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Mountain ranges / Julian Alps / Kumlehova glava / 2nd hairpin turn of Vršič road - Kumlehova glava (Za Kumlehom)

2nd hairpin turn of Vršič road - Kumlehova glava (Za Kumlehom)

Starting point: 2nd hairpin turn of Vršič road (930 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4612°N 13.78°E 
Path name: Za Kumlehom
Time of walking: 2 h 45 min
Difficulty: difficult unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 858 m
Altitude difference (by path): 860 m
Map: Kranjska Gora 1:30.000
Views: 6,708
Trip rating: 1 votes
Number of pictures: 29
Access to starting point:
From Kranjska Gora, we drive towards the mountain pass Vršič. Immediately after the 2nd hairpin turn of Vršič road or road Ruska cesta we will on the left side notice a large parking lot, where we park.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we at first carefully cross the road, and then we go on narrower at first still asphalted road. Already after few steps of walking the asphalt ends, and the road passes into the forest, where then for quite some time continues. A very bad road which crosses few torrents, after good 15 minutes of ascent ends on a smaller clearing (turning point).
From here we continue straight on a wide cart track which goes into the forest. Cart track on which we are then ascending has quite a few crossings, but if we carefully follow the cairns, we will soon come to a bigger torrent, where for a short time vanishes. We continue the ascent on gravel terrain of a torrent, and then we will soon notice a cart track which continues left in the forest.
Cart track then leads us through the initial part of indistinct valley Za Kumlehom, and we follow it to the spot, where it turns quite to the left. At this spot, we notice a smaller cairn, by which we notice a relatively steep footpath on which we are then ascending. After a short ascent, the path returns on a cart track which after few 10 strides of additional walking, we finally leave.
On the right side of the cart track we will notice at first a poorly visible footpath which is ascending for some time parallel with a cart track, and then starts ascending in numerous zig-zags on a moderately steep slope. The path ahead leads us past a bigger boulder, after which the forest becomes a little thinner. And soon the path returns into a dense forest, where crosses slopes towards the left. During the crossing we stride across two a little clumsy passable gully.
The path ahead starts ascending steeper through the forest and then turns a little towards the right. The steepness then decreases and the path after few minutes of additional walking brings us on the saddle between Visoki Mavrinc on the left and Kumlehova glava on the right.
We continue right (left Visoki Mavrinc 10 minutes, straight downwards mountain hut Koča na Gozdu) on the path which continues on the southeastern ridge of Kumlehova glava. The path which ahead for some time still runs through the forest, soon avoids the ridge a little to the right, where it crosses a short and slightly exposed ledge. The path then returns on the ridge, where it starts ascending steeper and steeper on more panoramic slope.
Higher the ridge narrows and the path brings us to an exposed passage, where we cross the upper part of precipitous gully (in wet great risk of slipping). After the gully, the path steeply ascends on a slope, which is vegetated with dwarf pines. After approximately 15 minutes of a steep ascent through dwarf pines, the path brings us on the main ridge, where it turns to the right. Next follows only few 10 strides of the ascent on panoramic and partly precipitous ridge of Kumlehova glava.
In the lower part because of largeer number of crossings the orientation is a little harder.
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