Krn - Krn (via planina Sleme)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Tolmin - Kobarid road, shortly before Idrski, the road to the village 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 Krn, where the road splits into two parts. To the left the road continues towards the mountain pasture Kuhinja, and we continue straight towards Mrzli vrh. We park above the last houses in the village, where there is a nicely arranged smaller 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 river Soča, we turn right in the direction of the villages Ladra, Smast, Libušnje, Vrsno and Krn. When we arrive at the village Krn, we continue straight (left to mountain pasture Kuhinja), and we continue to follow the narrow road to the smaller 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, and it splits into two parts already after a few steps. We continue straight in the direction of Mrzli vrh and continue on the initially still wide cart track, which gradually transitions into dense forest. Higher up, the signs for Pretovč, Mrzli vrh and Puščavnikova jama direct us left onto a wide ascending path, to which a less trodden path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja soon joins. The path soon turns right and then ascends transversely through the forest. A little further on, we arrive at Puščavnikova jama, to which we have only a few dozen steps from the marked path.
We continue through occasionally somewhat sparser forest, and the moderately steep path leads us to a forest road, which we follow left in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme (right downhill Mrzli vrh and mountain pasture Pretovč). Only a little higher we arrive at the next junction, where the 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 maintained 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 maintained. After that, the path enters a belt of forest, where it continues to cross relatively steep slopes. The slope then flattens, and the path leads us over a pasture fence to the pasture areas of the mountain pasture Leskovica, where the marked path begins to fade. We descend transversely 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 becomes steeper and steeper uphill. Further, we ascend steep slopes between Maselnik (1906 m) on the left and Veliki Stador (1903 m) on the right. Higher up, the path breaks 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), and in a few minutes of descent we arrive at the lake in Lužnica, which we can already see from the aforementioned saddle.
From the lake, we gently ascend along a poorly visible path (direction north), then join the path that bypasses the lake on the right side. Further, we ascend through a beautiful high mountain valley (Peski po Lužnici), then the path turns somewhat 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 Krnsko jezero, right Vrh nad Peski and koča na planini Razor) along the path that moderately ascends the summit slope of Batognica. We then follow this increasingly panoramic path to the summit, which we reach after 15 minutes of further walking.
From Batognica we continue on an initially somewhat poorly visible path that continues along the left side of the peak. The path, which initially descends only slightly, soon leads us into steeper terrain, where we begin to descend more steeply. After a short descent, we reach relatively steep steps, along which we descend steeply. On this section, due to the scree on the path, there is a high risk of slipping. The path ahead gradually flattens and a little further leads us to Krnska škrbina (we can also reach the škrbina if at Prag we continue along the so-called Northern Path, which bypasses the peak Batognica; the latter is somewhat shorter but also significantly less panoramic).
From the škrbina we continue straight (left Planina Kuhinja, right Krnsko jezero) along the path that begins to ascend the grassy slope of the mountain. We follow this increasingly panoramic path to the panoramic summit, which we reach after approximately 30 minutes of walking from Krnska škrbina.

On the way: Planina Sleme (1448m), The lake Jezero v Lužnici (1801m), Prag (2068m), Batognica (2164m), Krnska škrbina (2058m)