Koča pri Savici - Vrh Planje (via sedlo Planja)

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), at which you reach an intersection, continue straight along the left (southern) side of the lake in the direction of Ukanc and Savica Waterfall. Follow this increasingly narrow road to the large parking lot at Koča pri Savici. Parking is payable.

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 brings us to a marked junction, where the tourist path to Savica Waterfall branches off to the right, but we continue slightly left or straight on the wide footpath in the direction of Komna. The path ahead continues to ascend for a short time along the 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 mentioned 48th switchback, from which a beautiful view of Lake Bohinj opens up. Here the path turns slightly to the right and enters the valley called Pekel, where it ascends gently for a while, then turns 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 path ahead, gentle to moderately steep, 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 Black Lake branches off to the right, but we continue left and further on the wide path. This is followed by 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 Black Lake joins us.
A little further on, 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).
This is followed by an ascent past the hut 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 junction, 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. This is followed by a few minutes of walking among the 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 continuing.
We continue straight in the direction of "Mahavšček - shortcut" (slightly right Mahavšček, on the TNP map 1:50.000 PZS, the "shortcut" is marked as marked) on an initially less visible path, which soon becomes clearer and then begins to ascend more steeply under steep cliffs. The path, which in a traverse ascent crosses some smaller screes, levels out higher up 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 a moderate ascent along 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.
Here we leave the marked path leading to Mahavšček and continue left on the unmarked trail. We continue on a slightly ascending and in places quite overgrown path, which brings us a little higher 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 right towards Mahavšček and Bogatin (left Tolminski Kuk) and follow the relatively steep and increasingly scenic path, which is especially in wet conditions dangerous for slipping in some places, to Vrh Planje, which we reach after 20 minutes of further walking.

Starting point - junction to Black Lake 2:15, junction to Black Lake - Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar 0:10, Memorial plaque to Matej Koblar - Dom na Komni 0:05, Dom na Komni - junction under Izpica 0:05, junction under Izpica - Planina Govnjač 0:25, Planina Govnjač - junction for Tolminski Kuk 0:45, junction for Tolminski Kuk - sedlo Planja 0:45, sedlo Planja - Vrh Planje 0:20.

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 , Tolminski Kuk ( 45 min)