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jbs10. 04. 2019 08:41:41
Nice. One comment. We too last year when doing loop over Potoška planina surprised at "dead end" end of forest road. Spent quite some time searching path around. Then back few hundred m and found marked but hidden turnoff from forest road down. Last year still many fallen trees on path from there.
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Majdag10. 04. 2019 11:05:05
Thanks jbs, checked map and my GPS track at home. I roughly guess where it drops to right path. Thanks again, last time would've gone back but no time.nasmeh
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gojzarka21. 06. 2019 17:17:59
Hi! Starting point currently hard to find due to road works, drove too far first. Water intake sign scratched lying by road, no signs. With attention notice red sign by road. Small parking just before spring.
Path ahead mostly visible, middle part churned by logging (after ~10min walk). Follow "main path" leads soon to hiking trail continuation.
Wonderful outing, recommend nasmeh
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ljubitelj gora9. 08. 2019 21:08:42
Didn't know where, just drove somewhere....late afternoon from Valvazor hut to Vajnež, thought altitude would bring cooler but arrived summit almost soaked. Dried quick descending Vajnež to Potoški Stol. Back to Valvazor hut, road solid but bad section 10min before. Julian Alps in fog plus 3km jam to Jesenice, so went up.
Above the hut I turned left and after about 20 min reached the water intake with these signposts.1
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above the marked path along the ridge.10
Running out of water, heading down.11
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j.1. 01. 2020 20:14:35
Yesterday (Tuesday, 31.12.2019) from Urbas. The road is nicely drivable, the path through the forest is a bit improvised in one place due to fallen trees, otherwise not problematic. After about half an hour of walking snow starts, at Betonska bajta on Belščica over 10 cm, partly blown off, partly drifted.

It seemed to me a strong wind was blowing on the ridge, so towards Vajnež I traversed quite lower, somehow along the edge of the scree. Hard sections (crampons) alternated with deeper drifts up to mid-calf. At the top it almost completely stopped blowing, views were wonderful. Noticed some people on Stol.

Returned along the ridge through a cirque and on over Mali vrh, and at Kamnitnik descended straight down to Hrašenska planina, from there to planina Stamare and back to start.

Serious snow starts above Betonska bajta. If repeating the ascent in these conditions, from the bajta would go straight up hard snow to the saddle east of Mali vrh and then along the ridge to Vajnež. Would save almost an hour of trailbreaking. There were tracks on the ridge anyway. Like the predecessors once or twice, it also gave way under me once over the knee when I stepped on the inner edge of the cornice just a few cm from the rocky ridge.


At Urbas it starts like this...1
Bivouac at Belščica (Concrete shack).2
Shepherd's hut on Belska planina (Shepherd Marko), Kepa in the background.3
Vajnež and both Stola.4
Kozjak - Ovčji vrh.5
Stol with Janežev žleb on the left and Široka riža on the right.6
Summit of Vajnež.7
It's also nice to fly above the Karavanke.8
View back from the end of the ridge near Kamnitnik.9
Triglav as if on the palm of the hand. Kot and the valley Za Cmirom are clearly visible, as well as Rjavina, Luknja peč, Dimniki between Vrbanove špice, Cmir behind and Stenar further right.10
View from the ridge towards the west.11
Lake Bled and the HE Moste lake.12
Snow conditions near Kamnitnik.13
Sun, sun...14
Hrašenska planina.15
Planina Stamare, the hunters had a meeting in the upper hut.16
Sled (Google Earth). Blue marks what I think is a more suitable ascent route for those conditions.17
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Spelcarocket29. 09. 2020 18:43:49
Today, on the penultimate September day to the mountains for winter idyll. Gorgeous warm sun and snowshoe prints in the snow. WONDERFUL nasmeh
Among the first on this snowy 'little path'1
sun :)2
mighty summit3
no words4
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Majdag15. 11. 2020 17:57:30

To Vajnež from Konjska peč. The hunting path is better trodden than my last visit. Start is still tricky, need to watch for the mark on the tree. Planina Seča was in the sun, also half the scree. The other half over Rida is frozen, had microspikes. Roads over Savske jame and towards Jav. Rovt both have good and bad parts. They're forest roads after all. Vajnež is the highest in our municipality, nice two-thousander.nasmeh

https://jelenkamenmajdag.blogspot.com/2020/11/vajnez-najvisji-v-jeseniski-obcini.html
- Along the hunting path from Konjska peč1
- Nicely renovated signpost along the path2
- Acquaintance who ran from Kor. Bela over Stamare and Ride and back to Kor. Bela3
- Vajnež - 2104 m counts in elevation4
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misace21. 04. 2021 06:54:20
Vajnež yesterday. Had sun too. And snow, and gusts of wind mežikanje Pretty good trailbreaking to the bivouac. Snow won't run out yet mežikanje
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j.29. 11. 2023 22:17:25
Today (Wednesday, 29.11.) from Urbas. Weather forecast clear, but the black cloud over Belščica insisted otherwise. Just before Urbas there's a somewhat dubious warning sign due to terrain sliding. When I spotted the measuring devices for tracking ground movement, I prudently avoided the area a bit. Path to Betonska bajta rises splendidly and quickly, at end of forest snow gradually starts. A bit more (half shoe height) above bajta, from there to summit the same. Grass frozen, but boots gripped well.

