Krofička

Dolgo se nisem javil in nič napisal. Imam kar nekaj pripravljenih prispevkov (tekst), vendar pa še ni slikc za objavit, zato z njimi še čakam. Dolžan sem vam Kitajsko, Bavšico, nekaj plezarije in še kaj...
Tudi danes bom kratek, ker ni časa. Napišem sam nekaj o nedeljskem "izletu" na Krofičko.
S Grmovo Silvo sva nameravala it splezat smer Beli steber (V+) v Rjavčki vrh, vendar sva zaradi "poplave" (beri: dež, dež in dež) spremenila svoj cilj in poletela na Krofičko po klasični poti. Od doma panincev sva do vrha Krofičke (2083 m.n.v.) potrebovala le 2h10min. Ja, dobri 2h za 1246 višinskih metrov. To je skoraj 600m/h. Kar konkreten tempo sva imela in sva bila oba presenečena, ko sva na vrhu pogledala na uro. Na vrhu je pa bilo precej mrzlo in nanju je oba kar hitro zazeblo, vendar sva se vseeno na vrhu zadržala skoraj eno uro.
Silva je tako in tako en sam smeh. To si lahko pogledate v temule filmčku posnetem z mojim fotoaparatom. Aja, pa vid se tud, kok je blo mrzlo gori!

Med povratkom sva se ustavila še v Lučah, kjer so bili Lučki dnevi in tam "zabluzila" 1h. Med vožnjo pa sva malo naprej od Luč pobrala dva štoparja, Slovakinjo in Čeha. Par je potoval po Sloveniji in ker sta bila prav zanimiva sva ju zategnila do avtoceste in jima razložila vse kar se splača videt v SLO. Prav z veseljem sem spet govoril angleščino, angleščino brez tehničnih izrazov...za razliko od angleščine s katero sem se matral na Kitajskem!
Ker Silva ni poznala večini zelo znanega Albanskega sladoleda iz slaščičarne Ohrid v Velenju, sem jo sevede zapeljal v Velenje na sladoled. In res je priznala, da je zelo zelo dober!!

Some difficulties at China

After 8th days living and traveling across China I still have problems mainly with the technical communicating to the Chinese people. While we are on the visit at some factory I get so desperate that if there would be possibility I would take the first plane to go home. But when I am talking to the Filipine guy who is also traveling with me I have great feeling. We can talk almost about everything although sometimes I have some problems with expressing my opinion. But at most occasions he understand what I am trying to tell.
So, that is why I still have some second thoughts about my decision. That is why I will ask Andy (the head manager of Shanghai Representative Office) to give me some time to think about my final decision (to the end of this week I think I can find the right answer).
Otherwise, China is very interesting country. I have seen some many different places until now and I am really surprised by the size of the country. To get from one to another city you need to take a plane, otherwise we would spend to much time with traveling...for example, we were flying hour and a half and we crossed just 1/3 of the country. For me, unimaginable...
If somebody would ask me if I would like to go to travel across China, I would say ''Okey, why not'' in the same minute. It is really so many things to see here...for example, you just need to see how they drive. For example, we are not used to drive in opposite direction on a 4 lane road and similar stuff...
Unfortunately I dont have any pictures to show you in this moment, because I dont have my photo camera with myself. It would be strange for employees in factories we are visiting if I would take pictures with ''BIG'' camera. Sorry for that.
Oooo by the way, I can not visit my blog here at China. I dont know why, I just cant. Today I only manage to get to the setting page of my blog so I can write this post.
Have fun,
I will write something more about my trip as soon as I get home at 4th of July in the evening.

Traveling to China

Well, today is the day when I will exchange my home country Slovenia for China for 14 days. I have a flight to Frankfurt from Brnik at 12.15 and from Frankfurt I will fly directly to Shanghai.
I have 2 suitcases...one is for business porpuses and the other one is for my clothes. The sizes of both cases are almost the same...:)
That means that I have a lot goals to fulfil for a company and I hope I will be successful.
So, wish me luck, have your fingers crossed for me or something like that... :)

I get home in the evening at 4th of July. Since then I wont accept phone calls but I will be reachable for an SMSes. So, please send some to me :) I will be very happy about it and ofcourse, I WILL reply!

