Bohinjska Bistrica - Črna prst (via Planina za Črno goro)
Starting point: Bohinjska Bistrica (530 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2702°N 13.9568°E
Path name: via Planina za Črno goro
Time of walking: 4 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1314 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1345 m
Map: TNP 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive on Bled, and then we continue driving towards Bohinj. When we get to Bohinjska Bistrica, from the roundabout we continue in the direction of Soriška planina and Tolmin, and then we get to the road Jelovška cesta, where at house number 10 there is the beginning of the described path. We park somewhere nearby, best by the foot of the former ski slope Kobla.
B) From Železniki or Petrovo Brdo we drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, where on the road Jelovška cesta at house number 10 there is the beginning of the described path. We park somewhere nearby, best by the foot of the former ski slope Kobla.
C) To the starting point, we can get to also with a train.
Path description:
From Jelovška cesta 10 we continue towards the southwest, where already after few meters, we notice signposts for Črna prst. From houses the path passes on a cart track, on which we in few minutes ascend to military cemetery from the first world war Rebro. The marked path bypasses the cemetery on the right side, and then leads us through an ample meadow, where few minutes ahead we join a little wider cart track. We continue slightly left, after that few 10 meters further we cross a macadam road, where at first a distinct cart track gradually starts ascending. Higher, at the crossing of cart track, we choose the right branch, by which there are old signs for Črna prst, from there we go little higher once again slightly right on a footpath which starts ascending steeper. All the time we are ascending by quite rare signs, after that on a smaller mowed meadow we reach the cart track which we follow to the left, there in few steps we reach a wider macadam road.
When we reach the road, we continue left downwards following the signs Črna prst (right old path towards the mountain hut Orožnova koča), and few 10 strides lower at the marked crossing we turn right in the direction of Črna prst, mountain pasture Planina za Črno goro and Orožnova koča. The path ahead on the right side bypasses a privat house (used to be mountain hut Planinski dom dr. Janeza Mencingerja), after that a little ahead it joins a cart track, on which we continue to ascend. A little higher, at the crossing we continue right, and then the path continues through the forest. Even a little further, the path leads past a log cabin and a cross, and then we already get to a marked crossing, where we continue left (right mountain hut Orožnova koča).
Further, the cart track changes into a footpath, and a little higher it brings us to a forest road which we follow to the right. Few strides we walk on the road, and then signs for Črna prst point us to the left on a steep footpath. We continue the ascent on at first relatively steep path, which further leads past a man made ditches, which were intended for drainage of water (ditch was built to prevent ingression of water into Bohinj tunnel). Higher, the footpath for some time entirely flattens, and then it moderately ascends to the mountain pasture Za Črno goro.
When we step on the mountain pasture, the marked path turns to the left and then through a ditch semicircular bypasses the mountain pasture. On the other side of the mountain pasture, we continue left and start moderately ascending through at first a thin forest. After few minutes of additional walking the footpath passes into the forest, and it brings us to a marked crossing, where we continue sharply right in the direction of Črna prst (straight Kobla, Soriška planina, Porezen...).
Higher, the footpath makes few long zig-zags, after that from a thinner forest or lane of bushes brings us to the scree below Rušni vrh. Here the path for some time flattens, and then on the other side of the scree starts ascending steeply on grassy groove below the ridge of Home. On this part in the late spring there is increased danger of falling stones. Higher, the groove ends, and the path crosses a short steep slope, where in the early summer snow fields are still possible. Above the steep part we join the path from the mountain hut Orožnova koča, and only a few meters higher we step on the ridge, which we reach on the saddle Čez Suho.
Here we continue right and with a view on Baška grapa, Bohinj and the highest peaks of the Julian Alps, in few minutes we ascend to the mountain hut Dom na Črni prsti, which is situated only few meters below the summit.
Mountain hut Dom Zorka Jelinčiča we bypass on the left side and over a short steep slope in few steps we ascend on a panoramic peak.
Bohinjska Bistrica - Planina za Črno goro 2:15, Planina za Črno goro - Čez Suho 1:30, Čez Suho - Črna prst 15 minutes.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (August).
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