Some surprises in the Durmitor, day I

Bon reveil dans une tente ca m'etait pas arrive depuis hier... a non meme pas vrais.

Sorry i was reading the blog of my French co travler. Got all frenched up... So we woke up and got on our way to the supermarket, got a map, some food for several days. Damn the back pack si heavy, must be close to 20 kilos with the added water and food for 3-4 days... Alain goes to the post office and gets slightly driven mad by the local o so slow o so not english understanding post man! Ok lets go!

We decide to check with the information point first for extra info about the huts and camping/fire places. Ariving there, there is only a young guy, bored, watching youtube videos who will be all but helpfull! Here is more or less what our conversation was like:

-He first tells us it is cold.
-Yea we know we just slept outside.
-It is colder up there.
-Yea ok. So what about huts?
-They are privat.
-No mountain huts?
-No.
-Why does it say so on the map then?
-This is old map, i have new one if you want.
- ... (checking the printing date) It is not old, it is from 2007!
- Oh yes, ok soooo... here there is a camping and huts, but you have to pay, or maybe not, bacaus nobody will be up there yet... (he shows us a valley, or rathere a circus in the mountains)
- Nevermind, can you recomend some areas in this park?
- Euuuu you can check the lake (typical tourist atraction here...)
- Yea we will do that but after, further?
- it is still early, there is snow, tourist season did not start. I dont recomend you go anywhere...
- Mmm yea we saw the snow. What altitude does it start? how much is there?
- O last week a guide took some tourist, they were warned it would not be easy but wanted to go, they had snow until there hips...
- ????? (what the #ç%! is he talking about, its june, this mountin goes up to some 2500m... cant be no fresh snow...)
- And you should be carfull, it is dangerous, snow glides, you know, avalanches...
- ?!? (now this, i get the impression this guy never went further than the lake and spends days watching youtube...) Ok we will be carfull. Ciao.
- Ok Ciao, hope i helped you out...

This guy was of striclty no help and as we later discovered, he was the greatest danger on this treck, he indicated us the wrong circus, in the one he said, there was no hut, no camping, just snow and rocks...

So we start walking and discover more and more that this Park might be Unesco clasified, it could also be calsified as a land field... Garbage everywhere on the street side...

First stop, at the crno jezero (black lake), full of tourist, the autobus of kids is yieling on the other side... short stop, some jokes, some songs and lets go up. The walk up is not easy becaus of the heavy packs. At least the sun is not shining to hard and we are not sweating to much.

Small break on a rock full of lizards. In the back you can see the Bogotov Kuk we are planing to climp if there is not too much snow up there. Now our aim is to find a base camp to put our stuff and from where we can do smaller day walks around.

Alain, fully packed on this beautifull carpet of grass, in sight of what i going to be our camp.

We reach our objective after some 2-3 hours very much interupted walk. I almost twisted my left ankle again but its nothing bad, i can still walk and the nice journey up here is not compromised (altough i tough so for a while, i realy have to do something about this ankle that keeps twisting). So no worries mom and dad, it all fine, i can still run around on the rocks! So we found this beautifull bivouk from where we will do the next walks. But the day is not over we decide to do one today!
More about this tomorrow!