Planika

The original idea was to climb Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia (2864 m) with my co-workers. But we could not get accommodation in one of the mountain huts below the summit as on this particular weekend every bed was sold out weeks ago. So a two day trip was out of the question. While it is possible to do the Triglav climb in one day, we would have had to to start out much earlier than we did and go much faster. We made it as far as the Planika mountain hut at 2401 m elevation. There we decided to return and go back to be safely back at our car before dark and made plans to make another attempt next year.

It was a perfect September day, sunny and not too hot. The views were spectacular as always.

We were lucky to see an Edelweiss flower, a protected alpine flower.

And we also saw a groundhog, also a rare sighting so I was excited that I caught one on camera.