Dolina Krma - Rž

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 left from the main road leading to Mojstrana (Vrata, Kot and Krma). Continue following the road towards the village of Radovna and the Krma and Kot valleys. The relatively steep road then passes the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and leads to a junction where a gravel road branches right into the Kot valley. Continue straight ahead on the road, which begins to descend. Midway down the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches right (straight ahead to Radovna). A short way further, we reach the next junction, where we turn right towards Krma. The gravel road then leads to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then brings us to the parking area before the barrier.
b) Drive to Kranjska Gora, then continue towards Jesenice. At Dovje, leave the main road and proceed right towards Mojstrana and the Vrata, Kot and Krma valleys, following the signs for Krma at subsequent junctions. The relatively steep road then passes the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and leads to a junction where a gravel road branches right into the Kot valley. Continue straight ahead on the road, which begins to descend. Midway down the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches right (straight ahead to Radovna). A short way further, we reach the next junction, where we turn right towards Krma. The gravel road then leads to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then brings us to the parking area 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 that 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 a while. Higher up, we leave the forest for a belt of dwarf pines and shrubs, and from the path we have nice views of the nearby steep walls of the peaks, which descend more gently towards Pokljuka on the other side.
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 Malo polje plain.
Here the path turns right and forks.
To the left, a path branches towards Bohinjska vrata and Vodnikov dom na Velem polju, while we continue straight ahead and easily proceed along the foot of Vernar to a spring with a trough.
After the trough, the path forks again, and we continue straight on the marked path (left is an unmarked shortcut to planina Zgornja Krma). This is followed by a moderate ascent, steeper higher up, through sparse, partly larch forest. Higher up, the path turns left and levels out, joined from the left by the aforementioned shortcut.
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 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 left from the usual 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), bringing us a few minutes later to a signed junction where the paths to Kredarica and Staničev dom separate.
The path ahead leads us through the partly grassy area called Murava, later ascending 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 from the right leading past the hunting hut Zgornja Krma, and a bit higher another unmarked path branches right leading to the central part of Kravja dolina and further to Veliki Pršivec, the remains of a WWII plane, and Rjavina via Temno; we continue to follow the well-trodden marked path, which enters increasingly rocky terrain.
Once we ascend above 2000 m, in the area called Pungrt, we unobtrusively cross path PP (Planica - Pokljuka trail), continue briefly down the valley between Rž on the left and Rjavina on the right, then move to the slopes of Rjavina, ascending transversely over scree. Below Dovška vrata, where a shortcut to Rjavina leads, the marked path turns left.
We then ascend moderately towards the Rž massif, where we can observe the natural window, okno v Rži; higher up the path becomes steeper, and from the left joins a marked but rarely visited path from Konjsko sedlo.
We continue right towards Triglav and Staničev dom, along a gradually easier path that brings us to a junction at the start of the ridge leading towards Dovška vrata and further to Rjavina.
Here, a marked path to Rjavina also branches 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.
We continue towards Kredarica along a path that ascends gently below the Rž screes, then transversely up over the mentioned screes. In the upper part of the screes, we will notice a poorly trodden path (often barely visible due to snow avalanches) that leaves the marked path to Kredarica. The path, branching left from the marked path, brings us after a short steep ascent over the scree and higher a small gully to the Rž ridge. Here we continue left and follow the "path" along and occasionally beside the ridge to the summit of Rž.
In the upper part, cairns help find the way, while in the lower part they are often toppled by avalanches.
Krma - Zgornja Krma 2:30, Zgornja Krma - Staničev dom 2:45, Staničev dom - Rž 45 minutes.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Malo polje (1585m), Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m), Dom Valentina Staniča (2332m)