Having a look around

Went up Cerna Hora again today, only with the bubble lift this time although that meant queueing for 45 minutes. Explored some of the trails up on and around the top. Pretty nice I may say there are a lot of trails but to us it was not quite clear were they'd lead to. The were some maps at crossings but I kinda missed the "you are here"-marker. So we had to trust our own built in navigation - common sense that is, haha.

It also resulted in us not daring to go down a few ski-trails fearing to end up somewhere completely else with only two options: going all the way up again or taking a path aaaaaall the way around at the base of the mountain.
I would've done it adventurous as I am, but with my dad not being in shape at all it was too risky. Fine by me.

We went down again after like 2,5h of skiing. Doesn't sound much, but we're still beginners. That means spending too much energy on nothing just by not doing it right, y'know? I burned 1500 calories in that short period of time. Not bad, eh?

So we took the car to Svoboda the neighbouring village to go for a walk. Ended up buying some groceries at a small store. They seem to have "Spätis" here as it is Sunday and we didn't quite expect anything but restaurants to be open. As it was too early to go home yet, we explored some more by car going to the ski area called Pec. The main road is lined with hotels and restaurants and it's a lot busier.

Svoboda

Turned the car around as the valley - surrounded by mountains at least 1000m high - ended here and went back home. Had food at "our" restaurant which was fabulous again.

It's not yet decided what we're going to do tomorrow. Decent snow can only be found at like 800m so we need to go up somewhere. Maybe we go to Pec tomorrow and look for some ski trails there.

This area seems to be quite nice if you've been here a couple of times and know your way around. You really have to know where to go cross country skiing. Why is there no map of the area showing all of the trails? Well, maybe we're just lazy Germans who are used to having everything given to us on a plate, hahaha.