Slovenia

our favorite phrase as we raced through the triglav lakes valley on our 4th hour in the freezing, pouring rain... actually it was 'show me the hut' and also 'i really should have brought my rainpants'. turns out the trashbags we were wearing didnt provide too much rain protection. we had a great time hiking hut to hut in triglav national park in the julian alps in slovenia. the hiking was fantastic, and eating and staying overnight in the mountain huts was a great experience as we were able to really interact with local slovenians. we got really rained on on the second day of the hike (keeping the percentage of european hikes that we've been rained on solidly at 100%), so were unable to summit mt triglav, slovenias highest peak.

we spent another few days in the lake bohinj and bled regions doing short hikes and swimming and paddling around the alpine lakes. we also went on a fantastic canyoning trip -- loving the waterproof camera.