Krn - Planina Pretovč

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 to the mentioned road, then, 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, 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 Soča River, we turn right in the direction of the villages Ladra, Smast, Libušnje, Vrsno and Krn. When we arrive at the village of Krn, we continue straight (left Planina Kuhinja), and we follow the still narrow road to a smaller well-maintained parking lot located above the last houses in the village.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road alongside which we parked, but it already splits into two parts after a few steps. We continue straight in the direction of Mrzli vrh and continue the path along an initially still wide cart track, which gradually transitions into a 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 trodden path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja soon joins. The footpath 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 a moderately steep path leads us to a forest road, which we follow to the right. There follows a short descent along the road to a marked junction on a small saddle, where we continue right in the direction of Mrzli vrh. The path further leads us past an information board, after which we soon arrive at the shepherd's hut on the mountain pasture Pretovč.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in May 2011.

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