Dom v Lepeni - Lanževica (via Velika Baba)

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 mountain hut Dom dr. Klementa Juga in Lepena.

Path description:
From the mountain hut Dom dr. Klementa Juga in Lepena, we head onto the path in the direction of the mountain hut Dom pri Krnskih jezerih, Gomiščkovo zavetišče on Krn, and Dom na Komni. Already immediately from the parking lot, the path enters the forest, through which it ascends on a wide mule track. On the mule track, we mostly ascend moderately (the steep variant of the ascent in the lower part has not been in use for some time) through the forest, only occasionally opening up some views towards the valley and surrounding mountains. During the ascent, we cross the route of the cargo cableway several times, whose crossing is forbidden during operation. After a good hour and a half of walking, the path flattens and brings us a little further to the upper station of the cargo cableway.
From here onwards, the path leads along the edge of a smaller valley, quickly bringing us to the spot where they measure the height of the snow cover every year in April. A short descent follows, then we arrive at a marked junction, where we leave the wide path leading towards the mountain hut Dom pri Krnskih jezerih and Krnsko jezero, and continue slightly left on the path in the direction of Velika Baba.
From the junction onwards, we continue for a short time without major changes in elevation, and when the path from the mountain hut Dom pri Krnskih jezerih joins from the right, we continue left and begin first gently, then moderately to ascend. When the forest ends a little further on, a nice view opens up on the walls from Kaluder to Velika Baba. For a few minutes, we still ascend relatively gently along the foot of already overgrown screes, then the path turns right and begins to ascend somewhat more steeply, crossing the slopes to the right. During the traversing ascent, which in some places is also exposed to falling rocks, increasingly beautiful views open up on Veliki Šmohor, Krn, Lemež, Debeljak, higher also Kanin, below us we see Dupeljsko jezero and the mountain hut Dom pri Krnskih jezerih... Higher, the path ascends over a smaller scree below Zelena škrbina, then gradually we arrive in the valley between Velika Baba on the left and Velika Montura on the right. After a few minutes of ascent through the mentioned valley, we arrive at a junction, where the marked path to Velika Baba turns left, straight ahead the path to Velika Montura continues, and we can also arrive in the valley Za Lepočami and at Bogatinsko sedlo.
We continue on the marked path in the direction of Velika Baba, first descending slightly, then beginning to ascend on the gradually steeper slopes of Velika Baba. Higher, we reach the eastern ridge of Velika Baba, but at that spot we leave the marked path leading to the summit 10 minutes away and continue right on an unmarked but traceable path, which from the ridge passes onto partly dwarf pine-covered slopes. During the traverse, we pass onto the slopes of Predolina; when we reach the ridge connecting Predolina and Velika Montura, we arrive at a junction of unmarked paths.
We continue left (right Velika Montura and valley Za Lepočami) and continue traversing Predolina. After the traverse, we reach an indistinct ridge, along and beside which we continue with some shorter ascents and descents. When we approach the summit slope of Lanževica, the path starts to fade, and on easier pathless terrain we begin to ascend more steeply towards the summit of Lanževica, which we reach after approximately 20 minutes of further walking.
Starting point - junction near the Dom pri Krnskih jezerih 2:00, junction near the Dom pri Krnskih jezerih 2:00 - ridge of Velika Baba 1:50, ridge of Velika Baba - Lanževica 0:50.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in July 2017 and September 2018.

Trip can be extended to: Velika Baba