Krn - Lake Jezero v Lužnici (via planina Sleme)
Starting point: Krn (900 m)
Path name: via planina Sleme
Time of walking: 3 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 901 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1000 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From the Tolmin - Kobarid road, a little before Idrsko, the road to the village Kamno branches off to the right. We head to the mentioned road, and then, when 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, and then we 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 get to the village Krn, we continue straight (left mountain pasture Kuhinja), and we continue to follow the narrow road to a smaller arranged parking lot, which is 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 already splits into two parts after a few steps. We continue straight in the direction of Mrzli vrh and continue on the initially still wide cart track, which gradually passes into a 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 to Mrzli vrh and mountain pasture Pretovč). Just a little higher, we arrive at the next junction, where a path from the mountain pasture Polog joins us 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 step out of the forest and the gradually less steep road leads us to the mountain pasture Sleme.
At the mountain pasture by 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, across which runs an excellently arranged path (if the path is damaged, the passage is deadly dangerous). The path ahead passes onto grassy slopes, crosses another smaller gully, across which the path is also exemplarily arranged. 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 grazing fence to the grazing 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 continue increasingly steeply uphill. 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), and in a few minutes of descent we arrive at the lake in Lužnica, which we can already see from the aforementioned saddle.
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