Dovska baba (1890m above sea level) – well, difficult to translate, old ugly lady from Dovje. Anyway, i’m not sure about the name, but its a great hill to ascent, no matter the season. I went up there twice in the past two months. The photos are from the first ascent, in february, when the snow level was really bad – actually, only on the top – i enjoyed snowboarding down to about 1100m above sea level. Its one of those technically not difficult ascents (and almost no danger of avalanches) with nice and long downhill.
A few weeks later and after a hefty to the hill, and the conditions were just perfect – lots of snow, and i was able to snowboard down to the valley, to my house at 700m above sea level. As my start and finish points were at my house, it took me 4 hours 45 minutes to walk up and snowboard down… Oh yes, did i mention that there was fresh snowfall?
More photos…
http://matty.breg.si/photo/slovenia/dovskababa2/index.htm
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Well… what an unfortunate day. There were actually two events where i wanted to be on 8th of February… One is wedding (report will follow) the other is an international ice climbing competition in Mojstrana. I managed to visit guys just for a few minutes, before departing to Ljubljana, but i didn’t manage to take any photos. But still, i have some left from last year.
More photos…
http://matty.breg.si/photo/sport/icemojstrana2004/index.htm
Fortunately, Rado was there and he took some great ones…
http://www.ice-climbing.net/2005/mojstrana/
Who won on the end? Difficulty was won by ukranian Evgeniy Krivošejcev and speed by swiss Simon Wandeler. Oh yes, almost forgot: the venue – Mlacca – Mojstrana – Slovenia … no english version for now…
http://www.lednoplezanje.com/
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I went snowboarding to Italy, to a place called Monte Lusari (Visarje). Excellent skiing resort, close to my home, just over the border. It mainly only one black/red run, with 1000m of height difference. Anyway, thats not where i shot telemark skiing. Actually, on a way back i stopped in
Kranjska gora (Men’s Skiing World Cup venue) where the Eurocup in telemark was in full flow. I caught only the last 10 telemarkers… And its very interesting sport, as it combines skiing on steep slopes and cross country running…
More photos…
http://matty.breg.si/photo/sport/telemark/index.htm
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On thursday i found out, that during a weekend there is a Sleddog competition quite near my home. Great… if only i hadn’t been ill. Nevermind, let’s go. Of course, i came again quite late (well, this is my trademark), so i caught only last 10 competitors…
But still you can admire those dogs, how fast they are running. Are they enjoying it? Well… thats another question. I guess they do – or at least some do. Why would a stray dog then run after a sled?
More photos…
http://matty.breg.si/photo/sport/sleddog/index.htm
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One week after, i’m again back in the mountains – again i went to Vrsic. Due to bad snow conditions i decided to go on a short walk with Iztok and his two lovely dogs. Well, there was snow, just the “right” slopes were left uncovered. Anyway, it was a nice, not too long walk (from Vrsic you have to walk first a little bit up, and than it flattens out), and dogs were a blast.
Didn’t take too many photos, here are just some…
http://matty.breg.si/photo/slovenia/sleme/index.htm
Until next time… hopefully i’ll be already skiing…
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