Krn - Vrh nad Peski (via planina Sleme)

Access to starting point:
A) From the road Tolmin - Kobarid, a little before Idrsko, the road to the village Kamno branches off to the right. We head to the mentioned road, 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 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 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 small arranged parking lot, which is located above the last houses in the village.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road by 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 beaten path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja quickly 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 brings us to a forest road, which we follow left in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme (right downwards 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 us from the right.
We continue again in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme, and the road, which begins to ascend more steeply, brings us into a belt of dense forest. Higher up we step out of the forest and the gradually less steep road brings 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 brings 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 passes onto grassy slopes, crosses another smaller gully, over 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 brings us over a grazing fence to the grazing areas of the mountain pasture Leskovica, where the marked path begins to disappear. 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 more and more steeply upwards. Further 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 brings us into a small cirque, where to the right branches an unmarked path to Rdeči rob (the branch-off is marked). The marked path here turns left and ascends over a short steep slope, then flattens and brings 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 brings us to the ridge north of Srednji vrh. Here the path turns right and brings us to Prag (2068 m) in a few minutes.
At Prag, where there is a marked junction, we continue right in the direction of the hut on mountain pasture Razor (left Batognica and Krn, straight down Krnsko jezero) along the path that crosses the slopes of Vrh nad Peski. After approximately 10 minutes of crossing scree under Vrh nad Peski, we will reach a smaller junction, where we continue left in the direction of "V. Peski". The path ahead ascends in a few minutes to a small grassy saddle, then continues along an increasingly panoramic and occasionally quite steep path. We follow this panoramic and relatively steep path all the way to Vrh nad Peski, which we reach after a few minutes of further walking.

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

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