| djimuzl26. 09. 2024 10:01:17 |
Ruševa glava was on my "list" ever since I spotted the access description to it in the online climbing guide to the Primorske Julijce, but when Turbo mentioned it a few years ago along with Rozka's description of visiting Planinica, I was just waiting for a suitable opportunity. Like Planinica, Ruševa glava is also located above Koritnica and below Loška stena, connecting with it at Sedlo, which separates it from the slopes of Votlega vrha. Its summit also offers nice views of the magnificent wall above it, and access to both is possible via hunting trails.
I set out for it on the last summer Saturday, parked in Log pod Mangartom. First I crossed Predilica on the footbridge, then Koritnica, crossed the fenced pasture and behind the fence found the cart track, which I followed through the forest to its end next to one of the (dry) beds of Kaludrica. On the other side of the streambed I found a path and headed into the steep slope 
Two forest paths lead to Ruševa glava – the "upper" (northern) one, which roughly sticks to the ridge part of this hill, and the "lower" (southern) one, which initially runs along the slopes parallel to the gullies of several streams (which later join into Kaludrica), crosses some of them too, until higher up it distances itself from them and later heads north. Roughly a hundred elevation meters below the head's summit the trails merge, due to their common lower start we can say it's a circular path. Since they are hunting paths, they are marked in that style too, their traceability is, even in combination with using the PZS map, left to the hiker, as the trail occasionally disappears; most reliably follow the saw marks (or other forestry-logging tools ), both in the forest and among the dwarf pines.
I first followed the "lower" path, somewhere at 1200 meters crossed the slope to the "upper" path, which seems more traceable to me than the previously mentioned one. The trail higher up winds out of the forest among the dwarf pines and then drops back into it, but the summit isn't far anymore. When I realized I had reached the junction with the lower path, I had 15 minutes left to the summit. The summit is spacious and overgrown with dwarf pines, so you have to walk a bit further on the circular path on it for the desired views in different directions.
I began the return with descent on the lower path and soon realized the path switch on ascent was an excellent choice, since there's no real trail at the start of the upper part in places (anymore) – descended through churned streambeds, steep gullies… – and the right direction is harder to find… Although descent on rugged, crumbly and similarly nasty terrain is more demanding, orientation downhill is still somehow easier than it would be on ascent, the map is definitely helpful too. I really sighed in relief when lower in the forest I spotted one of the hunting markers… Lower down I went to one of Kaludrica's waterfalls along the path.
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