The Gay Hike

One of things I knew I want/have to do while being in Slovenia is to go hiking. Sebastian and Florian offered be the opportunitu to come and join them for a day trip hike to Triglav National park near lake Bohinj. Awesome! I was alprepared, I had my shoes, cloths, food and wather. Florian reminded me that we can go swimming in mountain lake so I broght my togs with me aswell. I was ready! Sebastian was resposible of the car and Florian of the hiking. At the beginning of our jorney I asked Florian if we had a map or something and what kind of route we were gonna hike. "I don't know and no we don't have a map" Well alright then, not the most promising start but never mind. Lets hope that the track is well marked. We got to our starting place where many others had same thought about Saturday hike. Some people gave us long looks and I don't blame them, not all of us fit in.

I wasn't prepred for such a great weather! I was all prepared for cold wind, rain and chill tempatre, you know typical weather for end of October. Another +18c and no clouds at all. Not the best weather to wear black-black-long-sleeve-wollen-shirt. It was blody hot! Especially when you are hiking steap as clime. It was really shocked with the lack of condition I was. I really need to start doing more sports again. But oh man I loved my hiking boots, the best thing ever.
The first part of our hike was indeed crazy. Really steap rock steps up. Almost like the ones Sam, Frodo and Golum climed in the third LOTR-movie. At least it felt like it. I got so hot that my face turned all tomato/chili red. Beutiful... Nevertheless it was all worth it, the view was great.



After our freack clime up we got to the first lake. It was only 12.30 so we decided we should keep going. unfortunately we did one wrong turn and ended up in another route: the longest detour ever!
We got to the next lake 2h later and faced a propblem. We had only 3h day light left. It toke us 4 hour to clime up where we were so there was no chance we were gonna turn around and go same way back. Not only some of us didn't have proper shoes and stuff but we didn't have any flashlight. It would have been total suecide to even think about trying to hike down the steep part in darkness. One wrong step and that would it. No freaking way. Lucky for us we ran in to some Austrian hikers who actually had a map. They should us that there was a open hut where we could stay over night 3h hike away so we would get there before dark. The only problem was that we had rented the car and we were supposed to return the same night or we would have to pay a fine and rent of the next day aswell. There was no time to think about that time and our own option was just keep hiking forward and think about our problems later.

Ou yea we went for a swim and it was great! So frecking cold but so awesome.

The thought about staying over night on the mountains was fine for me. The only thing I was missing was my tooth brush which would suck on the morning. The hut was huge! I thought it was a small cottage or something but it was a proper house! There was on restaurant/bar, place to sleep and shop where you can buy food and stuff. On a mountain! Impressive. We got to the hut around 6pm so we had about 30min daylight left. We put our jorney for vote: stay in the hut for the night or suicidal hike down the mountain in pitch black. And ofcourse we decided to hike down. We were unbelievably lucky again and ran in to two Slovenian middle-age ladies who were going down aswell. The best part was that they had flashlights. One went to the front and the other in the middle. It was crazy and scary by the time it got really dark. You couldn't see anything. I'm not sure I have told you before but there are a lot of bears in Slovenian forest and in fact Slovenia is the biggest bear exporter in Europe. Isn't that cool! Ofcourse with our luck we didn't ran into any bears but we could have. Dasha and Nika were really unhappy with our idea to hike down in darkness. Every singelyear people die on Slovenian mountains because they are trually stupid hiking without proper equipments(check), a map(check) or not to be aware of the time(check). Perfect suicidal combonition. Againts all the odds I'm here writing my blog in my bed, alive.

Back to actual hike, now starts my hippie part so forgive me Aino, you might want to skip this. The feeling you had when you were up there was just amazing. Just being close to the nature. You couldn't hear anything but your own foot steps. No cars, music or other people. You see the landscapes that you see only on posters. It was pretty breathtaking and you can't really capture on the photos. And the fact that you climed up to mountain up 1700m is for my opinion really cool. For me atleast. I'm no proficional hiker obviously so every hike is achievement itself and I'm really proud of myself. I really need keep this hobby up go other places and countries to do this. Too bad that the hiking season is pretty much over now. At least for me, I don't have equipments or courage to hike in the winter time.

Another great trip with awesome people. One of the high lights of my time in Slovenia.

Ps. If some of you wondered whats up with the title, it was just an inside joke from a youtube clip. Nothing really to do with actual hike other than we did realize that both Sebastian and Florian are gay.;)