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My journey started on the 9th of April. After visiting Ljubljana i took the train to Postojna and then the bus zu Razdrto. A small village with a very strange name, when you have no idea how to pronounce it. The first mountain was Nanos (Picture)...
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...and i really not expected to see snow on my first day. It was not really cold but when you hike on snow you are much slower because you dont want to slip. I built up my tent up a little bit further down in the forest. This night was really creepy...
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...because every raindrop sounded like an approaching animal. My rechargeable headlamp doesnt work. My first equipment fail. The next day i walked past the Predjama Castle (Picture)...
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...over drought hills (Picture) until it was getting dark and i had to camp again. I cooked Bulgur with my wood burning stove but i had to eat it half raw. The next bad investment. This night i heard a lot of barking dogs down the valley. Because of...
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...the distance they sounded like enormous monsters. Although the stages were not that difficult I felt exhausted after only a few days. That's why I allowed myself a hostel the third night. I had to hitchhike a few km there and back again. The next...
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...day i made a great experience. It was pouring like a waterfall and a sweet Slowenian family invited me for dinner. They showed me their band (check out "The Frodo and the Suzukies") and i showed them mine. I slept in their music room. The first...
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...final boss awaited me a few days later. Sneznik (Picture), in englisch Snow Mountain. This name says it all. Without snow spikes this stage was probably the most dangerous in the whole trail. But i survived somehow and i dragged myself after 8 days...
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...over the Croation border. On 18th of April the buds of the leaves exploded. Spring finally arrived and i prayed for less snow on the mountains. the roads in Slovenia and Croatia were often badly marked, overgrown and full of fallen trees. Without...
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...a GPS device it would have been impossible. On this magical day, I found an accommodation at the entrance to the "Risnjak" National Park (Picture). Or better: It found me. The host, Josip, asked me when i passed and you really cant reject when you...
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...hiked for more than 6 hours. He built up his own little paradise and he was the first person i met who knowed the "Via Dinarica" trail. He told me a lot of interesting things and i could use his washing machine. During the dinner we listened to...
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...Wagner. Because of such moments its worthwhile to continue walking. As you can see on the picture I did not give up the stove yet. But even in the second try it was so hard to keep the water boiling that i decided to left it behind. Thenceforth...
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...I just ate cold dishes. The freed place i could use for another bottle of water which was very usefull because I did not have always sources on the way. Risnjak Mountain (picture) was like expected also covered with snow. I really can not recommend...
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...to walk on mountains in April which are higher than 1200 meters. Especially not without equipment. The mountain hut near the summit was still closed but at least i met three locals. So I felt a little bit less insane to be in this inhospitable...
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...environment.
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