So as not to stuff Kuklarje under the Rigelj topic again, let the ascent over them and the crossing of the west slope of Velika Planina find its place in the recently opened topic.
Kuklarji, Rigelj, Škorenca, Vrtalše, Lopata, Gamsove streže, Pasje pečine - names probably unknown to most. To me before Sunday just some notes on the map, which revealed themselves as spots full of beauty, but also traps.
The path through Dolski Graben is as always long and winding. At the big boulder with the blue paw on the back side I turn and climb amid chamois young to Kobilna Valley over Kuklarje (snow patches here and there). At Planina I slip past some huts and already descend the path over Rigelj, but immediately below it, that is, at the bend where the path continues to the right, with a larger mark on the wall, I leave it and head straight ahead. According to the interrupted dashed line on one of the maps, I should follow the remnants of the trail. Actually, the pathlet is visible for a short time, then I spot it a little below me, after a while I find myself under it - in short, the further you go, the more invisible it is. The best is to strain the eyes, follow the feeling and carefully continue in the steep world of grass and numerous ravines that are currently full of compacted avalanche debris. Somewhere in the middle of the crossing it seemed to me that only a thought of the trail remained and every little path seemed good enough that I didn't decide to turn back. When somewhere in the Lopata area I really didn't know where it would be best, and I became skeptical if the thinly leaf- or grass-covered avalanche paths, in which the concrete-hard snow and ice firmly persist, will ever end, I find the first and only nice little ravine. I descend, head through the next one to the forest and slightly upward until I spot the trail (probably goes toward Konjska dolina or the former hunting hut Sivnik). On it in a few minutes I reach the marked path and descend over Pasje pečine.