Koča pri Savici - Tolminski Kuk (direct way)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, we take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. We continue driving towards Bohinjsko jezero (Ribčev laz), where we arrive at an intersection, where we continue straight along the left (southern) side of the lake in the direction of Ukanc and slapa Savice. We then follow this increasingly narrow road to the large parking lot at koči Savica. The parking lot is payable.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the wide footpath in the direction of Slap Savica and Dom na Komni (right path over Komarča). After a short gentle ascent, the path brings us to a marked crossroads, where to the right branches off the tourist path to Slap Savica, but we continue slightly left or straight on the wide footpath in the direction of Komna. The path then ascends for a short time along Savica, then brings us to the first of the marked 48 switchbacks. After an hour and a half of moderate ascent through the forest, the path brings us to the aforementioned 48th switchback, from which a beautiful view of Bohinjsko jezero opens up. Here the path turns slightly to the right and enters the valley called Pekel, where it ascends gently for some time, then turns right and ascends somewhat steeper again. After a few dozen steps, the path turns left again and then ascends parallel to the valley. The gentle to moderately steep path gradually enters a sparser forest, from which we soon see Dom na Komni. The path then leads us past a small interesting cave, higher up it brings us to a crossroads, where to the right branches off the path to Črno jezero, but we continue left and continue on the wide path. Follows some transverse ascent, at the natural abyss, which is fenced for safety, the path turns right, then ascends to the next crossroads, where the path from Črno jezero joins us.
A little further, the path splits once more, but we choose the left path in the direction of Dom na Komni, or we can also take the somewhat shorter path that continues straight and bypasses Dom na Komni (right Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih).
Follows the ascent past bajta Pri Hubertu and in a few minutes we reach Dom na Komni.
From Dom na Komni we go past a small chapel, then go left in the direction of Planina Govnjač, Vogel and Mahavšček (right Koča pod Bogatinom, Bogatinsko sedlo and Krn) on the path that soon after the mountain hut begins to descend more steeply and after about five minutes of further walking brings us to a marked crossroads, where we continue right in the direction of Planina Govnjač (slightly left Vogel and Škrbina).
The path ahead follows an old military mule track and first ascends slightly, then gradually descends. Follows a few more minutes of walking among dwarf pines and we arrive at Planina Govnjač, where there are some ruins and an information board.
From the information board, we continue on a poorly visible path in the direction of Mahavšček (left Vogel, right Planina na Kraju), which after a few steps brings us to numerous ruins (rear of the Krn battlefield during the First World War). On the other side of the mentioned ruins, we come to the next signpost, where we have two options for continuation.
We continue straight in the direction of "Mahavšček - shortcut" (slightly right Mahavšček, on the map TNP 1:50.000 PZS, the "shortcut" is marked as marked) on an initially poorly visible path that soon becomes clearer and then begins to ascend more steeply under steep cliffs. The path, which in transverse ascent crosses several smaller screes, higher up flattens and from the right the gentle path joins us.
We continue the ascent again on the old military mule track, which a little higher brings us to a pleasant and relatively large grassy plain. In the upper part of the plain, the path turns right and begins to ascend moderately through a small valley. Just a few steps further, the small valley splits into two parts (here we notice a cairn that marks the beginning of the unmarked trail to Tolminski Kuk), the marked path continues along the edge of the right valley.
Here we leave the marked path that leads to Mahavšček and continue left on the unmarked trail. We continue on a slightly ascending and in places quite overgrown path, which a little higher brings us under the northern foot of Tolminski Kuk. Here the path turns slightly right and in a moderate ascent climbs to sedlo Planja, where we return to the marked path.
We continue left towards Tolminski Kuk (right Mahavšček and Bogatin and the marked path to Planina na Kraju), on the path that begins to ascend steeply on the crumbly northwest slope of Tolminski Kuk, where due to the considerable steepness there is also a great danger of falling rocks. The very steep and increasingly panoramic path brings us to Tolminski Kuk, the highest peak in the ridge of the Bohinjsko - Tolminske gore, in a little more than 35 minutes from sedlo Planja.

Starting point - branch to Črno jezero 2:15, branch to Črno jezero - Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar 0:10, Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar - Dom na Komni 0:05, Dom na Komni - crossroads under Izpica 0:05, crossroads under Izpica - Planina Govnjač 0:25, Planina Govnjač - branch for Tolminski Kuk 0:45, branch for Tolminski Kuk - sedlo Planja 0:45, sedlo Planja - Tolminski Kuk 0:40.

On the way: Jama ob poti na Komno (1303m), Odcep k Črnemu jezeru (1411m), Brezno pod lovsko kočo na Komni (1430m), Spominska plošča Mateju Koblarju (1481m), Pri Hubertu (1492m), Dom na Komni (1520m), Razpotje pod Izpico (1474m), Planina Govnjač (1480m), Razcep Škrli (1675m), Sedlo Planja (1875m)

Trip can be extended to: Podrta gora