Planina Polog - Velika Baba (via Velika Montura)

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 junction, 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 park at an appropriate place by the barrier.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a macadam road which is closed to public traffic, on it in a few minutes of easy walking we arrive at the central part of the mountain pasture Polog, where there are a few cottages.
Behind the mountain pasture, the road becomes even a little worse, and it brings us after a few minutes of further walking to a junction, where to the right branches off the path towards the mountain pasture Planina na Prodih (access to the mountain pasture is very interesting, because we have to cross the river Tolminka, which is enabled by a manual cableway). We continue straight, and the road eventually turns into a cart track and higher into a well-preserved mule track. The path then becomes a little steeper and brings us past two benches and higher a fresh rocky outcrop (earthquake in Posočje 1998) to a grazing fence, over which we step onto the southern edge of the mountain pasture under Osojnica. Just a few meters further the path forks, and 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 across the mountain pasture under Osojnica, and from the left soon joins the upper path, which is exposed to active rocky debris.
We continue in the direction "planina Prode and Prehodci" on the path which brings us to a mighty torrent bed. We cross the torrent bed and on the other side continue left in the direction of Prehodci (slightly right Planina Dobrenjščica). Further we gently ascend on a well-preserved military mule track, which we can leave a few times, as the marked path takes "shortcuts". Higher up bushes and grass are slowly replaced by scree, and the path turns increasingly to the left. A little higher, we again reach a mighty torrent gully, which here already connects with nearby screes falling from the nearby Mali and Veliki Kuntar.
Here to the left across the mighty torrent bed branches off an unmarked path, which leads towards Planina Lašča and further to Rdeči rob and Male peske, and we continue right on the marked path, which gradually enters dense forest. The mule track then ascends in numerous switchbacks and for some time still runs through the forest. Higher the forest thins out and the path turns increasingly to the right, bringing us to panoramic and steep slopes. Across the artificial and wide ledge a steel cable assists us, which is useful when there is still snow on the ledge (without snow the passage is undemanding). The path ahead ascends moderately once more and brings us in a few minutes to the marked junction at Prehodci.
At the junction we continue right following the signs »Dom na Komni« and »Koča na planini Razor« (left Krn and Dom pri Krnskih jezerih). Further the path turns slightly right and mostly runs along dwarf pines. A relatively level path, from which beautiful views open towards Bogatin and Mahavšček, then brings us to a well-marked junction. Here we continue left following the signs Dom na Komni, right leads the path towards Koča na planini Razor. The path then gently descends and brings us to the valley Za Lepočami, where we will notice quite a few buildings that the Italians built between the two wars for the needs of guarding the Rapallo border.
Behind Za Lepočami, where there is also a junction, we continue right following the signs Komna (left Krnsko jezero). From the junction the path first ascends somewhat more steeply, then becomes gentler and brings us to the place where we leave the marked path.
We leave the marked path when a nice passage opens to our left side, at the place or slightly left in the grass where we leave the markings, there is usually a small cairn. Initially we walk across grassy terrain, where we pick up a path that with the help of cairns leads towards an indistinct valley, which is located between Velika Montura and point 1919, which is located somewhat right of Velika Montura. When we reach the valley the path becomes steeper, on it we ascend all the way to the saddle between the mentioned summits.
From the saddle we go right (left Velika Montura) and follow the path and cairns to point 1919, from it to the junction of unmarked paths below the summit Predolina.
From the junction we go slightly left (right one can reach Lanževica), and cross the slopes of Predolina, then approach the ridge connecting Predolina with Velika Baba. We continue slightly left and walk under the ridge, thus crossing occasionally dwarf pine-covered slopes. The path through the dwarf pines is traceable, but at some places quite overgrown. The path then brings us to the ridge, somewhat further we reach the marked path that leads from Lepena towards Velika Baba.
We continue on the marked path, on it in approximately 10 minutes of ascent we climb to the panoramic summit.
Planina Polog - source of Tolminka 1:00, source of Tolminka - Planina na Zgornjih Prodih 0:30, Planina na Zgornjih Prodih - Prehodci 2:20, Prehodci - Za Lepočami 0:30, Za Lepočami - Velika Baba 1:25.

On the way: The Tolminka spring (695m), Planina na Zgornjih Prodih (850m), Prehodci (1639m), Za Lepočami (1608m)