Mount Veli Vrh, 542m a.s.l., on the Highest Rocky Plateau of the Krk Island; Otok Krk, Primorsko-Goranska Županija, Rijeka, Hrvatska
01-April-2023: as in a joke on the first day of April, I found myself far from my car, still not so far, but progressively moving away, so much so that I was already wondering if I hadn't forgotten something in my (car) prosthesis, given that, in recent years, it has became my second home...
Leaving the black pine wood, you come across mount Veli Vrh, i.e. the first peak, from the west, of the southeast spine of this Kvarner island, made up of 4 main peaks with a secondary, more detached (and unnamed...) close to the Baška furrow, seen in the previous photo, all over 500m above sea level, therefore on the (low) mountain belt according to geographical "laws": 0-200m a.s.l. coasts and plains, 200-500m hill belt, over 500m mountain one.
This relief is the most frequented, both because it is the first with an excellent view towards the heart of the island, and because it is "easily" reachable from the underlying most populous area of the island made up of the capital Krk City and Punat with its vast marina.
Looking for transparent air, therefore rather dry and cold at high altitudes, with solar heating in the afternoon, you "risk" a certain instability, which I like and plays into the photogenic nature of my main passion.
Especially if there is a further nucleus of cold air at high altitudes approaching in the evening.
Here you can choose whether to go directly uphill on Veli Vrh and then take the ridge to reach the highest peak of the island, Obzova (569m a.s.l.; the 3rd of the main range) or choose a less scenic but more varied path which runs north of the ridge mentioned, and climbs more slowly and progressively up to said peak; of course I chose the second one...but also because I've already been on Veli Vrh in my youth.
A perfect day for my weather-photographic purposes, but also a great lunar landscape, certainly valid for my first steps on country land, like a child learning to walk...
Mount Veli Vrh, 542m a.s.l., on the Highest Rocky Plateau of the Krk Island; Otok Krk, Primorsko-Goranska Županija, Rijeka, Hrvatska
01-April-2023: as in a joke on the first day of April, I found myself far from my car, still not so far, but progressively moving away, so much so that I was already wondering if I hadn't forgotten something in my (car) prosthesis, given that, in recent years, it has became my second home...
Leaving the black pine wood, you come across mount Veli Vrh, i.e. the first peak, from the west, of the southeast spine of this Kvarner island, made up of 4 main peaks with a secondary, more detached (and unnamed...) close to the Baška furrow, seen in the previous photo, all over 500m above sea level, therefore on the (low) mountain belt according to geographical "laws": 0-200m a.s.l. coasts and plains, 200-500m hill belt, over 500m mountain one.
This relief is the most frequented, both because it is the first with an excellent view towards the heart of the island, and because it is "easily" reachable from the underlying most populous area of the island made up of the capital Krk City and Punat with its vast marina.
Looking for transparent air, therefore rather dry and cold at high altitudes, with solar heating in the afternoon, you "risk" a certain instability, which I like and plays into the photogenic nature of my main passion.
Especially if there is a further nucleus of cold air at high altitudes approaching in the evening.
Here you can choose whether to go directly uphill on Veli Vrh and then take the ridge to reach the highest peak of the island, Obzova (569m a.s.l.; the 3rd of the main range) or choose a less scenic but more varied path which runs north of the ridge mentioned, and climbs more slowly and progressively up to said peak; of course I chose the second one...but also because I've already been on Veli Vrh in my youth.
A perfect day for my weather-photographic purposes, but also a great lunar landscape, certainly valid for my first steps on country land, like a child learning to walk...