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And as if on cue, snow has whitened our little country today:
http://www.grzs.si/ftp/dogodki/2012/DVG_LJ/DVG-GRS-LJ-IG-12.pdf

GRS Ljubljana is organizing on December 19th at Ig a safer movement course in mountains in winter conditions. The announcement is published on www.grzs.si
Jani Bele

And here's the problem. Italians equipped the path and "ferrata" with new cables, attracting many (especially foreign) hikers who choose our "easier" path for descent, which is officially closed. The upper part on descent is really awkward, so it is necessary to secure that part with a cable.

Asphalt road to Konec and to Jermanca, and there arranged asphalt parking lots for at least 50 cars. This probably (I hope) won't happen for a long time yet, so the valley will still be full of dust, exhaust fumes, roar of motor vehicles, damaged ground and vegetation due to parking... Since this page is mainly visited by lovers of pristine nature I'm sure everyone would give up the savings of half an hour of walking and be for setting up a barrier behind the Dom in Kamniška Bistrica.
Solution to the parking problem before the barrier is not the topic of this initiative.
Now I've equipped myself with an avalanche shovel, because probably an avalanche of remarks from "nature protectors" will pour on me.

Timetables here and abroad are for us, ordinary hikers. To Victorinox who as slowest team member beats these times by 50 percent
I suggest turning to some running forum. If you're good, you're good.

Sometimes parents are the biggest danger to children.

You'll have to give yourself the answer to this question. Don't expect it from someone who doesn't know you and don't trust someone you don't know either. Given the question posed, I'm wondering what you've been waiting for until now and why you can't wait a day for the snow to melt.

At the Czech slab below bivouac 4 I found a hat and gloves. 041 428 924

In the North Triglav Face there are the most rescues in the Slovenian Route. So...

In Dom pod Storžičem there's a new caretaker, the road, well, isn't exactly asphalt, at first, blink a bit here and there, and it goes.

If you're asking such a question, better stick to the "regular path".

And who goes to the mountains of neighboring countries nicely quietly throws euro coins into the machine so it raises the barrier for us or at toll booths pays hefty tolls for mountain roads.

Warning

The main mountaineering season is at the door. Mountain huts are opening and the number of mountain visitors is increasing. Due to the large amounts of snow that fell this winter, some sections of hiking trails, especially those on northern approaches and crossing gullies, are still under snow. It's futile to expect that hikers who are just now starting to go to the mountains will have equipment that prevents slipping (ice axe and crampons), so here are a few tips:
when planning a tour, inquire about the conditions on the path (hut keepers, hribi.net web forum, mountaineering groups on FB),
choose paths that lead to peaks on the southern sides.

And some facts:
on snow we can slip very quickly,
with every meter the sliding speed increases,
don't overly trust the footprints made by predecessors in the snow. Often under the footprints there is hard snow or ice,
with hiking poles we certainly won't be able to stop the sliding,
fallen rocks give us deceptive support on snow,
before starting to cross a snowfield, look where we would stop if we slipped,
if the snowfield doesn't have a safe exit after a few meters, make the only correct decision – end the ascent and return to the valley,
but if we don't follow this advice and somewhere in the middle of the snowfield, looking into the depth, our pants start shaking, don't look for an exit ourselves and rather call 112. But be aware that mountain rescuers won't be able to reach us in the next moment.

Jani Bele, Commission for Information and Analysis at the Mountain Rescue Association of Slovenia

In the picture: path from Okrešelj to Kamniško sedlo (photo Matjaž Šerkezi)

Piotr
About ways of moving, how more safely to the summits, speaks my first book - To the Summits. It would be a bit strange if I gave this new book the title Safer to the Summits, when the whole book talks about dangers. Mountains certainly are not dangerous by themselves - they become so when we find ourselves there: physically and mentally underprepared, unequipped, inexperienced. And according to GRZS statistics, the journalist gave my interview in Delo a quite correct title: Mountaineering - the most dangerous form of mass recreation.

I hope the administrator won't hold it against me too much if I do a little advertising here, but I think the book answers many questions posed in this thread.

I wrote a book about dangers in the mountains - Dangerously to the Summits. In it, through stories of people who experienced some danger, witnesses of accidents, mountain rescuers and my own experiences, I tried to depict all the main types of dangers we can encounter on our ascents in the mountains.
The book is already on the shelves.

In the village of Tigo, over the hanging bridge and left on path 707. Before the first houses in Gosta, right, and then the steepness does not let up to the top. Due to the slower pace, you can really enjoy the pine forest and higher up the beech forest. From the top, descent to the saddle before the forepeak (don't let the marking on the beech tree a few meters below the path mislead you). To the forepeak and then only down towards Rio Nero and along its gorge to the end, right over the bridge to the starting point. In this direction, it seems much more interesting to me, you just need a bit more fitness. The ascent in the opposite direction is also about an hour longer and those endless zig-zag turns above the hut can be really soul-destroying.
Really nice tour.

It looks like anyone can make a pigsty in nature here as they want. I'm wondering who owns the land.