Path in fog not very traceable. Glad for well-chosen marking points on rocks just peeking from snow. Towards summit wind started (some SW), fog thickened more. I was cold. Behind the cross on top suddenly a view window opened for a few seconds, showing Ovčji vrh (Kozjek) fully. Naively waited another 15 min for repeat (or at least short encore velik nasmeh), then shivering and stiff headed back. Fog persisted, every 20m or so found my own footprint in frozen grass. Can't remember when snow prints made me so happy. Missed the signpost in the valley below Vajnež by 30m, spotted it when turning around by chance.

Lower down easier. Past hut Ovčar Marko and Hrašenska planina down to Stamare then road to Urbas. All without issues. Just cloudiness in mountains, even in Julijci persisted despite great forecast. Next time.

Had gaiters, came in handy for cold and when twice or thrice punched to knees in some drift. No crampons needed.
Closed to all traffic, but you can move at your own risk.1
Concrete shelter.2
I looked inside, turned around and closed the gate behind me.3
Across one of the ravines.4
I met two roe deer.5
When you don't know where to go anymore, well-placed markers help.6
Winter idyll.7
To the top there are 150 meters of elevation. In ten minutes? 900 meters per hour?8
Summit of Vajnež.9
A window with Ovčji vrh opened for a moment.10
Where now?11
Koč a Ovčar Marko.12
View back: It looked like it would clear up, but it didn't.13
Hrašenska planina.14
Planina Stamare.15
I wasn't the only one under the clouds.16
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Trobec13. 04. 2024 22:09:11
On vacation day heading along the ridge from Vajnež to Struška. If it's the border ridge, supposedly a path runs up there already. If nothing else... from times when border guards painted borders velik nasmeh

On most of the ridge there is a path, for 100% confirmation of every meter of border ridge... will need another visit. When snow fully melts. This time at one point... the most important thing was "victory over ego". zadrega

https://trobec.blogspot.com/2024/04/vajnez-struska-1142024.html
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zokipoki14. 04. 2024 07:40:09
Congrats on this loop! Only ego can beat ego! No ego, no us! nasmeh
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Kafetarca14. 04. 2024 07:50:26
What's that behind the waterfall?
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Trobec14. 04. 2024 20:26:12
Zoran, true. nasmeh

I think it doesn't even have a name. But it's on Javornik stream or one of its tributaries. Not even the stream is marked on opentopo. From "Konjska peč" sign approx. azimuth 270 along descent line mežikanje
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matej10. 05. 2024 08:36:53
Super. I'm also planning the path in opposite direction from Struška to Vajnež. On pics 13 and 14 are there fixed cables? What's that section like? Supposedly some plane wreck remains on the path, did you notice them? I wish you a nice hiking weekend
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Trobec10. 05. 2024 08:57:51
Yeah, there are a couple of fixed ropes there. Or, at least one. I don't know exactly how many, because I skipped most of that section due to annoying snow patches.
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ben10. 05. 2024 10:03:14
That part of the path you're talking about is Skalaška pot and it's barely equipped with a couple of steel cables and on the most exposed part also with pegs. But I didn't notice the plane.
https://www.hribi.net/izlet/dom_trilobit_vajnez_po_skalaski_poti_in_cez_mali_vrh/11/376/2318
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Trobec23. 05. 2024 11:36:23
Second time's the charm velik nasmeh

This time the planned traverse worked. Worth trying for fans of pathless terrain and unmarked ZZ routes. But not really a highlight in climbing beauty cool The rock is quite shattered. And it's a pretty short section. And at the protections you have to be a bit careful.

p.s. didn't see the plane nasmeh

https://trobec.blogspot.com/2024/05/precenje-vajnez-struska-drugic-1952024.html
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DVas23. 05. 2024 13:30:53
That path I just couldn't find last time, and where the ropes are I searched for quite a while. Probably hard-to-spot entry. Then I went on the marked one. As reward met a marmot that wasn't scared at all.
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Trobec23. 05. 2024 14:09:04
On one part (from Vajnež direction) shortly after the first rope, a shorter section is harder to follow, as a scree bush has grown right on the path.
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zokipoki24. 05. 2024 08:19:06
Super tour Trobec! And the bee on pic 29...velik nasmeh
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