Have fun here at Slovenia! For me too...
Ow, I will try to write some posts on a blog while living there!

Last Saturday and Sunday before China

Since I am going to travel to China this Wednesday, this weekend is the last one before it. So I tried to fulfil it as much as possible with the stuff I like to do.
Fot the Saturday I was planning to go on a hike to one of the Rinka's summits with Litija Mountaineering Club. But when I woke up at 4 o'clock in the morning, rain was falling from the sky and nearby hill was totally surrounded with a fog. That is why I just sent SMS to Maja, that I am not coming to the prearranged meeting spot. But after few hours, Maja called me to tell me that at the Kamniška Bistrica the weather was perfect. This was a moment when I just sit in my car and I pushed throttle to the bottom to be there as soon as possible.
If Maja wouldnt called me, I would went to visit Nina, Jana and Primoz to the Primorska province. But when she called me and told me that the weather is perfect overthere, I just couldnt resist to go to check it out.
After finding right path (the path I needed to use to get to the Bivak pod Skuto to meet others from Maja's group is not marked, so I was counting on my map and my sense for orientation to find that bivouac), I ascended more than 1000m higher as the point where I started walking is. I spent 3 hours for that. Because the map I was using is not really the best one, I almost hit Bivak pod Skuto because of a fog which was sorrounding it.
But when I wanted to take a photo of a little bivouac under Skuta's peak, I found out that I forgot to insert CF card into my photo camera, so carrieng whole photo gear with me was useless :( That is why I can not show you pictures from the trip.
Today...I was on a picnic at my aunt's place. After that I went to Velenje to see competition of horse carriages and horse gallops. It was hot and sunny, so pictures are not very good due to the strong brightness and very sharp light...

Horsie eating chopped wood?

That is better...horsie eating hay

Girl on the picture is my niece. Her name is Loti.

Run, run, run...

I am at the front...can you catch me?

Horse hairstayle for special occasions...

4 legs...how many horses do you see?

Dady, buy me a horsie like that... :)

I am watching you...

I have a need, a need to tell you this

Are you asking yourself, what is that I need to tell you?
Hehehe, well, this is mybe the best success that I have had since I have my photo camera.
Last October I sent this picture to the editor of Planinski Vestnik (short PV) magazine and to be honest, my hopes that he will use that picture in one of next issues of PV faded out until now.
But...there is always but...2 days ago I got a call from Bojan and he told me that there is my picture at the front page of PV...I was so suprised that I almost forgot to speak and to express my enthusiasm, so there was a few seconds of silence...:) And in next minute I run downstairs to get my own issue of PV( I am a subscriber of PV too but nobody told me that it came home with a post that day) to see it...
And...here it is:

That is all.

Owww, by the way...next Wednesday I have a flight to China :S Have your fingers crossed for me please...I need all the luck in the world to do the best I can!

P.S.: Does anybody need something from there? I accept orders now :) Until this moment I have got so much orders that I would have to rent a shipping container to get everthing (if I will find all ordered stuff) to Slovenia....hehehe, I am joking a little bit :P

Report and climbing again

Well, I've got few E-mails with the questions about my final interview, so I quess it is time to tell (write) some words about it.
I met my future boss 2 Fridays ago and we discussed almost everthing about China thing. After all, we didnt talk in English. I assumed that if I would asked him something like that he would saw me like somebody who is not self-confident. So, that is why I didnt do that.
He proposed me to visit China at the end of June to see if job overthere is what I am expecting.
But last Friday he called me and he asked me if I would come there as soon as I would have time to do that. So, today I finally sent him my "duty" calendar and I think I will go there in next 14 days. And I will spend there 10-14 days to get the filling about the job that I am applying for and to get the close view of China also.
I am very glad that he gave me a chance for close view and for a possibility to say NO if i would not like it.
Today, Bojan, one of my the best friends, gave me Lonely Planet China and Chineese phrase book. He owns that books bacause few years ago he went there to see Chinese's way of living and their's Culture.
I tried to read some Chinese translations and I almost break my tongue while doing it ;) It is really hard language to speak.

