What are the skiing prices (like spending a week on ski vacation) on average in Slovenia compared to more expensive countries like France, Italy, Austria or Switzerland? Are they much lower or not really? Purely theoretical interest.
We lack glaciers and variety.. you get more snow and more everything (valuewise) if you go to Austria or Italy.
I haven't skied in years, but our ski hills are slowly dying out due to their relatively low altitude and global warming.. not enough natural snow means more artificial snow means more costs, etc.
It is... frustrating. To know the dangers and consequences of global warming for decades, and still do almost nothing about it.
In an ideal world, we would cooperate more, globally, all countries and people, to make sure our home planet is a good place to live. Skiing is among the least problematic things that is affected by rising temperatures, there are also natural disasters that will cause humanitarian crisis, some already did, etc.
And then some rich bimbo on ketamine blabs about colonizing Mars..
But untill we are still here, there is hope that things might get better, just maybe not for our generation.
A bit lower, but the Slovenian resorts are tiny; the largest one, Maribor, has 34km of slopes. For comparison, that's about as much as classic budget picks Bansko and Borovets over in Bulgaria have. And Italy/France/Austria/Switzerland all have much bigger resorts so you'll get better value for money there.
Pure skiing, bad value for money. Small slopes with prices comparable to Austria (maybe 10% lower). You must find value elsewhere to complement a stay in Slovenia imo.
Like, I'd go to France for a week and just ski 90% of the time. Doing the same in Slovenia, I'd have to find something else as well. Slovenia has skiing, its just not the main thing you do there.
The Alps were supposed to be the northen natural border of Italy, so they had to end somewhere near the sea, in order to constitute a complete border. The 1924 geographical congress thus included in the Alps the Karst and the Istrian mountains, and found the eastern end of the Alps to be at Vrata Pass, near Fužine. That is, in what is now Croatia. The subsequent orographical international classification has assigned these territories to the Dinaric Alps instead, and has established the Danube as the eastern border of the Alps.
I mean, it was surely somewhat politically motivated. I feel like this general idea is still adopted in Italy though (without any political connotation anymore).
If the Alps are supposed to be the natural border of Italy, and if they would end at the Vrata Pass in Croatia.. that kinda reminds of the map of Kingdom of Italy from around 1924, that is why I assumed it was politically motivated.
What about the current textbooks in Italy, do they say the Alps end in Croatia?
These are the coordinates from the point where the photo was taken: 45.824756,15.593550 . It's 100km away; I was guessing when I wrote 130km, but I wasn't that far from correct. The photo was taken with a Samsung Ultra with a 10x telephoto lens, so it looks like it's closer. On clear day you can see even further no problem.
great shout, gtp says that church is 'Sts. Primus & Felician Church' about 40ks from the julian alps. looks like a good match to me. also the church is in slovenia as well. any slovenian bros here can pitch in?
The church is in Croatia, less than 1 km from where I took this photo. The Alps are 115 km from this point of view, not 130 km as I was guessing. I checked on maps. This photo was taken with a Samsung Ultra 10x telephoto camera, so it appears that the church and Alps are near, but they aren't.
GPT hallucinating again, there is a famous church in Jamnik (Sts Primus and Felician) which is on hundreds of photos with a backdrop of Karawanken Alps, but this is certainly not it!
The range in the photo is the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the angle suggests a photo from the south-east. The church is Sts Peter and Paul in Stojdraga, Croatia.
TIL: Alps stretch out to Slovenia. I wanted to visit Slovenia, for beautiful nature, when I have the opportunity. Now it’s up on the list for quite a few positions :)
I miss this.. we've had such thick fog this weekend, couldn't see further than 50m in some places.
Didn't know you could see the Alps from Croatia, nice.
I took this photo a week ago; this whole week here was also foggy.
What are the skiing prices (like spending a week on ski vacation) on average in Slovenia compared to more expensive countries like France, Italy, Austria or Switzerland? Are they much lower or not really? Purely theoretical interest.
We lack glaciers and variety.. you get more snow and more everything (valuewise) if you go to Austria or Italy.
I haven't skied in years, but our ski hills are slowly dying out due to their relatively low altitude and global warming.. not enough natural snow means more artificial snow means more costs, etc.
Pretty sad... Looks like the only dependable ski resorts of the future will be over the Polar Circle...
It is... frustrating. To know the dangers and consequences of global warming for decades, and still do almost nothing about it.
