Svino - Monte Mataiur/Matajur (slovenska smer)

Access to starting point:
A) From Tolmin we drive towards the center of Kobarid, where still before the center of the town we turn left towards the settlement Svino. We park before the settlement Svino, on an appropriate place by the road. In the settlement Svino there are no arranged parking spots.
B) From Bovec, we drive towards Tolmin. When we reach the road Tolmin - Kobarid, we continue right towards the border crossing Robič and center of Kobarid. Before the center of Kobarid we turn left towards the settlement Svino. We park before the settlement Svino, on an appropriate place by the road. In the settlement Svino there are no arranged parking spots.
C) From the border crossing Robič we drive towards Kobarid and Tolmin. In Kobarid we continue right towards Tolmin, and then we soon go once again right in the direction of the settlement Svino. We park before the settlement Svino, on an appropriate place by the road. In the settlement Svino there are no arranged parking spots.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the road by which we've parked, and after a good five minutes of walking, we get to the village Svino, where we notice signs for Matajur, which point us left (right Sužid).
We continue left, among houses and less noticeable signs for Matajur. The right path goes a little more left and past houses leads through pastures, behind which the path goes into the forest. Further on, blazes are more frequent and also orientation is easier.
The path then starts ascending steeper and after approximately half an hour of walking, it brings us to a wider cart track which comes from the village Sužid. Further, we ascend for some time on the cart track, which has quite a few junctions, but the path is well marked. Before the dilapidated old military hut, the path to Matajur directs us left upwards. Here the cart track changes into a steep mule track, which on a quite steep slope brings us higher to less steep slopes. The path then brings us to a newer forest road, which we only cross. On the other side of the road, we ascend a few steps and in front of us we notice shepherd huts on Svinska planina.
On the mountain pasture we notice signs "left planina Idrsko" and right "planina Sužid", there are no signs for Matajur, but the path towards Matajur is marked.
We find the continuation of the path among the huts on the mountain pasture and it continues through a smaller indistinct valley. Despite the path being marked, it is in places poorly visible and somewhat overgrown. After approximately 15 minutes of walking from the mountain pasture we come to a water reservoir and nearby we notice mountain signposts. Here we head straight in the direction of Matajur, on a still poorly visible but marked path. The path then leads us across an overgrown meadow, behind which we join a well-trodden path which arrives from the village Avsa, or Livek.
We continue right towards Matajur and a few minutes of traverse ascent follow, then we already arrive at the next junction below Glava, where we leave the usual path to Matajur and continue straight towards Visoka glava (left the usual path to Matajur).
A fairly level walk follows on the path that runs north of the eastern Matajur ridge and which is, except in dry periods, quite muddy. When we approach the northern ridge of Matajur, we almost imperceptibly cross the state border, then in a traverse ascent to the right we reach the aforementioned ridge (Sedlo), where we join a better-trodden path which we follow to the left. For a short time we still ascend gently to moderately, then the path becomes quite steep and in wet conditions also quite slippery. After approximately 10 minutes the path levels out, then in a moderate ascent and with nice views we reach the summit of Matajur.
Starting point - Svinska planina - 2:40, Svinska planina - Matajur 1:20.

On the way: Svinska planina (1214m)