TinaInIztok - Recent messages

Kolar,

sorry for late reply, shortly after your question snow started, so ...

You've probably tried everything yourself by now, but I wanted to add one more opinion.
Wear on hiking boots is really greater when they are clipped in bindings, but otherwise I don't know how bad, especially if you're not obsessed with everything having to be "shined" - I, for example, have been boarding a lot the last two years using over 10 years old hiking boots that I had already used a lot before, and except for slight scrapes where the bindings go over, there are no signs of wear (for example, the lace marks are much more noticeable ).

I would like to emphasize that it's good to wear (especially if going for longer) some really thick socks, sufficiently long pants or some winter improvised "shin guards", because it can chafe a bit at the back where the binding backrest touches the leg, and the experience can be unjustly worse than otherwise - well, at least my little hikers are much lower than ski boots and the binding backrest comes directly onto the leg.

Otherwise, as already mentioned, when choosing shoes (hikers, ski boots), it depends on everything about the individual. If you're more accustomed to stiff ski boots and board mostly on hard pistes or terrain, hikers might not appeal to you, but on soft terrain they can give that extra sense of softness and feel that ski boots can't.
Two years ago a hard blister appeared on the sole in ski boots and they were no longer usable; meanwhile someone here on the forum told me they board in hikers - and I thought I wouldn't go back to ski boots - even when I tried last year with stiffer and heavier winter hikers (otherwise I have fairly soft or already softened summer ones), it wasn't as nice anymore, so just find one day (or two ) to find a hill nearby and try all variants, and always take at least a screwdriver, pliers and some extra gear with you - after all, the charm of boarding is also in screwing around with the settings and adjusting the gear to exhaustion

Fingers crossed that this new snow reaches as low as the lowlands

Iztok

I'm wondering from which starting point it's best to start here if you want to board all the way down. Somehow I got from the descriptions that all three described paths meet somewhere, but I'd rather ask anyway, because tomorrow looks like a very nice day and we were thinking of going to check if anything can be ridden

Hi, thanks for warning.

I planned to go only if avalanche risk on their side no higher than 2.
And I already found out that although it looks inviting as footpath, if lots of snow don't use that transport-rescue road. Supposedly it gets covered several times?

Does anyone know about avalanche conditions around Tamar?

Anyway if too high avalanche risk probably means plenty snow also in foothills and hills

Hi,

I'll finally get home next week and me and my girl planned to go boarding on Saturday (2. 3.) and we don't have many enthusiasts around for such activity either - especially for that first part when you have to hike up

I hear some spring thaws forecasted for end of February, but hope meteorologists flipped some equation and it'll happen only end of March

Our experiences with Alps are still in infancy - we don't like groomed ski resorts anyway, so we board mostly in our Zasavje hills (which is of course also great and especially peaceful), but we've been in alpine world rarely - we thought to start maybe at Zelenica or similar, need to check and coordinate - other ideas welcome too

So if weather and conditions allow, we'll definitely go and I'd be very glad if someone joins

But I have one more question for those with more experience. Namely, how good are snowshoes in practice (for now I only have crampons, no snowshoes yet)- especially how they handle/how practical e.g. on very steep ascent?

Nice greetings all and hope to see someone soon

Iztok