Planina Polog - Kser (via planina Dobrenjščica)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Tolmin; from there we follow the road in the direction of Zatolmin (we leave the main road at the traffic light). In Zatolmin we notice signposts for Javorca, which direct us onto an ascending road towards Javorca. The occasionally quite narrow and in places precipitous road brings us after approximately 8 km of driving to a smaller intersection, where the road towards Javorca branches off to the left upwards. We continue straight, we follow the road only for approximately 100 m, and then at an appropriate place by the gate we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a macadam road (road is closed for public traffic), and after a few minutes of easy walking it brings us to the main part of the mountain pasture, where there are a few cottages. Behind the mountain pasture, the road becomes even a little worse, and after a few minutes of additional walking brings us to a crossing, where the path towards the mountain pasture Planina na Prodih branches off to the right (access to the mountain pasture is very interesting, because we have to cross the river Tolminka, and this is done by a manual cableway). We continue straight, and the road finally changes into a cart track and higher into a well-preserved mule track. After that, the path becomes a little steeper and past two benches and higher past a fresh rockfall (earthquake in Posočje 1998) brings us to a grazing fence, over which we step on the south edge of the mountain pasture Planina pod Osojnico. Only a few meters ahead, the path splits into two parts. We continue on the right lower path, on which in a gentle descent we quickly arrive at the hunting cottage at the source of Tolminka.
From the source of Tolminka we continue a gentle ascent through the mountain pasture Planina pod Osojnico, and from the left soon joins the upper path, which is exposed to active rockfall.
We continue in the direction "Planina Prode and Prehodci" on the path which brings us to a mighty torrent where there is again a crossing.
At the crossing, we continue right following the signs »Planina Prode« and by the dam we cross a wide riverbed of a torrent. On the other side of the riverbed there is again a crossing. This time we continue left, right leads the path towards Planina Prode. The path then for a short time leads through the forest parallel with the riverbed of a torrent, then turns to the right and starts ascending. Later the path brings us to a smaller clearing, then starts a little steeper ascent through the forest. Further on, we ascend for quite some time in zigzags through the forest. Higher the forest becomes on some sections a little thinner and increasingly beautiful views start to open up. The path then turns to the right and in ascent crosses slopes towards the southeast. Out of the forest we come on slopes a little overgrown with nettles and bushes and follows the last ascent to the hunting cottage on Planina Dobrenjščica.
At the hunting cottage we continue left towards the northwest and the path soon brings us to a marked crossing. To the right upwards leads the path towards the Koča na planini Razor, we continue left and further cross the slope towards the northwest. Along the path we will then soon notice a poorly visible path which leads left downwards towards a spring (marked with the caption »Voda 40m«). From here we continue another good 100 meters along the path, then we will notice right upwards a narrow strip which is not overgrown with dwarf pines. Here we leave the marked path and head straight upwards along the dwarf pines. Further on we then steeply ascend along the dwarf pines upwards until we come to a less trodden path. On the path we continue right and then start to ascend in zigzags upwards. The path is here marked with a few cairns and brings us from the dwarf pines onto rocky slopes. The path becomes even a little less visible and turns a little to the right towards the east. A little below the ridge we will spot a military bunker towards which we ascend. From here follows a short ascent to the saddle between the peaks Kser and Vrh Škrli, where we join the marked path which leads to Tolminski Kuk.
We continue right along the ridge in the direction of Tolminski Kuk and the path soon brings us to the indistinct peak named Kser.

On the way: The Tolminka spring (695m), Planina Dobrenjščica (1304m)

Trip can be extended to: Vrh Planje , Podrta gora , Tolminski Kuk (1 h 45 min)