Slovenia: STKP: Part 3
STKP stands for Slovenian Mountain Bike Route and with Nada we decided to cycle part of it during this so called Potato holidays. The whole route consists of 111 checkpoints and is around 1800 kilometres long with 50000 ascend meters.
We woke up in the cold morning and a little past 6 a.m. we were already on our bikes, riding from Ribniška koča mountain hut, 1507 m (checkpoint 88), towards the highest peak of Pohorje, Črni vrh (Black peak), 1543 m, where the ground was still frozen. Our next stop was Grmovškov dom mountain hut, 1371 m (checkpoint 89), still closed in the morning so we just continued to Koča Planinc mountain hut, 1010 m (checkpoint 90), where the temperature started to increase. We just stamped our logbooks and continued descending back to the valley where we reached today's lowest point in Vuzenica. Since here was also a market we stopped for breakfast and rested for a while. Our road continued again uphill to Pernice (checkpoint 91) and to Dom na Košenjaku mountain hut, 1169 m (checkpoint 92). We were already tired, so we decided just to descent to Dravograd and then go back home. This time we use the bus to get us to Ljubljana.
Previous stages of STKP: Stage 1, Stage 2.
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| Ovčarjevo Forest reserve details below Črni vrh |
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| On the highest peak of Pohorje, Črni vrh, 1543 m |
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| Mountain biking on top of Pohorje |
Descending in a freezing morning
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| Kope ski resort |
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| STKP offers great roads all the time. Suitable also for trekking bikes. |
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| Old warehouse |
Out of the recommended track
Ski started to clear up and it was warmer and warmer
At our today's lowest point we visited Hydroelectric power plant Vuzenica on River Drava
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| Going up again |
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| Arl's Pine (Arlov bor) |
The local parish church in Pernice is dedicated to Saint Simon and Saint Jude and was first mentioned in documents dating to 1468. It was destroyed during Ottoman raids in 1494 and was rebuilt in 1510.
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| WW2 monument on our way |
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| Nice day in Koroška (Carinthia) |
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| After 3 days of cycling we spotted the first official marking |
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| Goriški Vrh in the hills north of Dravograd, right on the border with Austria. |
Different cornering technique
Final descent past Saint Leonard (Sveti Lenart) Church in Vič, over river Drava twice to a pizza.
STKP: From checkpoint 88 to checkpoint 92 and down to Dravograd - Garmin Connect
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| STKP logo - visit http://pzs.si/ktk/wpstkp/en/ for details |
GeoCaches found (all received a visit by trackable item "Der blaue Käfer"", TB6YGBZ, until it was dropped off):
- Kope SKI cache, GC2PQGE
- DEM HE Vuzenica, GC38QDF
- PERNICE, NAPEČNIKOVA BREZA, GC4TP3C
- PERNICE. ARLOV BOR, GC4TNHG, where I dropped off trackable item "Der blaue Käfer"", TB6YGBZ
- PERNICE, CERKEV SV. SIMONA, GC4TP42
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