| j.6. 05. 2022 11:57:41 |
The day before yesterday (Wednesday, May 4) from the parking by Jasna lake to the hut in Mali Pišnica and along the hunter's path to Ciprnik. Descent along the Vitranc ridge past Vratnik to Jasna.
From the Jasna parking, you need to cross some arms of Mali Pišnica. The middle path above the valley is ruined and dangerous in several places, so it has been closed for years. Lower under it runs another path; I climbed to it from the valley on a scrubby ridgelet that requires a bit of breath and caution. The continuation of the path with short ascents and descents leads to scree fields with nice views of the snowy Mojstrovka above the blue-green Pišnica. From there to the hunter's hut is another kilometer and a few tens of meters of ascent.
The path to Ciprnik is initially well traceable, but in the forest a bit higher I lost it a few times and quickly found it again. A bit below 1450 meters, it crosses to the right, then over a ledge secured with a rope tied to a PZS bolt. About 100 meters further, there are attached loose, quite old steel cables as support for a slightly more demanding crossing of the exposed gully. They hold, but I took them really only as support! In the middle of the crossing, there is a vertically driven bolt that spun in my hand. I didn't actually need the last few meters of the cable, but I checked it anyway. And the loose wire simply came off the sawn branch to which its end was stuck. That's how hunter's paths look.
About half a kilometer further, I reached the next gully with a scrubby slope, where I sensed from afar the remains of the damaged middle path. About the crossing there, Spleza, the timeless ace of solitary mountain paths, wrote more than fifteen years ago: "Wide gully we cross transversely... On scrambles... Extremely dangerous for slipping! But the cable, although slack, pulled out at the end." The poorly trodden little path led straight there. I was glad when I spotted thin hunter's steel cables around the corner. Tied to scrubby branches of various toughness, they directed me away from the wide gully, along the wet gully to the left and upward through some scrub into the forest.
The steepness barely eased, but it was still a bit easier in the forest. On easier terrains, hunter's paths are usually less visible (I found that out last time over Kuklarje). But on this path, it's taken care of. In the middle of nowhere, when the path temporarily disappeared again, a somewhat artistically shaped sign for Ciprnik magically appeared: 45 minutes, diagonally left and up. Yes!
The hike to the top was just a formality. The ridge along which the path goes was mostly snowy, and considerable amounts of windpacked snow were visible on the northern slopes as well. Therefore, I walked on the dry, southern side of the ridge, but a little below the summit I couldn't avoid a few short snowy sections of the path. Nothing special, but it broke through a few times, probably as punishment because I left the gaiters in the car.
The views from the top are unique; the grandeur was slightly marred by high cloudiness that took some shine from the surrounding peaks. But the view of these untamed, wild, and hard-to-access ends hardly leaves one indifferent. Especially if this privilege was earned with an excellent journey through the remote corners of Mali Pišnica.
The descent was not too difficult. They are building a new cable car on Vitranc. The path along the spiky ridge toward Vratnik seemed poorly routed and too steep to me, spoiled by the artful zigzags of the hunter's path. Probably there was no other way. A little before the end of the path, two young guys overtook me. Both in shorts. The first shod in leather shoes as worn to work and without a backpack. The second had a backpack, but he was barefoot  .
Some more pictures on Modrini neba.
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