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Mt Velebit - trips

Category: Mt Velebit and Lika Region
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Destination: Mt. lodge Zavižan (1594 m)

Difficulty: difficult, due to winter conditions.

Altitude difference:  650 m

Starting and ending point: Mt Hut Oltari (on the road Sv. Juraj - Krasno - Otočac)

Tagline:

  • Three musketeers (Zoran, Saša and Dražen) on three meters of snow at Zavižan. It was one of the easiest winter ascents to Zavižan thanks to very hard snow, passable without snowshoes and crampons. Amazing weather and  a lot of snow give us a lot of motives for photographing. One curiosity..  one of the hiking trips when we saw the dolphins (of course, in the sea close to Sv. Juraj),

 Route:

  • Oltari (950 m) - Siča (1250 m) - Mt. Lodge Zavižan (1594 m) :  3, 5 (4,5) h
  • Mt. Lodge Zavižan  - Velika Kosa - Mt. Lodge Zavižan : 1 h
  • Mt. Lodge Zavižan - Siča - Babić Dolac - Oltari

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Notes from the trip:

Transport: individually, by car

 Acommodation:

Maps:

  • Nacionalni park Sjeverni Velebit, Map No 16a, M 1:30.000, SMAND d.o.o., Varaždin, 2005.
  • Sjeverni Velebit, Map No 16, M 1:30 000, SMAND d.o.o., Varaždin 1995.
  • Topographic map TK25 Rab-2-4 (418-2-4), M 1:25000, Državna geodetska uprava, Zagreb
  • The view of theGPS tracks from the  trip in GoogleMaps

 Guided by: Dražen

Organizers: Saša and Dražen

Equipment:

  • Mandatory

    • appropriate winter clothes for wind, snow and rain.

    • hiking boots for winter condition

    • gaiter

    • hiking poles

    • UIAA member identity card

  • highly recommended, it can be mandatory depending on weather condition:

    • snowshoes

    • crampons

    • iceaxe

  • optionally:

    • backcountry skis

Notes from previous trips:

  • Winter ascent to Zavižan, Dec 15-16, 2012
  • North Velebit - Winter ascent to Zavižan, Jan 6-8,  2012
  • North Velebit - Winter Ascent to Zavižan, 10-12th December 2010
  • North Velebit - Winter Ascent to Zavižan, 11-13th December 2009
  • North Velebit - Winter Ascent to Zavižan (1594 m), 29-30th November 2008
  • North Velebit - winter Ascent to Zavižan, 1-2nd December 2007

Notes:

  •  Zavižan is usually the coldest, the windiest and the snowiest place in Croatia! This demands the experience, appropriate equipment and good personal physical preparation. Etc, at the trip 27/28th Feb 2010. there were 156 cm of snow and temperature of +7 C, but at the trip before (11th Dec 2009) there were half meter of snow, -9 C and the wind (bora) about 60 km/h
  • The information about current weather conditions can be found here, more information can be found here, and long-term forecast is here.