along the ridge, "bellissimo, bellissimo," were his only words, my Italian knowledge was too poor for more, but his face said more than our broken chatter Of course, I was curious where he came from to the summit. I search the all-knowing internet, but "zero" hits , I try a bit more and yes, caught in a word slip, better letter slip… since the "main" summit Žrd, I simply started from that word and searched for Žrdinica, but somehow it led me to the right name, ŽDrinica and the all-knowing friend found it too, only two Slovenian descriptions though. Probably hasn't changed much since then, a little-known ridge, which is somehow an extension or beginning of my beloved Žrd, where the views carry you to the little Zverinice in Resia, or the view caresses the Kanin valley, all the way there, to the giants above Pečol. The morning wasn't the earliest, and the first steps heavy too, but the path quickly warms you up and wakes you. Started in Reklanica, in the hamlet Pezzeit, on path number 633, which isn't drawn as marked on Tabc. map 027, but only dashed, unmarked. Really picturesque, steep and one of those splendidly laid out paths. Arrived at Buje saddle in about 2:12h, not bad and we treat ourselves to a well-deserved snack. My eyes were already wandering to the steepness above us, as I wasn't quite clear where or how she tackled it . In the first attempt we plunge straight into the initial steep on the left, which turns out not the best, so we descend back to the marked path, go to the first bend of Ta Visoka Rezijanka, a bit behind the same-named sign, where we dig into the steep grass, and somehow crawl up, read me, to the ridge. My companion was like on a stroll, I was picking bouquets again, and grabbing ground vegetation . Well, the ridge, wow, views opened on all sides and we almost bumped into one of the two cairns on the whole path. For me, this part of the ridge up to Pizzo di Mezzodì was the most exposed and awkward. Really steep grass, though passages, well, some harder, some less, a bit of scrambling, a bit of gardening, hehe, high exposure, but fog hid the depths below us, although the marked path isn't far. From Pizzo di Mezzodì onwards it's grassy, here and there rocky ridgelet, nothing harder, up to the first rocky step, which my companion attacks straight on, I slip to the right and ease the ascent a bit, then we're already before the infamous hardest part of the tour, the so-called Prevčev stolp. We two also took the left variant and that narrow ledge, small damp tufts of grass, below just emptiness again, but fine for some thrill, my buddy laughs at my huge eyes and fidgeting again, hheee. From here on it's just pleasant, quite a bit long walk to the top and yippee, Ždrinice ridge finally hiked. On top of Žrd the sun caresses us and we take quite a long time, the last visitors leave the summit, so we really enjoy the silence and views. Descent to Tamaroz was planned, but given the late hour, we decide to descend from the top along the "roof", which is tedious and drags on, and then along traverse 632 to Buje saddle and express to Pezzeit.
Well, the ridge, just because it's little-known or unknown, is very attractive to me, unvisited, value increases and it's long, with lots of elevation, all reasons it was on the wishlist for quite some time. We were both thrilled, although my companion would probably want to touch more rock, but mostly it's about walking and overcoming the length of the ridge.
It was a perfect day… another one, somewhere up there
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