Slemenova Špica

Not content with tackling the Vršič Pass yesterday, today we went back for seconds, this time from Kranjska Gora, 24 hairpin bends up and the same back down. We parked at the top and walked to the summit of Slemenova Špica, altitude 1911m (6270ft), which involved a climb of 1600ft for us and a walk of 9km (5.5 miles). Just when we thought we'd seen every spectacular view available, this walk offered us even more. Truly breathtaking. 

Lots of amazing flowers on the way including alpine and least snowbells, glacier crowfoot, shrubby milkwort plus the usual dwarf alpenrose, mountain avens and twoflower violet. Plenty of birds including alpine choughs and once again a high altitude lesser whitethroat singing at 1850m! A short walk this afternoon and I managed to find Dinaric hawksbeard, a Slovenian speciality and a rarity even here.

We had our lunch on the summit of Slemenova Špica. There's not much room up here and there were about six other people in close proximity. Two alpine choughs landed about 2m away and I was hoping to get a few decent photos, but unfortunately a woman who was right behind me began literally screaming at a young child who was with her, really loud and for about five minutes. The birds stuck it out admirably for about a minute but eventually the madness of this person made them decide that they weren't going to hang around. Even on the tops of mountains you can't escape them....

Alpine forget-me-not.

Least snowbells.

Hybrid buttercup.

Twoflower violet 

Glacier crowfoot.

Dwarf alpenrose.

Nine-leaved hemp.

Naked-stemmed Globularia

Alpine snowbells

Mountain Avens

Shrubby milkwort.

Duke of Burgundy.

Dyer's greenweed 

Dinaric hawksbeard.