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INTRODUCTION:
Basically I planned my almost traditional autumn tour  , as in all previous years. That's first to Mala Pišnica and then past the hunting hut to the summit. But the first gully was incomparably more eroded than last year, the year before, the year before that...  Even the dwarf pines I used last time were gone... If that gully was the only one, I might have struggled on, I had a short rope and some gear with me, but since several more follow it, which were already a bit annoying last year, I preferred to use common sense. So I turned back and about ten minutes later branched off to the reserve variant. 
CORE:
The morning was fresh and the sky completely clear when I got out of the car in front of Hotel Lek. Both during the drive to the start and while walking towards Pišnica, the question flashed in my mind  , what would that gully be like this year? I gave the answer in the intro. More and more torn up, eroded  The reserve variant was the ridge one, the one I usually descend. Over Mali and Veliki Vratnik. Wonderful path, lower through the forest and higher along and on the ridge, on soft leaves and undergrowth. Right at the bottom, somewhere above Krivi plaz, a bit of care is needed because the trail is harder to follow due to leaves, not much higher it becomes more pronounced and easy to follow all the way to the top. Larches unfortunately haven't got their "patina" yet  , but so many leaves have fallen from other trees that my views could wander towards Razor, Prisank, the ridge from Mojstrovka to Šit and a bit higher also to Jalovec, Ponca ridge, Vevnica... Gorgeous . When I spotted the Dom na Vitrancu, it seemed I heard music . And indeed, as soon as I step out of the forest onto the open, I see the Vitranc cabin is open, and the chairlift is running. Something like that I haven't seen before, I think. Not last year, not the year before, not before, nothing at Vitranc. Everything closed and very rarely some mountaineer to at least greet. And I immediately remember what weather we had last autumn and things become clearer. No time for a break, so I continued and (almost) in a blink stood on the summit. Everything from A to Z, including foreign letters, at the highest level. On the summit I enjoyed, and enjoyed some more, and some more... well, then it was time to go back down In the cabin at Vitranc I had coffee and sunbathed a bit, the sun shone incredibly warm, then descended to Kranjska Gora. Descent I did up the slope of Vitranc, the path eroded in places, harder to follow in places, there's also a wire cable at one spot (above the natural window), lower partly on the ski slope and partly on forest paths.
CONCLUSION:
if it weren't written Ciprnik on maps and guidebooks, I'd call it Coprnik. Not the highest, not the hardest, without via ferrata and on every side at least a bit eroded. And it enchanted and bewitched me, who knows with what, and I happily climb it again and again. In good and less good weather, alone or in company. From any side. It never disappoints me
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