Nada again celebrates her 23rd birthday and in the evening we had an easy recreational sledding with a party in our house. We all enjoyed delicious homemade food and drinks. Cheers Nada!
We woke up in the morning with the smell of freshly baked upgraded Belokranjska pogača and fresh white snow.
My nephews came with new beanies, made by Nada's grandma. The new fashion line is called Grandma's Beanie - Babina kapa.
Ascending in fresh snow
Attendees of the birthday sledding: Tilen, Alenka, Aleš, Andreja, Tim, Matic, Klara, Aleš, Rok, Tuši and Nada
Snow conditions are still good, so our society from work organized another sledding event, with Koča na Ljubelju as our destination. Five members of ŠKD Indijanci came early in the morning and we had one our of fun before work.
Roman (romtim) invited me to find one of the more difficult caches around Šmarna gora and I joined him. We had to find 2 feeders and then locate a cache. We were quite quick at that and then I had to use some climbing skills to reach it. Since our task was finished quickly we decided to visit a cave on the slopes of Šmarna gora, that few people know, called Matjaž cave. We finished the day with a beer.
It was snowing at the night so GeoCaching wasn't such a good idea, but since I expected, that there is not so much snow on the South, I still decided to go. On my way to Srednja Kanomlja I picked up my first "Webcam cache" and then I started searching for 30 trail caches. On my way towards the highest point, Vrh, 798 m, the snow blanket was thicker and thicker, still due to good spoilers I found all caches. On my way back down the result was a bit worse, since I had to skip 3 of them, still the overall result was good.
The trail also led me to some great places:
Kanomlja Water Barriers, built in 1813 for the purpose of floating timber used in the mine.
Šturmajce, homestead in Gorenja Kanomlja, one of the most important homesteads in the Idrija region, first mentioned in 1335. Click for more.
Pr' Ivaniš, small farm blacksmith shop where the smith used charcoal and forged metal by hand to meet the needs of his own farm and his nearby neighbors for metal items and metalworking services. Click for more.
My first stop was in Logatec, by the church of St. Cross.
Italian Watchtower on Rapallo Border (1920 - 1943 (officially till 1947))
Hiking and Geocaching along the Klavžarica Stream or Revenova grapa
Kanomlja Water Barriers - Water barrier on the Ovčjak or Klavžarica Stream were built in the period from 1812-1813 and restored in the beginning of this century. They were built to provide enormous quantities of wood for the second largest mercury mine on the globe, the IdrijaMercury Mine. The most suitable method of transporting timber to the valley was floating along natural water routes. The Kanomlja water barriers accumulated up to 16000 m^3 of water, which flowed out in 20 minutes, carrying up to 1500 m^3 of timber over a distance of 8 kilometers to Spodnja Idrija, where it was stopped.
Tree on top of my highest point, Vrh, and local dog, that was my companion for half of the track
GeoCaches found (all received a visit by trackable item "P'tit loup", TB6VX64, until it was dropped off):
- Cerkvica sv. Kriza na Taboru, GC2Q8WV
- Rapallo Border 1920-1947 - Italian Watchtower, GC6KEJM
- took a webcam photo at Zala, GCM0EG
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #1, GC5YCEJ
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #2, GC5YCF2
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #3, GC5YCFB
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #4, GC5YCFZ
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #5, GC5YCG5
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #6, GC5YCGE
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #7, GC5YCGT
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #8, GC5YCGZ
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #9, GC5YCH4
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #10, GC5YCHJ
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #11, GC5YCHW
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #12, GC5YCJ0
- Kanomeljske Klavže, GC5YCJV
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #13, GC5YCK3, where I dropped off trackable item "P'tit loup", TB6VX64
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #14, GC5YCK9
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #15, GC5YCKM
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #16, GC5YCNR
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #17, GC5YD93
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #18, GC5YD94
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #21, GC5YD9A
- Šturmajce, GC5YD9C
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #22, GC5YD9D
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #23, GC5YD9F
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #24, GC5YD9J
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #25, GC5YCMK
- Pr' Ivaniš, GC5YCMD
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #26, GC5YCM0
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #27, GC5YD9P
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #29, GC5YD9R
- [Trail] Nazaj h koreninam #30, GC5YD9T
Cloudy day called for some GeoCaching in Austria and I decided to pick some of them around Celovec, mostly the ones, that are accessible with a bit of hiking.
GeoCaches found:
- TB Hotel Karawanken/Loiblpass - Drive In, Letterbox Hybrid, GC75VJP, where I took trackable item "P'tit loup", TB6VX64 and I took it to all caches that I found today and discovered trackable items "Ella", TB62EF8, "NVTaps Tour Bug 3", TB6JJHX and "The traveling koala", TB7JZPK
- Alta Vista of Klagenfurt, GCR7FW
- Ohne Fleiß kein Preis, Mystery, GC4TX6D
- Pfarrkirche St. Florian in Stein, Multi, GC4ACX3
- R4 Wörthersee 92, Mystery, GC74WE5
- R4 Wörthersee 91, Mystery, GC6XTW1
- R 4 Wörthersee 90, Mystery, GC6ZVYK
- Reauz Spaziergang, GC4CZC9
- Petzi Bärs 40 iger, GC5721K
- R4 Wörthersee 83, Mystery, GC6ZVRG
- Olympic Games - Vancouver 2010 Bronze, GC23VEW
Today Aleš, Aleš, Vlado, Klemen, Primož and me decided to visit the museum of Union brewery. Their words from the web page "Take a walk through the history of the Pivovarna Union brewery, discover their modern production process and savour a glass of cold Union beer." convinced us to experience their journey.
Alpine Section AO Tržič organizes a closing party every year at the end of the season and so they did it today. I arrived in the evening and first we had a presentation about the expedition to Spantik, 7027 m, a mountain in Karakoram. Later on 2 girls, Barbi and Ana, finished with their basic training course and became trainees. The event finished with the last point in the agenda, miscellaneous.
After a long time a group of members of ŠKD Indijanci gathered and we decided to try some shooting at each other. We all had great fun playing paintball.
Players: Klemen, Vlado, Miha, Aleš, Peter, Rok, David and Tuši
