Za Akom-Rutarski vršič-Vrtašlo sleme-Vrata PP VI
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| JusAvgustin14. 05. 2011 14:25:56 |
This morning I just drove to GM, determined to properly finish PP V http://www.hribi.net/trenutnerazmere.asp?slo=1&gorovjeid=1&id=3007, since I ran out of time back then. I climbed towards the bivouac below Špik, from there along the lower (PP!) passage to bivouac III Za Akom. Arguing which cirque is prettier doesn't even come into question here... When you see them from PP they literally captivate you! At B3 I sat a bit, skimmed the logbook and headed on towards the left gully. The sky already showed there'd be showers today... Still, I decided to just "check out" beyond the edge. Soon I turned left into the forest and wow... Balvan PP. There I realized that with "just checking" nothing would happen again today (this way I "accidentally"  crossed from the cirque below Rigljica to Bivouac below Špik  PP5. The trail you must not! lose first steeply drops through snow-broken trees to a small clearing, then winds in gentle (nicest trail I've walked this year  ) zigzags through the forest to a small saddle named Gumno. From there PP drops steeply towards the valley of Beli potok... Well, I tell myself "just go check down". Soon I'm at the passage, but turn back due to rain, lack of gear and pre-snow... Another long one, another martyr's face, which was almost all the time in clouds this time. From the passage to Vrata I'd definitely need almost 6 or more hours... Next time, maybe with someone. On PP you rest your soul (body a bit less). Though I got to the car completely scratched and wet and filthy! from feet to head I was immensely happy!
Today I walked from Pod Srca to the start of the "crossing" of Beli potok. If you have time, definitely go to Rutarski vršič, you won't regret it!
Juš
P.S. at the car I met a hiker asking for Kurji vrh, hope he made it...
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| JusAvgustin25. 06. 2011 23:05:10 |
A promise makes a debt... so this morning I set off to GM, after a good half hour I'm already at Za Akom, from there another good 20min to RV. This time I sign the book. From the top a short descent back to Gumno from there a solid 200m up to the peak. Then struggle with brush and fallen scree to the entrance to the "green hell". There to my endless sorrow I discover that PP6 is almost entirely cut out, a real nice traceable path!  well, it gets lost once in between (thank god). I immediately inform the "mentor" who is extremely surprised. Yeah, someone really had too much time and cut passages through ZP and the third brush plantation. Anyway, I'm PP-ing in dear peace, completely alone under the S wall of KŠ, when it happens. At the most inconvenient spot I slip and injure my knee. In the heart of BP, about half an hour from the KŠ wall. I calm down, five minutes, sip of water and continue... The pain was quite bad but I continued anyway because I knew there was civilization at Slemen 2077m and someone who would help me. After a good half hour I'm on the extremely crumbly! ridge between the peak above Mužici and VS. When the ridge becomes overgrown with brush I breathe a sigh of relief, just a few meters separate me from Slemen. I'm up alone, well those couple of minutes. Then 18 participants of the PD IMP hike arrive with whom I get into conversation, extremely nice people, they immediately offer help, we descend together to Vrata (not via PP). At this point I'd like to thank from the heart every participant of PD IMP for the company, chat and help with walking down to the valley, especially greeting Neža and her two brothers and kobro1 who took such good care of the little deer and his safe return to the valley. TM writes: star of the day is undoubtedly KŠ, I add that the star of the day was definitely PIPI today, everyone photographed him, obviously he's famous... Otherwise the injury is just a blow to the bone, nothing serious. Pain is weakness of the mind anyway...
Nice PP greetings, Juš
P.S. PP6 is among the most remote stages of the entire PP, BP valley is... pictures tell more tomorrow. All troubles are concentrated on the two-hour section when crossing from BP to Vrata, when you're on the ridge (brush) the troubles end, no rope needed, but nerves are needed for climbing fallen scree and fighting brush.
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| JusAvgustin26. 06. 2011 11:33:21 |
PP6 is more long and strenuous than technically demanding, but requires a trained pathless step, sense of orientation, no fear of exposure and fallen ridges. All "troubles" start down before the first brush plantation and don't stop until the top of Vrtaški slemen at 2077 m.a.s.l. Climbing up to grade II, attention! on the ridge! One incomprehensible romance, the wilderness of the Doline belega potoka and the north face of KŠ. As promised-pictures.
Pipi was totally excited, a real little star of the day!
Juš&Pipi for you from PP6
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| JusAvgustin25. 07. 2013 12:47:16 |
Everyone who rushed into it got properly burned... Where was the main problem?
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| SilvestrO25. 07. 2013 13:14:04 |
The main problem is in picture 6...
I'll find it, next time..., thanks Juš.
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| JusAvgustin11. 10. 2015 05:57:24 |
Yesterday with Domno on a morning tour from Krnica Za Akom to Gumno, descent to the first logbook on the stage above Beli potok. From there through Zeleni pekel to Vrtaško sleme, we pushed through Votlo sleme to Skočnike and headed via Zgrešeni skočniki to the connecting path past Glava back to the start. No rain, but no views either. In wet and fog, I warmly advise beginners against this PP stage, as it is really a slide. From the car to Slemen, we met no one.
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| n3jc9. 10. 2020 09:59:45 |
I have some stages behind me already, so I will report back. Yesterday I walked the PP between Za Akom and Slemen. I found the rocky barrier with three PP markers and a cairn, the passage over scree ahead too, and after a while also the cairn on the rocky promontory.
