Starting point: Dom v Lepeni (700 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.3037°N 13.6814°E 
Time of walking: 5 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 1544 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1575 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
Between Trenta and Bovec, at the village of Soča, a road to Lepena branches off. We follow this fully asphalted road to the parking lot at the Dom v Lepeni mountain hut.
Path description:
From the Dr. Klement Jug Hut in Lepena we continue on a wide marked path in the direction of the Krn Lakes. After a few minutes of walking, the wide and not too steep path splits into two parts. The left one, which is somewhat steeper, is the usual one; the right, gentler and somewhat longer, is suitable for small children and the elderly. Both paths mostly ascend through the forest to the upper station of the cableway and cross each other several times along the way. From the upper station of the cargo cableway we continue on the same path, which gently ascends along the wide transport road that quickly brings us to the snow height measurement (every year in April). From here the road starts to descend and takes us past the turn-off for Velika Baba to the next junction, where we leave the road and continue left downhill on the footpath that brings us to the Dom pri Krnskih jezerih hut in a few minutes (if we continue on the road, we bypass the mountain hut).
From the hut we continue straight in the direction of Krn and Krn Lake on a gentle path to which soon joins the path that bypasses the mountain hut. We continue past the shepherd's hut, behind which we reach the next junction, where we again continue in the direction of Krn (left Bogatin, Mali Šmohor and Dom na Komni).
The gentle path then brings us after a further few minutes to the pearl of the Krn ridge. In front of us we see Krn Lake and inviting meadows alongside it for resting. The marked path then leads us along the left side of the lake at the foot of the scree of Mali Šmohor. On the other side of the lake the path turns slightly left and then ascends a somewhat steeper slope, where somewhat higher an unmarked (upper) path joins, which traverses the screes above Krn Lake in a rising traverse (this path is somewhat shorter but exposed to falling rocks). The path then turns somewhat right and brings us to extensive torrent debris cones that end at Planina na Polju.
With wonderful views of the surrounding peaks we cross the grassy Planina na Polju (on the right side, somewhat off the marked path, we will notice a hunting hut) and behind it we begin to ascend a small valley. The path then ascends somewhat more steeply and soon brings us to a partly marked junction. The marked path leading towards Krnska škrbina turns right here (straight ahead unmarked path towards Prag saddle (2068 m)) and begins to ascend more steeply. The path then moves onto steep slopes across which we ascend in a traverse to Krnska škrbina (on this section we may encounter snow patches in early summer).
From the škrbina we continue right (sharply left Prag, left Batognica and straight ahead Planina Kuhinja) on the path that begins to ascend the grassy slope of the mountain. We then follow this increasingly scenic path to the panoramic summit, which we reach after about 30 minutes of walking from Krnska škrbina.
From the summit we can descend to Gomiščkovo zavetišče in 5 minutes.
Lepena - Dom pri Krnskih jezerih 2:00, Dom pri Krnskih jezerih - Krn 3:00.
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