In an ideal world, we would cooperate more, globally, all countries and people, to make sure our home planet is a good place to live. Skiing is among the least problematic things that is affected by rising temperatures, there are also natural disasters that will cause humanitarian crisis, some already did, etc.
And then some rich bimbo on ketamine blabs about colonizing Mars..
But untill we are still here, there is hope that things might get better, just maybe not for our generation.
A bit lower, but the Slovenian resorts are tiny; the largest one, Maribor, has 34km of slopes. For comparison, that's about as much as classic budget picks Bansko and Borovets over in Bulgaria have. And Italy/France/Austria/Switzerland all have much bigger resorts so you'll get better value for money there.
Pure skiing, bad value for money. Small slopes with prices comparable to Austria (maybe 10% lower). You must find value elsewhere to complement a stay in Slovenia imo.
Like, I'd go to France for a week and just ski 90% of the time. Doing the same in Slovenia, I'd have to find something else as well. Slovenia has skiing, its just not the main thing you do there.
According to the traditional partition used in Italy, the Alps end in Croatia itself.
That sounds interesting, but I don't understand how that is possible, care to explain?
The Alps were supposed to be the northen natural border of Italy, so they had to end somewhere near the sea, in order to constitute a complete border. The 1924 geographical congress thus included in the Alps the Karst and the Istrian mountains, and found the eastern end of the Alps to be at Vrata Pass, near Fužine. That is, in what is now Croatia. The subsequent orographical international classification has assigned these territories to the Dinaric Alps instead, and has established the Danube as the eastern border of the Alps.
Ah ok, so it's an outdated, possibly politically motivated, definition.. got it, thanks.
I mean, it was surely somewhat politically motivated. I feel like this general idea is still adopted in Italy though (without any political connotation anymore).
If the Alps are supposed to be the natural border of Italy, and if they would end at the Vrata Pass in Croatia.. that kinda reminds of the map of Kingdom of Italy from around 1924, that is why I assumed it was politically motivated.
What about the current textbooks in Italy, do they say the Alps end in Croatia?
Honestly I don't know. Wikipedia mentions several Italian books which follow this convention, but I don't know whether that's the most common case.
But I feel like in Italy the Julian Alps are usually referred to as the eastermost part of the Alps, instead of the Styrian Alps.
Nice picture !
Reminds me of when I'm getting close to driving through the Rockies on the British Columbian side.
How many kilometers far away are those snowy mountains from the camera?
Just cheked on google maps and its 115km, photo was taken with S22 Ultra 10x zoom .
Hows the dkiing in Slovenia, do the have resorts or just local skiing.
Not bad honestly, reminds me of the view near Lake Bled when I was in Slovenia last year.
this Saturday I saw the Alps from the sea during the sunrise
white with the orange Sun color
I was awestruck
Call bullshit on 130km, way to clear of a view.
These are the coordinates from the point where the photo was taken: 45.824756,15.593550 . It's 100km away; I was guessing when I wrote 130km, but I wasn't that far from correct. The photo was taken with a Samsung Ultra with a 10x telephoto lens, so it looks like it's closer. On clear day you can see even further no problem.
great shout, gtp says that church is 'Sts. Primus & Felician Church' about 40ks from the julian alps. looks like a good match to me. also the church is in slovenia as well. any slovenian bros here can pitch in?
The church is in Croatia, less than 1 km from where I took this photo. The Alps are 115 km from this point of view, not 130 km as I was guessing. I checked on maps. This photo was taken with a Samsung Ultra 10x telephoto camera, so it appears that the church and Alps are near, but they aren't.
whats the church called?
45.836779,15.567442 this are the coordinates beacuse i cant post maps short link, comments got deleted.
yep looks legit. chatshite gtp strikes again!
GPT hallucinating again, there is a famous church in Jamnik (Sts Primus and Felician) which is on hundreds of photos with a backdrop of Karawanken Alps, but this is certainly not it!
The range in the photo is the Kamnik-Savinja Alps and the angle suggests a photo from the south-east. The church is Sts Peter and Paul in Stojdraga, Croatia.
there are several churches with the same name in slovenia…
you can clearly see the alps from other parts of croatia as well btw
TIL: Alps stretch out to Slovenia. I wanted to visit Slovenia, for beautiful nature, when I have the opportunity. Now it’s up on the list for quite a few positions :)
Yk Slovenia is generally known as an Alpine nation
I knew it is mountainous. I knew it has some access to Adriatic Sea. But somehow the fact that Alps stretch that far eluded me, ngl.
Good work, the photo dosn't look very slovenly.