Somewhere after that, I let myself be lured by a disappearing trail steeply upwards in the dwarf pine plantation. Above, I saw two rocky heads at both ends of the slope and found a candidate for the "white" gully, and forged a possible explanation of where I was, although not all facts matched. Higher up, under the wall of Kukova Špica, I finally discarded that explanation. I suspect that I turned upwards in the dwarf pines a bit before the rocky head, which according to the Northern approaches should be bypassed from below.
Then I "bypassed" the mentioned rocky head and climbed over it from above, which proved to be extremely time-consuming due to searching for passages and quite demanding terrain. Once I had the head behind me, more elegant passages began, as well as here and there a ledge and finally snow. Then to the ridge, there were no special features. There, views awaited me!
The original plan was return via Smrajka. But since I arrived at Slemen only in the evening, I turned on the light and went along the marked path to Mojstrana. Back to civilization after 13 hours (all the searching, bushwhacking through dwarf pines, and probably bypassing the head too high delayed the tour).
Magnificent adventure! To novices - including myself - I would recommend tackling the tour when the day is still longer.
Thanks to the local resident who picked me up hitchhiking!
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| JusAvgustin9. 10. 2020 18:04:02 |
Bravo for the tour. Bold to tackle the longest stage on a short day and in such conditions. Maybe too bold. This area is among the most remote on the entire traverse and the hairiest...
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| janezs739. 06. 2024 19:33:30 |
Today unsuccessful first attempt on PP VI. The weather made the worst possible combination - yesterday's rain and today's 100% humidity took care of wetness and slipperiness where you least want it... To the log "booklet" for the crossing it went very quickly, though I was already soaked by then. Then the first serious passage and after 4 tries I preferred to turn back, because it really was too slippery...
Juš and other experts - was I even at the right place pushing? (According to Mihelič there where II should be, though I myself would have looked higher earlier).
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| n3jc9. 06. 2024 20:56:03 |
If your picture shows the rise at the far right side of the picture to the trail under the bushes in the upper third of the picture then maybe legitimate, but in general it looks suspicious to me. Memory has already erased some details, but in 2020 I found passages that were all easier than this, even though after entering "zeleni pekel" I veered strongly off the official line.
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| janezs739. 06. 2024 21:41:00 |
This is a view of the above shown detail from the scree at the box (passage) - in the middle of the picture by height and in the right quarter of the picture.
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| SilvestrO9. 06. 2024 22:15:25 |
As I remember, nowhere here is particularly difficult, I'd say you weren't right. The passage, based on the last picture, is far right or not visible on the picture.
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| n3jc9. 06. 2024 23:14:22 |
Mihelič states that for the passage into zeleni pekel protection is needed and he drew the passage exactly there across where janezs73 shows.
But I found it elsewhere roughly as SilvestrO wrote and that passage was easier than the one on janez's picture. The deviation in location and difficulty of the passage compared to Mihelič's description puzzled me a bit on the spot back then ...
But back then yet another thing puzzled me, namely that according to the description I should find at least one more PP marker on the section between logbook and passage into zeleni pekel (in some gully). I found at least two cairns, including at the passage into pekel, but no marks on that section. That started gnawing at me now after almost four years and it looks like I need to check it again.
Now it's finally clear to me that the paths in the guidebook aren't drawn wrong (now looking at my photo of the log sheet and seeing that Den Cedilnik was with Mihelič on the tour and now finding it harder to believe that he would have made a mistake in the drawing). So they actually went there across ...
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| janezs7310. 06. 2024 08:08:13 |
This inconsistency (difficulty and location) puzzled me too. The strangest thing to me is why such masters would secure it if it was only a two.
And I also didn't find the marking for the first "plantation", but it seemed to me that I saw wooden remains of a fortified path, a little higher from the point where I started descending from the first "plantation" towards the wall in question.
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| SilvestrO10. 06. 2024 16:59:51 |
The path drawings are approximate and one shouldn't rely on them.
Just look at the drawn path of Gamsove riže from Kumljah to Lope, if you've been there, does it really run as drawn?
It's like that on many sections, it never puzzled me
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| janezs7310. 06. 2024 22:27:56 |
SilvestrO, unfortunately I'm professionally deformed here - if I see a line that changes direction somewhere on the image, it immediately associates with a track for me. I admit this approach was irrational. Otherwise, according to the descriptions that track is quite accurate on the image.
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| JusAvgustin12. 06. 2024 08:31:34 |
Vodeb describes it so richly...
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| janezs7316. 06. 2024 09:46:41 |
Here, yesterday's (second) attempt was successful.
Above Beli potok this time (with hints from experts of course) I hit almost all landmarks. Exception is the old red dot at the crossing of the first gully from the first plantation (I searched everything around there - it probably really faded).
The passages are really nice, even though views in the lower kilometer are mostly limited to 1m .
Because I was already a bit too excited at the top of the brown gully under the ridge and wanted to see where exactly I pushed 32 years ago from Sleme to Vrh nad Mužiči, I reached the ridge before the clock face and of course had to pay for my audacity with descents back down to the grass.
Every time again I can't marvel enough at this rubble. I don't get what holds this ridge together 
Otherwise really masterfully routed passages.
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