Winter is my favorite time of the year, and the more snow the merrier. Yesterday’s afternoon hike destination was Tamar glacier valley. We parked our car at Planica ski jumping parking and then proceeded by foot on a snow covered road to the Tamar mountain cabin. Here’s a few shots from the hike.
Always remember, a fallen soldier
Always remember, fathers and sons at war
Always remember, a fallen soldier
Always remember, buried in historySabaton, 40:1
Visiting places like these, always brings back some Sabaton songs, singing about the war and the soldiers that never came home. Soca valley was the place of “Isonzo front” during the World War 1 and anyone visiting this place today, has a hard time believing how nearly a hundred years ago, Austro-Hungarian, German and Italian armies were fighting eachother over one of the most beautiful Alpine valleys. Even today, the valley is ful of war artefacts and from time to time they still find unexploded munitions. Unfortunately each war comes with casaulties and the pictures below show Austro-Hungarian graveyard which became final resting place of 546 soldiers, who gave their lives during the last AH assault on Italian lines and pushed them up to Piave river.
Hear the sound of a machinegun
Hear it echo in the night
Mortals firing rains the scene
Scars the fields
that once were greenIt’s a stalemate at the frontline
where the soldiers rest in mud
roads and houses
all is gone
there is no glory to be won
Kriška gora is a 5km mountain range above the place I live, spanning from cabin at Kriška gora (1.471m) in the West to the Tolsti vrh peak (1.715m) in the East. Hike is not too difficult but can be pretty steep at some places. Starting from Golnik, you need about an hour to reach the small village of Gozd, where the slopes of Kriška gora greet you upon exiting forest path. There you decide wether to proceed inbound cabin (lots of people do, as they have great food) or continue East inbound Tolsti vrh. We decided to take this route and after a couple of hours reached the peak. I have to say it was the last beautiful day of Autumn that day, with temperatures in 20C range and such hike was very pleasant.
The slopes of Tolsti vrh greet you with beautiful views which only get better the higher you go.
Bohinj with its lake and surrounding mountains has become one of my favorite places in our country and I’m returning there quite often. A week ago we spent 3 beautiful days there and here’s a few snapshots.
Generous ammounts of rain have generated a true mushroom boom these days.
There are different ways to cool down on hot summer days. One, albeit quite hot in the process, is to climb some mountain – there’s always fresh at the top. Last weeks destination was Lake Krn – our biggest glacier lake in the high mountains at 1.394m of elevation.
Climb starts at the Klement Jug mountain cabin in the Lepena valley
Some people hate low temperatures but I think you have to cherrish the Nature, not matter how it manifests itself. Very low temperatures of the past weeks caused the Bled lake to freeze and hey – how many times do you have a chance to walk to the lake’s island? Pics were taken this Friday evening.
Krnica Valley can be found near Kranjska Gora, just by the Russian road to Vrsic pass. Park your car somewhere between lakes Jasna and the bridge over Pišnica river and take a hike on a gravel path just before crossing the bridge. You are greeted with a nice and easy one hour walk from bridge to the Mountain hut Krnica at 1.113m. Most of the time, you’re greeted with fabolous views of Razor, Prisojnik and Škrlatica mountains surrounding the valley. Since you are walking towards the south, you’re facing the sun most of the time, so I’ve decided for playing a bit with five step exposure HDR photography.
One April workday we decided to go for a roadtrip up one of the nearby alpine gravel roads leading to the Košuta ridge in Karavanke Alps. Never been there before, not knowing which of the many roads to take, we just took the first 
We arrived at the plain between Planina Šija and Tegoška planina. Here’s a few photos of that beautiful day, where/when we felt, we are alone in the world.
You have to love our meteorologists – they forecast cloudy with precipitation and the actual weather can be seen on the photos below. Anyway, a sauna relaxation was quickly replaced with a photo trip to one of Slovenia’s natural wonders – Cerknica lake. If you are wondering what’s so special about this lake – it’s intermittent (disappearing) and is filled with water in late winter/ spring and during times of strong rainfall. The lakebed is karstic terrain which enables it to appear and disappear. When full of water, it is the largest lake in Slovenia and reaching around 38 sq km.
When clock stops ticking and time stands still
A tranquil image of the lake can be deceptive
180deg rotation?
just a reflection of beautiful skies and Slivnica summit in the background
tranquility
And just to give you an idea how the lake looks from Slivnica
You are in the middle of the winter, a shitload of bad weather behind you and the forecast predicts a chance of sun in the Alps – what to do? Pack the gear, skis and drive to the mountains of course. Destination this Sunday (suitable name, ain’t it ) was Velika Planina at Kamnisko-Savinjske Alpe. Small mainly family oriented skiing resort in the winter and idilic cow shepherds villages during the rest of year.
Upon arriving at the upper station of cable-car, such a view greeted us and promissed a great day on the snow.
Throught the desert of Seth… 
I’m in love with snow and cold, I can’t help myself
A view towards the beautiful snow covered mountains in the North.
Some were enjoying skiing…
…while others were enjoying the view of milky seas below us
One of the shepherd’s villages covered in snow…
…and baking in the winter sun
