Ski hotel Vogel - Tolminski Kuk

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce and follow the road towards Bled and forward towards Bohinjska Bistrica. We continue driving towards the lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where we come to a crossroad, where we continue straight on the left (south) side of the lake in the direction of Ukanc and waterfall Savica. We follow this road to the bottom station of the cable car on Vogel, then we buy a ticket and go with a cableway to the upper station, which is the starting point for our tour.

Path description:
At Ski Hotel we go right (towards the west) and we continue on a macadam road which goes past the mountain hut Merjasec. The road starts slightly descending and it brings us to a crossroad. We go on the right road following the signs »Komna, Sirarna Zadnji Vogel«. The road is still slightly descending and we are soon at a crossing again. This time we go to the left road following the signs »Pl Zadnji Vogel, Komna«. Already after few ten meters of ascent then caption on rock (Vogel) points us on a footpath which goes right in the forest. The path through the forest runs parallel with the road and starts slightly descending. When we again join the road we continue by following the signs »Pl. Zadnji Vogel«. The road then crosses a cableway Zadnji Vogel and it brings us to a crossing at the cheese cottage Zadnji Vogel.
We continue straight past cheese cottage and we follow the signs »Komna« (left path on Vogel branches off). The path then through dwarf pines it brings us into the forest and again starts descending a little. The path which runs into a valley towards the hotel Zlatorog branches off to the right, and we continue on the left path, which soon brings us out of the forest and nice views open up on surrounding peaks. The path here starts ascending again and runs mostly on a grassy terrain surrounded by rare dwarf pines. The path slowly starts turning to the left and it brings us to a crossing. Left leads the path towards the saddle Globoko (1828 meters), and we continue right towards the saddle Konjsko sedlo. Here we start ascending on the left side of the valley, and view is the most beautiful on Konjski vrh and Bohinjski Migovec. When we reach the saddle we continue right following the signs »Komna«, left leads the path towards Vogel. The path from the saddle starts descending and crosses slopes on the west side of Bohinjski Migovec (1901 meters). We are soon at the crossing again.
Here we continue left (right Komna) in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na planini Razor, on the path which starts ascending diagonally towards the right. After a shorter crossing, the path leads us past a smaller valley, where we step from the slopes of Bohinjski Migovec on more rocky slopes of Vrh nad Škrbino. Here the path turns a little to the right and over small rough scree brings us to a smaller gully, after which we go into a very short lane of dwarf pines. Above the dwarf pines, the path for a short time steeply ascends, and then it flattens and crosses steep scree towards the right (this part is usually in the early summer still covered with snow, therefore then crampons and ice axe are mandatory). The path ahead on the left side bypasses a smaller sinkhole, in which through the entire year stays snow. On the other side of the sinkhole, the path starts ascending steeply towards the notch Škrbina, which we reach after approximately 15 minutes of additional ascent.
When we step on Škrbina, a nice view opens up on Primorska side, and at the crossing, we continue right in the direction of Kuk (left Vrh nad Škrbino, straight downwards mountain hut Koča na planini Razor). The path ahead starts ascending diagonally over steep plates, and then both path and also slope flatten out a little. The path ahead passes below shorter wall of Vrh Kont, and then starts gently descending over occasionally steeper scree. The path ahead on Primorska side crosses also Podrta gora and Mali vrh, and then returns on the main ridge of Spodnje Bohinjske gore, which reaches right on the saddle between Mali vrh and Zeleni vrh. From here we continue in the same direction, only that path from the slopes passes on in parts exposed ridge. The marked path, which occasionally relatively steeply ascends, then with increasingly beautiful views, we follow all the way to grassy Zeleni vrh.
From Zeleni vrh we descend on a marked path which starts descending steeper towards the west. The slope on which we are descending quickly narrows and the path brings us on narrow and slightly exposed ridge. Here the path flattens, and we quickly reach the small saddle, from which we start ascending towards Tolminski Kuk. Above the small saddle follows a short steep ascent, and then the path passes on the ridge, on and by which we are ascending to the highest peak of Spodnje Bohinjske gore.

On the way: Konjsko sedlo (1782m), Škrbina (1910m), Zeleni vrh (2052m)

Trip can be extended to: Podrta gora