Dolina Krma - Cmir

Access to starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Hrušica exit and follow the road towards Kranjska Gora. Just before the village of Dovje, a road branches off to the left from the main road leading to Mojstrano (Vrata, Kot and Krma). Continue following the road towards the village of Radovna and the valleys of Krma and Kot. The fairly steep road then takes us past the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and brings us to a junction where a gravel road branches off to the right into the Kot valley. Continue straight on the road, which begins to descend. Midway through the descent, a road branches off to the right into the Krma valley (straight to Radovna). A little further on, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then brings us to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then brings us to the parking lot before the barrier.
b) Drive to Kranjska Gora, then continue driving towards Jesenice. At Dovje, leave the main road and continue right towards Mojstrano and the valleys of Vrata, Kot and Krma, and at the following junctions follow the signs for Krma. The fairly steep road then takes us past the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and brings us to a junction where a gravel road branches off to the right into the Kot valley. Continue straight on the road, which begins to descend. Midway through the descent, a road branches off to the right into the Krma valley (straight to Radovna). A little further on, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then brings us to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then brings us to the parking lot before the barrier.

Path description:
From the last parking lot in the Krma valley, called Pri lesi, we continue on the poorer road that continues up the valley and soon brings us to a clearing, where we bypass the nearby building on the left side. We continue on the gravel path, which approaches a torrent and crosses it a little further on. On the other side of the torrent, the path enters the forest and first ascends gently, then quite steeply for some time. Higher up, we leave the forest and enter a belt of dwarf pines and shrubs, from the path we have beautiful views of the nearby steep walls of the peaks, which descend more gently on the other side towards Pokljuka.
Higher up, at an altitude of just over 1400 m, the path levels out temporarily and brings us to the beautiful grassy plain of Vrtača.
After the grassy section, the path begins to ascend again along a path that is often quite slippery in this section, leveling out at the plain of Malo polje.
Here the path turns right and forks.
To the left, a path branches off towards Bohinjska vrata and Vodnikov dom on Velem polju, while we continue straight and easily continue along the foot of Vernar to a spring with a trough.
After the trough, the path forks again, but we continue straight on the marked path (left unmarked shortcut to planina Zgornja Krma). There follows some moderate ascent, higher up somewhat steeper, through sparse, partly larch forest. Higher up, the path turns left and levels out, and the aforementioned shortcut joins us from the left.
After the junction of both paths, we quickly reach the shepherd's hut on planina Zgornja Krma, called Prgarca.
From here, the path continues with a moderate ascent towards the west and brings us to the last spring along the path; above the spring, the path forks again.
To the left, the path continues over Kurica, leading to Konjsko sedlo and further to Dom Planika pod Triglavom, while we go right onto the path leading towards Kredarica and Staničev dom.
Just a few steps further, the "old path" to Kredarica branches off to the left from the normal path to Kredarica.
Here are the only signs for Kredarica in this direction along the path, but we continue straight on the easy marked path, which has no signs for Kredarica (September 2025), which brings us a few minutes further to a signed junction where the paths to Kredarica and Staničev dom separate.
The path ahead leads us through partly grassy terrain called Murava, later we ascend transversely through increasingly sparse, mostly larch forest. Higher up, the path gradually levels out and brings us to the lower part of Kravja dolina, where first an unmarked path joins us from the right leading past the hunting hut Zgornja Krma, and a little higher another unmarked path branches off to the right leading towards the central part of Kravja dolina and further towards Veliki Pršivec, the remains of a plane from World War II and Rjavina via Temen, while we continue to follow the rutted marked path, which transitions into increasingly rocky terrain.
When we have already ascended above 2000 meters above sea level, somewhere in the area called Pungrt, we unobtrusively cross the PP trail (Planica - Pokljuka trail), continue briefly along the valley between Rž on the left and Rjavina on the right, then move to the slopes of Rjavina, where we ascend transversely over scree. Below Dovška vrata, where a shortcut to Rjavina leads, the marked path turns left.
We then ascend moderately towards the massif of Rž, where we can observe the natural window, the window in Rž; higher up, the path becomes steeper and a marked but rather rarely visited path from Konjsko sedlo joins us from the left.
We continue right towards Triglav and Staničev dom, along a gradually easier path that brings us to a junction at the beginning of the ridge leading towards Dovška vrata and further to Rjavina.
Here, a marked path to Rjavina also branches off to the right, while we begin to descend gradually towards the more plateau-like terrain around Dom Valentina Staniča pod Triglavom.
Lower down, the path levels out and from the next junction we continue straight towards the nearby mountain hut.
From the hut, we continue towards Begunjski vrh, Visoke Vrbanove špice and Cmir. The fairly easy path brings us after a few minutes of further walking to Begunjski preval, where the path to Vrbanove špice branches off to the right, while we continue straight on a path that soon forks into two parts.
We continue straight (left to Begunjski vrh) along the path that crosses the northeast slopes of Begunjski vrh (snowfields possible in early summer) and brings us to a small saddle behind the mentioned peak. Here we have a beautiful view into the Vrata valley and the mountains surrounding it.
The path then turns right and crosses a well-protected smooth rock slab. Further on, we ascend steeply and the path brings us to a very panoramic ridge, which we follow towards the northeast. The pleasant panoramic path is then stopped by a steep rock step, down which we descend vertically (10 m) along an excellently protected path. The path, which is then somewhat easier, descends for some time longer, then begins to ascend towards Rjavčeve glave. After a few minutes of ascent, we step onto the mentioned summit, from which the path begins to descend along a steep grassy slope (danger of slipping). The path ahead ascends moderately onto a narrow and exposed ridge, from which it descends into the notch below the main summit of Cmir. On the other side, the path turns slightly left and begins to ascend steeply along the summit slope of the mountain. After about 15 minutes of steep ascent, we reach the summit of Cmir, from which we have a very beautiful view.
Krma - Zgornja Krma 2:30, Zgornja Krma - Staničev dom 2:45, Staničev dom - Cmir 2:00.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Malo polje (1585m), Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m), Dom Valentina Staniča (2332m), Begunjska vratca (2342m), Rjavčeve glave (2360m)