Krn - Batognica (via planina Sleme)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Tolmin–Kobarid road, shortly before Idrsko, the road to the village of Kamno branches off to the right. We head onto the mentioned road, and once we arrive in the village, we follow the signs for Vrsno. From Vrsno, where the birth house of Simon Gregorčič stands, we continue on a narrow and steep road to the village of Krn, where the road splits into two parts. To the left, the road continues towards the mountain pasture Kuhinja, while we continue straight towards Mrzli vrh. We park above the last houses in the village, where there is a nicely arranged small parking lot with space for 4 to 5 cars.
B) We drive to Kobarid, then continue driving towards Drežnica. Immediately after the bridge over the Soča River, we turn right towards the villages of Ladra, Smast, Libušnje, Vrsno, and Krn. When we arrive at the village of Krn, we continue straight (left to mountain pasture Kuhinja), following the narrow road further to a small arranged parking lot located above the last houses in the village.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road alongside which we parked, which already after a few steps splits into two parts. We continue straight in the direction of Mrzli vrh, and the path continues on an initially still wide cart track that gradually transitions into dense forest. Higher up, the signs for Pretovč, Mrzli vrh, and Puščavnikova jama direct us left onto a wide ascending footpath, to which a less beaten path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja soon joins. The footpath soon turns right and then ascends diagonally through the forest. A little further on, we reach Puščavnikova jama, to which we have only a few dozen steps from the marked path.
We continue through occasionally somewhat sparser forest, and a moderately steep path leads us to a forest road, which we follow left in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme (right downhill to Mrzli vrh and mountain pasture Pretovč). Just a little higher, we reach the next junction, where a path from the mountain pasture Polog joins from the right.
We continue again in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme, and the road, which begins to ascend more steeply, leads us into a belt of dense forest. Higher up, we exit the forest, and the gradually less steep road leads us to the mountain pasture Sleme.
On the mountain pasture, at the NOB monument, we continue left onto a panoramic grassy ridge, along which we walk to the former junction. Here, the signs for Krn and Rdeči rob direct us left onto the lower path (the upper path has been closed for a long time due to impassability), which crosses the slopes to the left. The path ahead quickly leads us to a steep and wide gully, over which runs an excellently arranged path (if the path is damaged, the passage is deadly dangerous). The path ahead transitions to grassy slopes, crosses another smaller gully, over which the path is also exemplarily arranged. After that, the path enters a forest belt, where it continues to cross relatively steep slopes. The slope then flattens, and the path leads us over a grazing fence to the grazing areas of the mountain pasture Leskovica, where the marked path begins to fade. We descend diagonally somewhat to the right, where we pick up the path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja towards the lake in Lužnica.
We continue in the direction of Krn, and the path ascends ever more steeply upwards. Further on, we ascend steep slopes between Maselnik (1906 m) on the left and Veliki Stador (1903 m) on the right. Higher up, the path turns and leads us into a small cirque, where an unmarked path to Rdeči rob branches off to the right (the branch-off is marked). The marked path here turns left and ascends over a short steep slope, then flattens and leads us to the saddle between Maselnik and Škofič. Here we continue straight and then along the lower path (the right upper path bypasses the lake); in a few minutes of descent, we reach the lake in Lužnica, which we can already see from the aforementioned saddle.
From the lake, we gently ascend along a poorly visible footpath (direction north), then join the path that bypasses the lake on the right side. Further on, we ascend through a beautiful high mountain valley (Peski po Lužnici), then the path turns slightly left and ascends more steeply. A short steep ascent follows, and the path leads us to the ridge north of Srednji vrh. Here the path turns right and leads us to Prag (2068 m) in a few minutes. At Prag, where there is a marked junction, we continue left in the direction of Batognica (straight downhill to Krnsko jezero, right to Vrh nad Peski and the hut on Planina Razor) along the path that moderately ascends the summit slope of Batognica. We then follow this increasingly scenic path to the summit, which we reach after 15 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Planina Sleme (1448m), The lake Jezero v Lužnici (1801m), Prag (2068m)