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Slovenia: Morning hike over Rašica to work

Our sport and cultural society ŠKD Indijanci went on a 16th hike. Although it was a morning hike, we don't count it as a weekly morning hike, because it was more or less a bonus one. We decided to explore more hills in the vicinity of our work, so we started hiking from Povodje to Mali vrh, 483 m, and Veliki vrh, 568 m. Later on we conquered the highest peak, Rašica, 641 m, and later on 2 smaller ones, Privolje, 470 m, and Visoki hrib, 446 m.

Start at 5 a.m.

Somewhere near Veliki vrh

Aleš, Nada, Vlado, Rok and Tuši at our highest point on top of 17 m high tower.

Peak Privolje

 

WW2 monument to Cene Štupar, well known partisan in this area

 

Aleš and Nada were the stars of the morning

Joke of the morning: "The pessimist says, ‘It can’t get any worse!’ And the optimist replies, ‘Oh yes it can!’"

ŠKD Indijanci - Hike #16

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Slovenia: Weekly Hike: Tošč

Our sport and cultural society ŠKD Indijanci went on a twelfth morning hike (15th overall). Our destination was Tošč, 1021 m. Tošč became the highest peak among peaks above Polhov Gradec just a few decades ago, when Yugoslav army decreased the height of Pasja ravan for 9 m, so they could use it as a rocket base and to build bunkers.

After 15 minutes of walking the information table said one more hour and a half

 

Almost at our destination, still dark

 

At the top, where we signed in. A sign on the top says: "Juhu peak and a pleasant tiredness. I realize that the worst tiredness is the idleness."

Atendees: Vlado, Rok, Tuši and Nada

ŠKD Indijanci - Hike #15

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Slovenia: Hike to Triangel

My sister's and my neighbour's kids were attending winter camp on Zelenica and we decided to visit them and give them an escort back to the valley.

Ascend towards Koča Vrtača mountain hut, 1288 m

Above the fog on abandoned ski resort with mountains Košutica and Veliki vrh behind

Half way up

View to the west, where you can see the highest Slovenian mountain Triglav, 2864 m,  and highest peak of the Karawanks, Stol, 2236 m

Tuši and Kralj at the top of Triangel, 1704 m.

Kids drying their clothes

 

Some parents picked up their kids and we all went back to the valley together 

Back in to the fog

Sunday hike to Triangel with Aleš, Andreja and Borut

Our ski jumpers were brilliant again. They won a triple victory in Sapporo, Japan. Congratulations guys, we are proud of you. Click for report called Slovenia sweeps the podium in Sapporo.

1. J. DAMJAN     SLO 138,0/134,0 255,0
2. P. PREVC      SLO 124,0/137,5 254,4
3. R. KRANJEC    SLO 126,0/137,0 253,3

Peter Prevc, Jernej Damjan and Robert Kranjec

In the evening I watched first two movies of the Twilight Saga, Twilight, 2008, and New Moon, 2009.

 

The Twilight Saga is a series of five romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer.

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Slovenia: Hike to Korošica

My neighbour was home alone, so we decided to go out, take a hike and drink a beer.

Start of the hike

View to Begunjščica, 2060 m

 

We were lucky, that someone already took this path 

 

But not for long. That somebody continued the wrong way, but we didn't give up.

Piece of cake

 

Before - After

Finally at our destination, Planina Korošica with Veliki vrh, 2088 m

Planina Korošica, 1554 m

View to the West part of the Karawanks

Hiking to Korošica with my neighbour Borut

When we arrived back to our car, we decided to have a beer in Gostišče Koren, to locals known as karavla (ex small frontier military facility). Already a perfect day became even better after a beer and two great wins achieved by our winter sportsmen Peter Prevc and Tina Maze.

Cortina d’Ampezzo  - Downhill - Report
1. Tina Maze (SLO) 1:37.79
2. Marianne Kaufmann-Abderhalden (SUI) 1:38.06
3. Tina Weirather (LIE) 1:38.17

Tina in action

Sapporo - Ski Jumping World Cup - Large Hill Individual - Report
 1. P. PREVC      SLO 137,0/134,5 294,6
 2. J. DAMJAN     SLO 135,5/129,0 277,0
 3. N. KASAI      JAP 132,5/129,0 272,1
 4. R. KRANJEC    SLO 128,0/132,5 266,9
 5. D. ITO        JAP 127,5/127,5 261,2
 6. A. KOFLER     AUT 132,0/122,0 260,5
 7. N. DEŽMAN     SLO 137,0/120,5 255,6
 8. J. MATURA     CZE 127,5/125,5 254,3
    M. NEUMAYER   GER 130,0/126,5 254,3
    M. EISENBICH. GER 134,0/127,0 254,3
11. R. LAMY CHAP. FRA 134,5/122,0 253,6
12. T. NAGLIČ     SLO 132,0/121,5 252,1
...                                    
18. R. HRGOTA     SLO 132,5/123,0 247,9
29. J. TEPEŠ      SLO 121,5/114,5 217,5

Peter's 2nd victory in World Cup.

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Slovenia: Burek (Börek) time

After work I joined Nada and we started baking burek, each one one type. Her choice was potato burek, mine was with green lentils.

 

Preparing the ingridients 

 

  

Making of...

 

Baked

 

Consuming