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Monte Calisio

https://simsoneblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/04/monte-calisio/

"If it's just about preserving nature then parking will be free, only number of spots limited"

Similar with radars. Here and in Austria they are everywhere.

Last year I drove in France and don't remember seeing any in villages. On main roads yes (and outside villages and highways), but not on side roads and small villages. There they nicely put speed bumps, islands in middle, zigzag side barriers, spread parking zigzag so practically you can't drive over 60.

So you see whose priority is fining, whose is traffic safety.

"If it's just about preserving nature then parking will be free, only number of spots limited"

Similar with radars. Here and in Austria they are everywhere.

Last year I drove in France and don't remember seeing any in villages. On main roads yes (and outside villages and highways), but not on side roads and small villages. There they nicely put speed bumps, islands in middle, zigzag side barriers, spread parking zigzag so practically you can't drive over 60.

So you see whose priority is fining, whose is traffic safety.

I don't see any ads.

Bagi, thanks for the description. This weekend I walked the first of the paths.

First warnings:

1. The path from the viewpoint above Koglje to Koča Premuda has quite a mountainous character, is exposed and, due to scree, dangerous for slipping. Caution is not superfluous, especially for lower mountain hikers who are not used to high mountain paths.

2. GPS app (Orux for me), not only welcome, but mandatory. Without it I would have got lost back to Slovenia already at Botač or gone on the otherwise nice panoramic path directly to Premuda (also closed for me around eleven, still closed), but missed the viewpoint above Koglje, which is definitely worth visiting.

Not to mention the labyrinth of paths and trails from Hrvati to and across Bazovica, all the way to the monument to the Bazovica victims. Further to Kokoš there are blue-white 'knafelj' markings.

Part of the path from Hrvati to Nemogoča jama runs above the climbing area and Via ferrata Bruno Biondi (was there about 5 years ago)

Except in the morning when it was about 2 to 3 below zero (a year and a day after Bagi's visit ), no special frost for me, no bora either. But in the morning, on the bike trail of the former line, it was already full of Italian cyclists even now. I rode this trail myself about 15 years ago (Kozina - Trieste - Opčine tram (still running then) - Orlek - Lipica - Bazovica - Kozina)

From the description of Nemogoča jama I learned that a commission was 'purposefully' established to explore it

Senza Confini (Creta di Colinetta) on that hardest part, a little after the start, before we reach the ridge.

Then with us at hiking trails it's like with road construction: you have to negotiate with each owner separately, each can blackmail and delay the project for years before the court grinds something out and construction can start.

In Austria, when they mark the route, the owners on it are automatically expropriated. That's how the project can start. Owners who are not satisfied with the compensation can then bicker in courts as they please, without hindering the construction progress.

I don't know how it is there with hiking trails, maybe similar. Yes, sometimes for the common good you also have to do something 'ours'. And I'm not advocating socialism, quite the opposite.

In Austria (I don't advocate that country either, there's a lot rotten there and their apparent finesse under which all the filth is swept - in Slovenia at least, more or less, you know the devil) there was an interesting case a few years ago when a landowner arbitrarily closed the path to Mirnock (Nockberge) and had a warning sign erected. The court, after a lengthy dispute, ruled in favor of the association, the owner had to remove the barrier, and of course she was hit with the costs of the proceedings and I don't know if there wasn't even compensation to the association.

As far as I know, the owner must allow movement on the hiking trail that runs through his land. Now, whether he can make skid roads across it or not, I don't know. Probably as long as it doesn't substantially obstruct movement on the hiking trail.

Another story is in Austria. There is no automatism there. The owner can in principle also close a hiking trail. There have been such cases, but usually the court in disputes always ruled in favor of the hikers or the verein, i.e. that movement is allowed or that the owner must remove the barrier.

So somewhere it's just case law, based on which probably few dare to do it, because they would most likely lose in court (court costs!). The owner probably needs a very good reason for it or to agree with the verein, consult a lawyer... No automatism!

The leash is not just for keeping the dog away from people, but also from wild animals it might attack. It can be ever so friendly to people, but different towards animals.

And ultimately also from dangers to itself, as predecessors mentioned. Wild animals can attack the dog too. Dog can run into a snake, ..., ... There are plenty such cases and dangers lurking for the dog. Dog is not a mountaineer or hiker but just an animal with instincts.

That no authority warns about the leash is of course again a Slovenian specialty or thinking it's not such a big violation. Yeah, in the city police overlook cyclists not having lights on at night, riding on the wrong side of the path, ..., saw with my own eyes a cop not even twitching at such violations. And we know both can be quite dangerous.

Dogs are basically not allowed in huts, but of course that's violated. But many caretakers are strict, so @ppegan surely got rejected somewhere. Especially abroad. In Italy they apparently tolerate dogs in dining rooms and lower areas sometimes, never in sleeping quarters.

That case (or similar) you mention happened about 10 years ago on Planjava. First, the girl supposedly strayed off the marked path onto pathless terrain, and second had the dog tied to herself. Which is complete nonsense of course.

Would comment on @N3jca too, whom I agree with otherwise. But defending the dog isn't always the best idea, as we can get bitten too. Better to release the dog from leash (yeah, that's why not tied), especially if it's a wild animal. There were cases where e.g. a wild boar attacked the dog, owner didn't release it and got bitten himself.

Best is to have some defense means for that. Pepper spray, for which I've been spat on here countless times, can be very useful also for dog defense, lately I carry an ultrasonic repeller too. It's friendlier to dogs but not 100% and question if it works on wild animals. On larger ones probably pepper spray is questionable too (there's special for bears, which foresters have e.g.). Then really best to release the dog. Our life is worth more than the dog's.

Just asking those with unleashed dogs if they dare that also in Italy and Austria?

Tiny, purely well-intentioned warning: In latter also in Croatia hunter can legally shoot your unleashed dog.

7.10.2023: all barriers from lake to Bele Vode closed, both morning and return. Don't get the point...

Then it's Via Eterna.

Congratulations! That you even walked up to Fedaia, I preferred waiting for the bus (3 EUR) one hour.

There was no Spanish flu,... yeah sure, it doesn't surprise me anymore what some antivaxxer blurts out, perfectly fitting statement from the one who insults others with carriage horses.

No covid no ebola no AIDS. Viruses and bacilli don't exist at all. Interesting. That we're sick every now and then is just imagination. And those who know someone who died from one of these diseases are lying or in the service of conspirators, whatever.

Including my colleague whose sister after surviving covid and consequent coma (because as antivaxxer she delayed treatment) is just a vegetable now or has to relearn everything, walking, speech,...

Will we here too, like with covid, come to occupation of topic by a few paid trolls working for certain political stream whose only literature are conspiracy sites and quasi-scientific ramblings and bangings?

Ban cyclists from riding on mountain paths. Amen! That's also the case in Austria. There they can't even ride on forest roads. Not even on their own responsibility.