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Slovenia: Hiking In TNP, GeoCaching

After the night in Dom pri Krnskih jezerih mountain hut, 1385 m, we left early and started walking towards Krn, 2244 m. We passed by glacial Lake Krn, a a habitat for 40 plant species – mostly algae – and 24 species of lower animals, predominantly small crayfish. Due to the fog and snow, the track wasn't visible anymore so we improvised a little, all the way to the saddle called Prag. We wanted to continue, but our "path" was too icy and without crampons and ice-axes it would be too risky, so we returned back to the lodge. After the warm up tea we returned back to the valley, to Dom v Lepeni mountain hut, 700 m.

Walking on Lake Krn

Up, towards our highest point

Angels on Lake Krn, on our way back

2nd day of hiking in TNP

In the valley we started driving towards Podljubelj, but nit directly, since we stopped on many nice places near Soča river, where we found some GeoCaches.

 

Big Troughs of the Soča river, 750-metre long and 10-to-12-metre-deep, where the quantity of water may vary by as much as 10 meters and one of many cemeteries along the Soča front, where a lot of people died during WW1.

Once you're wet, you can cross the river without hesitating

GeoCaches found:
- Big Troughs of the Soča, Earth cache, GC1TR14
- Big Troughs of the Soča - Bonus, GC1CW1Q
- SH3 - Soča Highlights No.3 - (Rest in) Peace, GC2N2KQ
- Bridge over Emerald Water, GC1D7NJ
- Trenta Panoramic View, GC2F1G3
All caches received a visit by trackable item "Signal Tag - Motorbike", TB3TCAA. I left the trackable item in the last cache.