skiing in the wilds of montenegro - solar street lamp

It's 15 degrees Celsius now, and it's sunny when the three of us walked out of Croatia's split International Airport carrying our ski bags.
"Do you want to ski off the Adriatic coast?
Asked our confused car rental agent.
She didn't understand why we went skiing all the way here.
But we are heading to one of the last real wilderness left on the continent: Montenegro.
Despite the abundance of skiing opportunities, this is still relatively unknown-the small country on the Balkans is covered in mountainous areas.
This is the perfect destination for three snowboarders looking for fresh adventures.
Flights to Dubrovnik or Montenegro capital Podgorica will be faster, but flights to Split are half the price and the roads on the map look good! A large all-wheel-
Waiting for us by car;
We threw our equipment inside and headed south.
We will be heading to zaljuk town in the heart of durmido National Park, a five-minute drive from durmido ski resort-but getting there is a huge journey.
When we passed the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia-a UNESCO World Heritage site-it was already dark outside and there was still a long way to go, estimated to be three hours.
Finally, the first signpost of Zabljak in Kotor, a historic seaside town, cheered us.
There is no street light to illuminate the road to the endless dark forest-we begin to understand where the name Montenegro comes from (
Direct translation: Montenegro).
In the end, we arrived at Zabljak at 1.
At 30 in the morning, with the help of two local police officers, we found the B & B, Andjelich, hidden behind the huge snow wall.
"It was a bad winter," the owner Zarko told us after we fell down the stairs.
"We have only one. 5m of snow!
However, the walkway to the entrance to B & B is carved out with snow piled up 2 metres above our heads-you will surely love the "meters" of these Montenegro ".
It was a short night.
Photographer Tony kicked us out of bed early, eager to go up the mountain, and we slowly bumped on the road stained by ice and snow.
Our research tells us that the Durmitor ski area consists of two cable cars to reach the perfect steep and rocky free terrain, which in fact looks very appealing.
However, the often simple process of purchasing an elevator pass becomes a real challenge because the person in the old wooden house does not understand English, German, French or Japanese (
There is no denying that the last one is a long shot).
Finally, due to some crazy gestures, we received one of the three handwritten-
Elevator pass for the day, 13 euros each.
Here we are, dumidor!
The first elevator took us to Zhongshan district-it was not working.
Some of our skiers have speculated that it might be broken, while others have argued that it is too much work for the resort to free the elevator station from all the snow.
It fits us well though-thanks to our touring skin, we have a bunch of amazing faces as our own private playground.
About an hour later, our first group of people sped down the Black Mountains, looking out at the plateau below, beautiful and breathtaking.
We tear into a wide bowl and keep our speed to cross the next ridge and then a skin until the 2455 m peak of Sljeme.
Zarko told us it would be three.
An hour of hiking but the Black Hills are laid back
We can do it easily.
We can see the rugged panoramic view from the top;
Bobotov Kuk, 2523 above sea level, is the highest point in the ski area, and the ARATS mountains on the horizon to the east.
We have a vertical distance of 1000 from the top of the mountain.
Blue Sky, beautiful scenery, fresh powder every turn-unparalleled feeling.
Over the next few days, we handled two other routes, and the first one took three hours because we stopped on the road and asked Tony to capture the dramatic scene with a camera, and the second one less than an hour.
On the back of Savin Valley Mountain (2313m)
We can go down the long, perfect powder line.
The top is a wide face with plenty of space to complete the big turn before shrinking and returning to the resort base.
We work on the ridge line, and finally the brilliant Snow Shadow Valley around the bank, scattered with the features of playful freedom.
With more than 48 peaks to explore, we can easily spend a month in Durmitor.
But now is the time for us to move on to the next mountain range on our list, komovic.
The forecast looks bad.
Obviously we had another day of Bluebirds before the bad weather arrived, so early in the morning we left Zarko's sanctuary for the Southeast.
The series has three outstanding peaks: Kom Kucki, Ljevorijecki, and Vasojevicki, a bear that has a bad mold.
We 've heard that the komovic mountains have exciting lines and free terrain with clean tourist routes-that's exactly what we want.
We have to negotiate a high
There are mountain passes along the way, so we stopped in Kolasin town of Tara valley to check the route.
"Yes, the tressevik pass is open," staff at Kolasin tourism bureau told us . ".
An hour later, we learned that, in Montenegro, "opening up" only refers to the fact that the obstacle has not declined.
The 2-meter-thick snow covering the road has put us in trouble twice, resulting in more than two hours of shoveling-we are still a few miles from the target.
Finally, when we faced the insurmountable snow wall for the third time, we decided to reduce our losses, and start a shorter ski tour from where our car got stuck in the bielacica mountains.
We put on our skins and set out, making it easy to travel along the Alpine Highway before the bank leaves into the rolling hills.
The gentle terrain and the open grass trees did not provide the amazing elements of the comovitch mountains, but we managed to get some rewards, which is still a great pleasure.
We ended the day with pasta, cooked on a camping stove, drank beer in front of the car, marveled at what a wonderful place we stumbled upon, before returning to the road, we have cleared it up.
We went back to Kolasin that evening and stayed in a B & B and tasted local homemade mozzarella cheese
Great cheese type and enjoy-value (
If not good quality)€3 pizzas.
The next day the weather was really close so we buried our Komovi plan and instead drove to Kolasin 1450, the most modern ski resort in Montenegro, where there were six elevators.
This is certainly different from Durmitor, which has a well.
There are many facilities in the hotel, including sporting goods shops and restaurants.
The 20 euro lift pass per day is also a bit more expensive.
It started snowing outside, which gave us breakfast time for 2 euros.
As we appreciate the pictures of the decorated base cottage, we see that on bluebird day, there will be some long walks that start a fairly short hike from six tops
Seat lift.
There was no chance today, so we put the camera down and went to the tree to find a good old man.
The old-fashioned explosions and the awesome last day in Montenegro, half of which I hope the country will stay away from the routine-at least we missed the three peaks before I came back to ski.
Fly from England to Montenegro or to Podgorica in Dubrovnik or Split in Croatia.
A room at the angelic Hotel (insight-montenegro. com)
Stay at Zabljak bed & breakfast for € 30 per night.
If you need more about Zabljak and Kolasin 1450, visit zabljak.
Com and kolasin1450. com.
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