Today's walk, from the mountain hut where we spent the night to Tolmin was only a little farther than yesterday's walk: 9.4 miles. There was only 1650' of up, but almost 3500' of down.
Leaving the mountain, the Soča valley shrouded in fog.
Croucus's in their full fall glory. Sheep for reference.
There are signs of WW1 bunkers and emplacements all along the trail
For more than 2 years beginning in 1915, a Hungarian regimen defended this hill from the Italian army, and build this shrine to their dead and wounded, chiseling tunnels and caves into the rock to protect them from artillery fire.
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