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Amazing, have fun!!!

Glad you like them!

I love to hear that!! Happy you like my videos ;-) the trail is amazing!

Hey, no via ferrata kit needed then. There’s short sections of steel cables but not true via ferrata. Be prepared for exposure and bring a helmet! Very beautiful section!!

@@helena_hikes Thanks for the quick response where did you sleep along this part? It's the first time for me planning a hiking trip alone and I find it difficult to plan my days. I always had a buddy planning my trips trough the pyrenees.

@@maxgrymonprez77 in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-19zuAiXGEhY.htmlsi=4Guks7puqLyI95Qj In the description are my exact stages and in which huts I stayed. Maybe that helps!

Unfortunately, the most beautiful places are mostly the most crowded or if they’re not crowded, they’re hard to access (mountaineering, exposure, etc). In Austria I really like everything in Hohe Tauern national park, it’s super beautiful. I did the first 4 days of the Tauern high route (Höhenweg) last year and it was one of the most beautiful hikes in Austria. If you want more information, just ask :-) but this hike is also a bit more technical, so not as many people do it. I also really like the Dachstein area (there’s a loop hike around the main massive), not crowded but definitely some people in a few places. I honestly also didn’t meet many people in the kamnik savinja alps in Slovenia. Both times I was there it was not crowded. I think in general July is better than august!

Stausee Margaritze is very beautiful but also one of the main tourist spots, so I’d personally avoid everything in direct vicinity of Großglockner

Hi, you can! If you want to avoid via ferrata you should definitely skip the Kamnik savinja section or skip Koroska rinka, skuta and grintovec meaning you would hike straight to ceska koča after kranjska koča. That would still include a very steep and exposed ascent to korošici. This climb is not classified as via ferrata but it is very steep and there are some steel cables. If you want to see what it looks like, it’s the first climb (after minute 2:00 in chapter 2 of my SMT series). If you want to avoid that completely I’d recommend skipping ahead from solcava to Zgornje jezersko. Later along the trail Jalovec is a very steep climb that could be seen as a via ferrata, you can skip the peak here. Same with prisojnik. That way you can still hike and see the Slovenian alps but skip the hardest parts. I would recommend getting a guide book, it’s written where you encounter via ferratas so you can plan accordingly. Hope that helps!

Water sources are rare after the first section (pohorje) due to the karst limestone mountains there’s very little surface water. I always bought it or filtered from the huts.

You can rent climbing gear at Triglav national park, I think in Mojstrana or maybe even at the hut kredarica. I wouldn’t recommend to do the whole trail without it but if you’re very experienced in the mountains of course it’s up to you! There’s some serious exposure.

@helena_hikes I did get a kit. Please everyone leave your egos at home don't do triglav without kit. It's only 100-200 euro from decathlon life is more worth then that. Thanks for convincing me!!!

@@tifacoba glad you got it :-) the first time I hiked someone died on Triglav. Many deaths in the mountains are preventable by taking care of

Hey! I used Komoot and mapy.cz for navigating. There is a website for the trail itself but unfortunately no app! You can download the gpx track and just upload into any app you like. :-)