Koča pri Savici - Vrh Planje (via Kser)

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 Bohinjsko jezero (Ribčev Laz), at which 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. Then follow this increasingly narrow road to the large parking lot at Koča pri Savici. The parking lot is chargeable.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto the wide footpath in the direction of Slapu Savica and Doma na Komni (right path čez Komarčo). After a short gentle ascent, the path brings us to a marked junction, where the tourist path to Slapu Savica branches off to the right, but we continue slightly left or straight on the wide footpath in the direction of Komne. The path ahead continues to ascend for a short time along the Savici, 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 mentioned 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 to the right and ascends somewhat steeper again. After just a few dozen steps, the path turns left again and continues to ascend parallel to the valley. The gentle to moderately steep path ahead gradually enters a sparser forest, from which we soon see Dom na Komni. The path ahead leads us past a small interesting cave, higher up it brings us to a junction, where the path to Črnemu jezeru branches off to the right, but we continue left and further on the wide path. There follows some traverse ascent, at the natural abyss, which is fenced for safety, the path turns right, then ascends to the next junction, where the path from Črnega jezera joins us.
A little further on, the path splits once more, but we choose the left path in the direction of Doma na Komni, or we can take the slightly shorter path that continues straight and bypasses Dom na Komni (right Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih).
There follows the ascent past the hut Pri Hubertu and in a few minutes we reach Dom na Komni.
From Doma na Komni, we go past a small chapel, then go left in the direction of Planine Govnjač, Vogla and Mahavščka (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 junction, where we continue right in the direction of Planine Govnjač (slightly left Vogel and Škrbina).
The path ahead follows an old military mule track and first ascends a bit more, then gradually descends. There follows a few more minutes of walking among the dwarf pines and we arrive at Planine 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 Mahavščka (left Vogel, right Planina na Kraju), which after a few steps brings us to numerous ruins (rear of the Krnskega bojišča 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 - bližnjica" (slightly right Mahavšček, on the TNP map 1:50.000 PZS, the "bližnjica" is marked as marked) on an initially less visible path, which soon becomes clearer and then begins to ascend steeper under steep cliffs. The path, which in a traverse ascent crosses some smaller screes, levels off higher and the gentle path joins us from the right.
We continue the ascent again on the old military mule track, which brings us a little higher 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 will notice a cairn marking the start of the unmarked trail to Tolminski Kuk), but the marked path continues along the edge of the right valley. The path ahead leads us past some small hollows, then begins to ascend more steeply over an initially grassy slope. Higher up, the path crosses a small scree, then with increasingly beautiful views brings us to a marked junction below Vrhom Škrli.
We continue left in the direction of Tolminskega Kuka (right Mahavšček and Bogatin) on the path that after a few steps of further walking brings us to a small saddle between Kserom on the left and Vrhom Škrli on the right.
We continue left (right unmarked path to Vrh Škrli) and after a few dozen steps of further walking, we step onto the indistinct summit called Kser.
The path ahead begins to descend gently towards the south to southeast and leads us along a locally narrow and quite steep ridge. There follows an approximately 20-minute ascent and we reach the next summit, Vrh Planje, a summit from which a beautiful view of the neighboring Tolminski Kuk opens up.

Starting point - junction to Črnemu jezeru 2:15, junction to Črnemu jezeru - Memorial plaque to Mateju Koblarju 0:10, Memorial plaque to Mateju Koblarju - Dom na Komni 0:05, Dom na Komni - junction below Izpico 0:05, junction below Izpico - Planina Govnjač 0:25, Planina Govnjač - junction for Tolminski Kuk 0:45, junction for Tolminski Kuk - junction below Vrhom Škrli 0:35, junction below Vrhom Škrli - Kser 0:10, Kser - Vrh Planje 0:35.

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)

Trip can be extended to: Podrta gora , Tolminski Kuk ( 45 min)