Koča pri Savici - Tolminski Kuk (via Vrh Planje)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. Continue driving towards Lake Bohinj (Ribčev Laz), where you reach a junction and continue straight along the left (southern) side of the lake in the direction of Ukanc and the Savica waterfall. Follow this increasingly narrow road to the large parking lot at Koča pri Savici. The parking lot is paid.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the wide footpath in the direction of Savica Waterfall and Dom na Komni (right path over Komarča). After a short gentle ascent, the path leads us to a marked junction, where the tourist path to Savica Waterfall branches off to the right, while we continue slightly left or straight on the wide footpath towards Komna. The path ahead ascends briefly along the Savica river, then leads to the first of the marked 48 switchbacks. After one and a half hours of moderate ascent through the forest, the path reaches the mentioned 48th switchback, from which a beautiful view opens onto Lake Bohinj. Here the path turns slightly right and enters the valley called Pekel, where it ascends gently for a while, then turns right and ascends somewhat steeper again. After a few dozen steps, the path turns left again and continues ascending parallel to the valley. The gentle to moderately steep path ahead gradually transitions into sparser forest, from which we soon see Dom na Komni. The path leads past a small interesting cave, and higher up reaches a junction where the path to Črno jezero branches off to the right; we continue left and proceed on the wide path. Some traversing ascent follows; at a natural abyss fenced for safety, the path turns right, then ascends to the next junction where the path from Črno jezero joins.
A little further, the path splits again; we choose the left path towards Dom na Komni, or we can take the slightly shorter path that continues straight and bypasses Dom na Komni (right Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih).
The ascent continues past the hut Pri Hubertu, and in a few minutes we reach Dom na Komni.
From Dom na Komni, we pass a small chapel and then turn left towards Planina Govnjač, Vogel, and Mahavšček (right Koča pod Bogatinom, Bogatinsko sedlo, and Krn) on the path that soon begins to descend more steeply after the hut and, after about five minutes of further walking, leads to a marked junction where we continue right towards Planina Govnjač (slightly left Vogel and Škrbina).
The path ahead follows an old military mule track, initially ascending slightly before gradually descending. A few more minutes of walking through dwarf pines bring us to Planina Govnjač, where there are some ruins and an information board.
From the information board, we continue on the poorly visible path towards Mahavšček (left Vogel, right Planina na Kraju), which after a few steps leads to numerous ruins (rear of the Krn battlefield from World War I). On the other side of these ruins, we reach the next direction sign, offering two options for continuation.
We continue straight towards "Mahavšček - shortcut" (slightly right Mahavšček; on the TNP map 1:50,000 PZS, the "shortcut" is marked as marked) on the initially poorly visible path that soon becomes clearer and begins to ascend more steeply below steep cliffs. The path, traversing and crossing some small scree slopes, flattens higher up, and a gentler path joins from the right.
We resume the ascent on the old military mule track, which soon leads to a pleasant and relatively large grassy plateau. In the upper part of the plateau, the path turns right and begins a moderate ascent through a small valley. A few steps further, the small valley splits into two (here we notice a cairn marking the start of an unmarked trail to Tolminski Kuk); the marked path continues along the edge of the right valley. The path passes some small hollows before ascending more steeply over an initially grassy slope. Higher up, it crosses a small scree slope and, with increasingly beautiful views, reaches a marked junction below Vrh Škrli.
We continue left towards Tolminski Kuk (right Mahavšček and Bogatin) on the path that soon leads to a small saddle between Kser on the left and Vrh Škrli on the right.
We continue left (right unmarked path to Vrh Škrli) and, after a few dozen steps, reach the indistinct summit called Kser.
The path ahead begins a slight descent south to southeast, leading along a sometimes narrow and quite steep ridge. About 20 minutes of ascent follow, reaching the next summit, Vrh Planje, from which a beautiful view opens to the neighbouring Tolminski Kuk.
From Vrh Planje, we descend quite steeply, and after losing about 100 metres of elevation, the path reaches the Planja saddle. A little further, we join an unmarked path branching from the Planina Govnjač - Mahavšček route (return option).
We continue towards Tolminski Kuk on the path that begins a steep ascent on the crumbly northwestern slope of Tolminski Kuk, where the considerable steepness also poses a high risk of falling rocks. The very steep and increasingly scenic path leads us in just over 35 minutes from the Planja saddle to Tolminski Kuk, the highest peak in the Bohinj-Tolmin mountains ridge.

Starting point - junction to Črno jezero 2:15, junction to Črno jezero - Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar 0:10, Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar - Dom na Komni 0:05, Dom na Komni - junction below Izpica 0:05, junction below Izpica - Planina Govnjač 0:25, Planina Govnjač - junction for Tolminski Kuk 0:45, junction for Tolminski Kuk - junction below Vrh Škrli 0:35, junction below Vrh Škrli - Kser 0:10, Kser - Vrh Planje 0:30, Vrh Planje - Planja saddle 0:15, Planja saddle - 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), Razpotje pod vrhom Škrli (1864m), Sedlo pod Kserom (1884m), Kser (1900m), Vrh Planje (1971m), Sedlo Planja (1875m)

Trip can be extended to: Podrta gora