Yesterday I went to Kotečnik rock-climbing area to test my right shoulder. More than a month and a half ago I injured it while climbing some serious routes. The injury was so bad that I just couldnt rise my arm more than 20 cm. After month and a half I finally dont feel any pain in my shouder when I load some pressure to it. But, because I didnt want to injure my shoulder again, I climbed just few easy routes. Afterwards I just watched other climebrs and took some pictures of them.

Shanghai...

Shanghai…

This post is written in English because of a theme I am talking about.
Last week my boss told me that company where I am working is searching a man to go to Shanghai for at least 2 years. He said that he proposed me because I am a perpective employee.
They offered me a really good job where I would contact China local companies and try to get a deal that they would work for us. They would produce low cost components for Gorenje's house machines which we are producing over here at Slovenia.
I would work in a small team. In this team there are already 5 persons (boss, 2 Slovenian girls that translate our language to Chinese language, 1 Filippine guy who is responsible for colecting, getting and sending test samples to Slovenia and one Chinese girl whos job is translation from English to Chinese language). My job would be very dinamic, I would travel a lot across China to visit those companies that are good enough and that are prepared to work for us.
They also offered me quite big amount of money if I would go over there and they also promised they would give me better job than I have now when I would get back from China, that is after 2 years of living and working there.
But…
There is always but…I have worries about my knowledge of English. It is true that I don't speak much English because I dont have much possibilities to do that…but in the other hand I can write good english and I also understand english if I am speaking with somene who speaks only English. That is why I am not so self-confident in my speaking English like I am in my technical skills. So, I guess I would improve my talking English if I would be pushed to situation where other languages are not understood.
And because of that reason I dont know what decision I will make.
Tomorrow I have final interview and to test myself I will ask my interviewers if we can talk in English to test me if my English skills are good enough. It they will say YES, YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH I will accept their opinion and I will go. But if my English wont be good enough they will say themselfs that I cant go over there to China.

So, please, have your fingers crossed and wish me luck tomorrow.
If I will do okey, I will be the happiest person on the world.

Have a great time.

Picture of Shanghai from the Web

Olki, spet sm bil v Trž'ču...:)

Hehe, Olki ja, bil sem v unih tvojih koncih. S kolegom sva skočila na Dobrčo, vaš domači hibč'k. Zadeva ni (pre)visoka, a vendar precej zanimiva. Pot navzgor z Brezja je zanimiva, saj vseskozi poteka po gozdu in je zgledno urejena.
Mojo začetno zagnanost Bojan hitro ohladi, za kar sem mu kar hvaležen, saj me noge bolijo še od prejšnjega dne, ko sem rekordno hitro »skočil« na Uršljo goro (beri: prepolovil sem markirano časovnico).
Na vrh samo 15 minut za nama prispe starejša gospa in oba sva presenečena, da je tako hitra. Prehitela sva jo na začetku poti in nismo hodila počasi (uradna časovnica je 2h45min, midva sva prispela v 1h45min).
Skočiva še na razgledno točko, nato pa hitro do koče pojest ješprenj in nato v dolino. Kazalo je namreč, da bo se bo vreme zarotilo proti nama. Na srečo nama je prizaneslo.

P.S.: Kupujen nov fotoaparat. Naj kupim Canon eos 30D ali počakam na njegovega naslednika?

Na razgledni točki...

Andrej se je pustil celo fotografirati...:) V Odzadju Begunjščica in Stol s klobukom... Svišč...ena izmed prvih zaščitenih gorskih rožic pri nas
Bojan se vpisuje na vrhu hriba...
Na vrhu...


Razgledna točka...na skrajni desni se vidi začetek najdaljšega, 14km dolgega grebena pri nas (Košuta)

Stikalo je zopet na poziciji SKALA!

