Vrata Valley and the infamous Mt. Triglav's north face.
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Below Vršič Pass.
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Below Vršič Pass.
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Sheep below Vršič Pass.
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Sheep below Vršič Pass.
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Larches below Vršič Pass were still green.
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Below Vršič Pass.
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In the afternoon we drove to the Mangart Pass. On the way there is a beautiful beech forest.
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Views from the Mangart pass road.
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Views from the Mangart pass towards Italy.
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Luka joined us for a few hours.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass and Mt. Mangart.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mangart pass.
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Mt. Mangart.
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Last sun rays from Mangart pass.
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Last sun rays from Mangart pass.
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Views from the Mangart pass towards Italy.
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Mt. Mangart just after sunset.
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Mt Mangart before moonrise.
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Silhouettes at Mangart pass.
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Star trails at Mangart pass in moonlight.
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The trail was a bit slippery from the rain in the past days.
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The trail in the woods.
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Is that a snake trail?
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There were a few steep sections of the trail with steel ropes.
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Another steep section of the trail.
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The trail back to our starting point led through some more larch trees.
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Looking back on the trail we'd just hiked ...
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The trails ascends through a fir forest.
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The walk along the trail is pleasant, but it was hot and humid and windless that day.
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After reaching the trail to the top of Mt. Kriz the view of the Pogacnik hut opened up.
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At the end of the trail there are a couple of caves that are accessible to public.
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Our hut down below and the nasty scree trail that we had already covered.
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The trail goes below the summit and offers great views of Mt. Prisojnik.
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Thus far we had only seen one other hiker - at the Planja saddle. It's great to have the trail all to yourself. :)
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The trail to Vrsic on the southern flanks of Prisojnik. Mt. Bavski Grintavec and Jalovec in the background.
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Ski trails in the snow.
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The views from the trail towards the south revealed the Kamnik Alps in the distance and smog in the valleys.
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The trail to the Vratca pass led up the right side of the valley and was lined with flowers! What a sight!
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The trail from Kofce gora to the next peak, Kladivo.
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A bench and a trail.
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I had to descend to a small saddle in the crest from where a trail forked off to the valley.
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On this trail there was some kind of grass that was blooming and the air was filled with pollen. As we both have allergies, we started to sneeze and snivel like crazy.
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Ski trails.
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Here I took the trail leading down to the valley.
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From the top of Mali Bogatin we could see the trail that we had taken early in the morning.
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One of the pleasanter sections of the trail back to Komna.
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An airplane light trail.
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The trail from Planina Javorniki was well-trodden.
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From here on there was no defined trail and I had to trudge through the heavy snow.
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Larches along the trail.
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This was the good part of the trail. ;)
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Ski trails.
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Ski tourers' trails.
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At the beginning of the trail to the top of the hill, there were some interesting yellow thorny plants.
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The trail soon disappeared and we scrambled up across a rocky terrain.
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We could see the trail up Planjava that we were going to take later.
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The trail between Ojstrica and Planjava took quite some time.
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There is an unmarked trail to another peak, but we were content with the official one.
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The trail along the edge.
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A trail.
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They didn't follow a marked trail, obviously. ;)
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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Mt. Slivnica and hoarfrost
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The trail follows the ridge.
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The last section of the trail to Kalški greben.
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The trail led us through some more dwarf pine.
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There were too many people on this trail. Everybody prepared for the climbing part - we put away hiking poles and put on helmets.
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The whole ascend consists of steep trails and there is a steel rope to help climbers.
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A helmet has become a necessary part of equipment on the exposed trails.
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The views from the climbing trail were spectacular all the time.
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We were never alone - even though this is the most difficult marked trail, it's still very popular with many hikers.
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The trails evens out for a while ...
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There wasn't just one trail, there were hundreds.
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There were plants with red leaves growing next to the trail.
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"Marked climbing trail"
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The trail to Luknja col that we had climbed early in the morning.
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One of the few sections of the trail that didn't involve climbing.
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Emerging from the woods we saw this lonely trail across the plain.
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Soon the clouds rolled in and the fun of shooting star trails was over.
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From the steep trail the view back was wonderful. The meadows were bathing in the late afternoon sun.
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Ski trails go in but not out of the sinkhole. Or do they? :)
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The beginning of a number of mountains trails. The pole marks the boundary of the Triglav National Park.
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On the trail to the bunker.
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A typical sign for hiking trails.
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The last stretch of the steep trail.
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Ski trails.
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It was almost dark by the time I got down to the meadows and before the trail plunged into the forest.
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The trail was snowy in parts, but luckily our shoes remained dry.
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Trail.
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Many trails.
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The trail leads through a thick pine forest the last ten minutes of the hike.
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Ski trails.
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A trail through the pines and over the scree.
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The trail to the top of Brana is marked as "demanding". Well, it does involve some quite steep sections, but it's not too bad as long as you're not afraid of heights.
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As the trail climbed up Brana's north face, I enjoyed the view over the vast saddle and Mount Planjava.
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This is a blaze, a sign used in the mountains to mark trails.
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It was difficult to descend quickly as the trail was covered in leaves and I couldn't see what was beneath.
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