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Mountain ranges / Julian Alps / Velika Baba / Koča pri Savici - Velika Baba (via Velika Montura)

Koča pri Savici - Velika Baba (via Velika Montura)

Starting point: Koča pri Savici (653 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2896°N 13.8022°E 
Path name: via Velika Montura
Time of walking: 5 h 35 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 1363 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1500 m
Map: TNP 1:50.000
Views: 2,240
Trip rating: 1 votes
Number of pictures: 86
Access to starting point:
We drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, and then we continue driving in the direction of the lake Bohinj. From Lake Bohinj we follow the signs for waterfall Savica, and we park on a payable parking lot at the mountain hut Koča pri Savici.
Price for parking for a car to 3 hours is 3 eur, and more than 3 hours 6 eur (September 2018).
Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a wide path in the direction of waterfall Savica, Dom na Komni and Koča pod Bogatinom. We at first walk on a gently sloping macadam road, and we quickly go from the road slightly left on a marked path towards Komna (right waterfall Savica). Further, we are ascending on an old mule track, which leads us through 48 marked hairpin turns. At the last marked zig zag we reach valley Pekel, which we soon leave, and the path is still ascending through the forest. Higher forest gradually starts to get thinner, and from the right joins the path which leads over Komarča and past the lake Črno jezero.
Only few 10 strides ahead path once again splits, and we choose the left path in the direction of Dom na Komni (right mountain hut Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih and also Koča pod Bogatinom, the latter is about a minute shorter as the one which leads past Dom na Komni), to which we get into 5 minutes of additional walking.
From Dom na Komni we continue right in the direction of Koča pod Bogatinom (straight ski slope Vogel and mountain pasture Govnjač), where we soon join the before mentioned path. Follows approximately 10 minutes of easy walking and we get to the mountain pasture Planina na Kraju, where Koča pod Bogatinom is situated.
On the mountain pasture, about a minute ahead from the mountain hut, there is a marked crossing, and we continue in the direction of saddle Bogatinsko sedlo or Vratca (right Lanževica over Lepa Komna). On the other side of the mountain pasture, where to the left almost unnoticeable another path towards the mountain pasture Govnjač branches off, the path gradually starts ascending. We are ascending diagonally on an area named Gracija, and during the crossing on the south side we bypass also less known Srednji vrh. After the crossing of Srednji vrh path becomes a little steeper and splits. We can continue on a moderately steep mule track, which makes longer zig zag, or slightly right, on a steeper mountain path. Both paths join on a saddle Bogatinsko sedlo, where there is the next marked crossing.
From the saddle, from where a nice view opens up also in the direction of Krn, we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Dom pri Krnskih jezerih and Krn (left Bogatin, right Lanževica) and we gradually start descending. For some time we are moderately descending, and then the path flattens and is only lightly descending. On gentle part, on the right side we notice a caption Krn, and when hill on the right ends, the path to near cavern branches off sharply to the right. Here we continue on a marked path, and we leave it few 10 strides ahead, where by the path usually stands a smaller cairn.
From the marked path we go at mentioned spot right, where we soon notice bad footpath which with the help of cairns leads us towards indistinct small valley, which is situated between Velika Montura and survey point 1919, which is situated a little right from Velika Montura. When we reach small valley the footpath becomes steeper, and there we are ascending all the way to a small saddle between the mentioned peaks.
From the saddle, we go right (left Velika Montura) and we follow the footpath and cairns to survey point 1919, and from there to the crossing of unmarked footpaths below the summit of Predolina.
From the crossing, we go slightly left (right we can come on Lanževica), and we cross slopes of Predolina, and then we get closer to the ridge, which connects Predolina with Velika Baba. We continue slightly left and we walk below the ridge, so that we cross occasionally with dwarf pines vegetated slopes. The footpath through dwarf pines is relatively easy to follow, but on some spots is quite overgrown. The path then it brings us on a ridge and a little further we reach a marked path which leads from Lepena towards Velika Baba.
We continue on a marked path, and there in approximately 10 minutes of ascent, we ascend on a panoramic peak.
Koča pri Savici - Dom na Komni 2:30, Dom na Komni - Koča pod Bogatinom 0:15, Koča pod Bogatinom - Bogatinsko sedlo 1:15, Bogatinsko sedlo - Velika Baba 1:35.
Description refers to condition in the year 2018 (September), and pictures are from various periods.
On the way: Pekel (1256m), Dom na Zelenici (1520m), Koča pod Bogatinom mountain hut (1513m), Bogatinsko sedlo (1803m)
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