A Mega Hiking Trail Across the Western Balkans
Update 09/2019:
Leider scheint der Trail zur Zeit nicht begehbar zu sein. Das berichtet Vladimir Mandic in seinem Kommentar vom 14.08.2019.
Via Dinarica
Update 09/2019:
Leider scheint der Trail zur Zeit nicht begehbar zu sein. Das berichtet Vladimir Mandic in seinem Kommentar vom 14.08.2019.
Hello dear hiking friends!
For two days I have been back from my Via Dinarica tour.
To anticipate: this way is NOT (!!!) in reality. The paths are either not available (I do not want to speak of signage) or so overgrown that a normal hiking is not possible. So please, please do not want to go this way – it just does not exist.
I am a very experienced and very persistent walker and had my own difficulties with a GPS device (Garmin etrex 30x). Not infrequently, I felt lost. Yes, also with GPS device!
The GPS route provided by some websites is NOT really !!! existent. I loaded the gpx file to my Garmin etrex 30x and had to realize on the first day that this is just a route created on the PC. No one has wandered in recent years. It may be that there were (some) these ways once, but today (in August 2019) just not anymore. I also did everything as video material as evidence. Who says anything else does not mean this trail. One can not imagine how disappointed and above all angry at the makers of this tour was / am.
The trails are nonexistent. Here is advertised for something that does not exist.
Imagine that hikers from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the US … get there, and realize on the first day that there is no such way. I do not want to imagine their disappointment not to speak of other emotions.
This MUST be represented differently. How could one proceed here?
Yours sincerely,
Vladimir Mandic