Jutri bom tretjič v tem tednu utrujal čez zimo zmehčane "ročice" in jih pridno namakal v, kakšni prepovedani substanci podoben prašek, magnezij ;)
Že v sredo mi je prvič uspelo preplezati smer z oceno 6b, vendar sem pri tem enkrat omahnil kot jabolko, ki mu je črv spodjedel pecelj, saj mi je zdrsnila roka pri vpenjanjanju vrvi v komplet.
Jutri se bo torej zgodil juriš na ocene 6b. Zvečer pa bodo rokce zagotovo spet rahlo boleče.
Prejšnjo nedeljo pa sem v plezališču Kotečnik imel celo "škljocalico" s sabo. Sicer slikce niso bohvekaj (WB sem falil kot že dolgo ne, pa še razmeroma visok ISO sem moral uporabljati zaradi slabe svetlobe), ampak vseen je izpadlo nekaj zanimivih, v času zamrzjenih trenutkov.

Jap, "climberke" so čedna dekleta...sploh če jih v pretežno senčni steni najde z neba poslan žarek topline (sonca)...

Gorazd Hren v smeri z oceno 8a+ (sj to pa sploh ni težko, kje pa ;)...)

Ka te ti delaš? Splezaj že enkrat...sej je samo 8a+...js se že dolgočasim tu...;) (hec...)

A tu gor moram al kaj? Ehhh, ni panike...dva giba pa sm tam!

Severna Triglavska stena in turni smuk Za Cmirom

Prejšnjo soboto popoldne sem se po hitrem postopku in po celodnevnem delu v gozdu odpravil v Severno Triglavsko steno (krajše: Stena), kjer smo se s kolegi namenili preplezati Slovensko smer in nato za Cmirom smučati nazaj v Vrata.
Zvečer smo v Vratih našli zimsko sobo, kjer so že smrčali trije "smrčači", ki nikakor niso bili navdušeni, da se jim bo pridružilo še 6 ljudi. Na koncu je v sobi za 6 spanja potrebnih ljudi spalo kar 9 kot rib zloženih "manglcov". No, bolj smo meditirali kot pa spali.
Ob štirih zjutraj smo se odpravli na pot in še v jutranjem mraku zgrešili vstop v Slovensko smer. Tako je padla odločitev, da se na vrh Stene povzpnemo kar čez Prag. Ta pot pa nam je ponudila nekaj kratkih skalnih skokov. Na enem od njih sta 2 pred mano podrla stopinje in ni mi preostalo drugega, da sem zataknil okel cepina za skalo in si tako poiskati oporo za ravnotežje. Ker sem tega opravila nevešč, sem malce bojazljivo vprašal Branča (bil je pod mano), če bo to držalo. Branč pa neb bil Branč, če ne bi rekel: "Upajmo!" in zlezel malo nižje po skalah mimo mene. Tako mi ni preostalo drugega, da sem zaupal zataknjenemu cepinu in zlezel čez skok.
Na robu stene nas je sevede pričakalo vroče sonce, ki ga nihče od nas ni bil pretirano vesel, saj je napovedovalo težavno smučanje. Smučanje res ni bilo enostavno, ker se je sneg spremenil v "poc", ki ga je bilo treba odrivati po nekaj zavojih s super bolečinami v nekaterih nožnih mišicah. Le tu in tam se je ponudila priložnost za puščanje lepe sledi v obliki kače v snegu...da je zatrepetalo srce od nadušenja, ko si se ustavil in pogledal po pobočju nazaj v brege.
(vrstni red slik je pomešan)

A gremo na Triglav?

Tik pred spustom v dolino.

Spet Triglav pozira...

Na robu Stene.

Staničeva koča z Begunjskim vrhom v ozadju.

Križ, Škrlatica, Rokavi...

Skoraj raj si (smučarski), ti pobočje... :)

Ja, ponavadi sm js na zadnji strani aparata...ne na sprednji ;)

Sicer ponavadi ne objavljam fotografij drugih avtorjev, ampak danes bom naredil izjemo.
Ker mi je nakaj ljudi reklo, da se nikjer na mojih slikah ne vidi kako js plezam, tokrat objavljam nekaj fotografij Branka Ivaneka, ki si je med plezanjem vzel toliko časa, da me je malo poslikal.
Hvala Branč! Upam, da se bom še kdaj lahko nastavlal pred tvojim objektivom ;)

Prvi skok na vstopu v smer Bela piramida

Od blizu se vidijo vse dlake :S Frante, očitno se ti je britvica "skrhala" :D

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