Trekking in Slovenia - the Slovene High Level Route - Europe

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14 May 2009

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9781852845667

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185284566X

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17.2 x 11.6 x 1.9cm

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256

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14 May 2009

Trekking in Slovenia

The Slovene High Level Route by Justi Carey, Roy Clark

The first English-language guidebook to trekking the Slovene High Level Route across Slovenia. From Maribor to Ankaran the route covers 500km through the forested plateau of Pohorje, the Julian and Kamnik-Savinja Alps, the alpine pastures of the Karavanke, and the limestone karst country. A series of 3 to 6 day treks of all levels of difficulty. More...

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Activities

walking, backpacking, trekking, via ferrata

Seasons

routes clear of snow and weather stable from mid-June to the end of September; high mountain huts Read More... only open from July to September; many facilities closed from October to May and snow possible

Centres

stage starts and finishes: Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Solcava, Zgornje Jezersko, Tržic, Mojstrana, Read More... Vršic, Trenta, Petrovo brdo, Idrija, Col, Matavun, Ankaran

Difficulty

series of 3 to 6 day treks of all levels of difficulty; each day graded from 1 (mostly on tracks Read More... or lanes, not steep or technical) to 3 (long and strenuous, often with fixed protection, self-belaying equipment and helmet recommended)

Must See

highest peak Triglav (2864m); vast forested plateau of Pohorje; sheer limestone peaks of the Read More... Julian and Kamnik-Savinja Alps; traditional alpine pastures and flower-strewn ridges of the Karavanke; forested hills and olive groves of the limestone karst country

To mountain walkers, Slovenia is best known for the Julian Alps, but it has a lot more than that to offer, and the Slovene High-Level Route crosses some of the most varied and interesting landscapes to be found anywhere in Europe.

From Maribor, close by the Austrian border in the north-east, to Ankaran on the Adriatic coast in the south-west, the route covers 500km of outstanding mountain and upland walking: the vast forested plateau of Pohorje, the sheer limestone peaks of the Julian and Kamnik-Savinja Alps with their via ferrata protected routes, the traditional alpine pastures and flower-strewn ridges of the Karavanke, and the forested hills and olive groves of the limestone karst country that stretch towards the coast.

Available for the first time to English-speaking walkers, the route is described in a series of 3-6 day treks of all levels of difficulty, which can be completed as single sections or linked in a number of ways for longer holidays.