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Slovenia: Hike with Mountaineering over Na možeh to Palec

For today, Nada and me decided to go in the mountains and try more adventurous thing, hiking with a taste of climbing, graded UIAA II-III) . Our main destination was Na Možeh mountain ridge with 4 like looking peaks (each is called Mož = Man), the highest being 1784 meters high. Relatively hard accessible peak has lovely view to middle Karawanks. The most beautiful are Palec, Vrtača and Begunjščica. To the north is Drava valley and to the east are Košutica and Košuta.

Start of the mountaineering

View to the North

Climbing on the "1st man"

Below the rock

"1st man" was behind us

Nada on the peak of "2nd man"

Abseiling from the "3rd man"

On our way to Palec

South

Our ridge and Begunjščica, 2060 m

Our GeoCaching friends

View to the Austrian side

Friend at the top of Palec, 2026 m

View to Vrtača, 2181 m and Zelenjak, 2024 m

4 men - Na možeh

Hiking and mountaineering trip with Nada was a total success.

GeoCaching action:
- re-visited "Suho rusevje - ZLEB", GC21B98, where I dropped off 2 trackable items "Edelweiss", TB4JGEB and "Idaho BLue Bird", TBEE41 and made a visit with 2 more trackables "P Wee the penguin", TB33C54 and "Travel Pirate Geocoin", TB5D2YM.

In the evening we watched a climbing movie Nordwand, based on a famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face, the film is about two German climbers (Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser)involved in a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps.

Nordwand - A great movie