Nomenj - Koča na Soriški planini (via Planina Strmne)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Bled, from there we continue driving towards Bohinj. Still before Bohinjska Bistrica, at settlement Nomenj, where by the main road are situated bus stop, railway station and inn Gostilna pri Matičku, there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any appropriate places for parking.
B) We drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, and then we continue driving towards Bled. Still before Bled, at settlement Nomenj, where by the main road are situated bus stop, railway station and inn Gostilna pri Matičku, there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any appropriate places for parking.

Path description:
From the inn Gostilna pri Matičku we continue in the direction of waterfall Grmečica, where the path at first leads parallel with the main road, and we walk on a worse macadam road. We soon go right through the underpass under the railway track, and then we go once again right in the direction of waterfall Grmečica and blast furnace Emin plavž. We continue on a macadam road which over pastures brings us to the former parking lot, today parking is allowed only with permit for fishermen and users of canyoning.
From the parking lot, we still continue on a macadam road, and it quickly brings us to footbridge over the river Sava Bohinjka. After the bridge, we continue left in the direction towards blast furnace Emin plavž (right waterfall Grmečica) and on a macadam road we walk to the nearby Emin plavž, where there is an information board.
Over a small wooden bridge we walk to renovated ruins of blast furnace, and then we continue on a cart track in the direction towards the source of Plavžarica (signpost pointing a little too much to the right). Further, we are at first ascending on the left side of Plavžarica, and higher we cross it and short time we continue the ascent by the left bank, but the path still before the source avoids more to the right, where on triangular crossroad of cart tracks, we choose the one, which is ascending. Next follow few crossings, and we follow "main" cart track, on which we ascend to a forest road which we follow right in the direction towards Nemški Rovt (if we continue left we can get to Bitenjska planina and forward on Ratitovec). Further, we for some time walk on a macadam road, after the crossing of usually dry riverbed of Grmečica from the crossroad we continue straight. When we reach an asphalt road, we go left (right Nemški Rovt), and we walk there to the first left turn, from which we continue slightly right on a cart track which is ascending by the ditch. When little ahead cart track passes into bottom of the small valley, it is vanishing, and higher it is overgrown by lush vegetation. Before a little more steep gable of valley, on the left we notice a footpath which ascends diagonally from ditch and after a shorter crossing brings us to other footpath which we follow right upwards, so that we walk above "riverbed" of ditch or small valley. Above the steep part, because of which path left small valley, we return into a small valley, because of strong wind in December 2017 is continuation on the old footpath practically impossible. At climbing through fallen trees and crawling below them, we stick to direction straight or slightly left, and we soon step on newer cart track which was made when they were removing felled trees. The mentioned cart track at the crossings we follow a little right, and when we reach the macadam road, we go once again right (if on the mentioned road we continue left, we return on an asphalt road). Macadam road quickly splits, and we choose the left path (here we would step on a wider road, if old path would be relatively easy to follow, which is because of the fallen trees impassable). Further, the road leads through ample mountain pasture Strmne, where we reach a marked path Bohinjska Bistrica - Soriška planina.
Few strides ahead we leave the road and we continue left in the direction of Soriška planina (straight mountain hut Orožnova koča), and the path leads us on a moderately steep meadow. After smaller cottage path passes into the forest, through which is moderately to occasionally steeply ascending, and higher we cross another forest road. The marked path, by which there are mostly older blazes, then brings us by high voltage power line, by which we are for some time ascending, and further we cross also the road which leads to a saddle Vrh Bače. On this part, the path passes into a smaller valley, and there we lightly ascend to the main road, on which we continue to a large parking lot by the foot of Soriška planina, where there is also bar Brunarica.
After information boards we go right and in few minutes we ascend to the mountain hut Litostrojska koča on Soriška planina.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (May).

On the way: Planina Strmne (935m), Bohinjski preval (1280m)

Trip can be extended to: Vrh Bače , Planina Za Črno goro , Kobla , Krevl , Dravh , Lajnar , Šavnik , Slatnik (southeastern peak) , Možic , Slatnik (northwestern peak) , Rušni vrh , Črna prst