Planina Polog - Vrh nad Peski (via planina Sleme)

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 parts precipitous road, after approximately 8 km of driving, brings us to a smaller crossroad, where the road towards Javorca branches off to the left upwards. Here we turn left and follow the road for a good 100 m to a marked parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a concrete road, which quickly enters the forest and starts ascending steeply. After approximately 15 minutes of walking, the forest thins out, and the road turns sharply to the right. There follows only a few minutes of walking along the edge of the pastures, and the road brings us to the memorial church of the Holy Spirit on Javorca.
We bypass the church on the left side and continue on a wide and initially gentle cart track, which quickly enters the forest. Here we can hear, to our left below us, the roaring of the waterfall of the Peščak stream, while we continue on the marked path (cart track), which higher crosses the mentioned stream over a bridge. Further, we ascend on a moderately steep cart track, which continues partly through the forest, partly through dense shrubbery and brambles. Higher, we cross one more of the numerous grazing fences, and the path brings us to the mountain pasture Črča, on which a few old huts stand.
Just before the huts on the mountain pasture, the signs for the mountain pastures Sleme, Medrje and Laška seč direct us slightly to the left, where we ascend through high grass to an indistinct ridge along which the grazing fence runs. Further, we ascend along the grazing fence, then the path enters dense forest, where it steeply ascends for a short time to a trough with water. Here the path turns slightly to the right, and after a few dozen steps it brings us to the next grazing fence. We cross the grazing fence and walk to the huts on the mountain pasture Laška seč.
Above the mountain pasture the path goes into the forest, which continues on a wide cart track. Somewhat higher we emerge from the forest, and just a few meters after crossing the grazing fence we continue left on a poorly visible and poorly marked path. The path higher joins the cart track and brings us, just a few meters further, to the shepherd's hut on the mountain pasture Medrja.
From the hut on the mountain pasture we ascend diagonally to the left, where we quickly reach a poor forest road. We follow the road to the left; after the initial gentle ascent, it gradually starts to descend lightly. Higher we approach the mountain pasture Pretovč completely, and at the intersection by the eponymous saddle we continue right in the direction of the mountain pasture Sleme. The road ahead starts to ascend more steeply, higher it crosses a belt of dense forest, then flattens out and brings us, with ever more beautiful views, 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 there is 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 likewise 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 otherwise marked path starts to disappear. We descend diagonally 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 the path continues ever more steeply upwards. Further, we ascend on steep slopes between Maselnik (1906 m) on the left and Veliki Stador (1903 m) on the right. Higher the path turns and brings us into a small cirque, where to the right an unmarked path to Rdeči rob branches off (the junction is marked). The marked path here turns left and ascends over a short steep slope, then flattens and brings us to the col between Maselnik and Škofič. Here we continue straight ahead and then on the lower path (the right upper path bypasses the lake); 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 on a poorly visible path (direction north), then join the path which bypasses the lake on the right side. Further, we ascend through a beautiful high mountain valley (Peski po Lužnici), then the path turns somewhat to the 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, in a few minutes, to Prag (2068 m).
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) on the path which crosses the slopes of Vrh nad Peski. After approximately 10 minutes of crossing scree under Vrh nad Peski, we will arrive at 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 col, then continues on an ever more 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.

On the way: Javorca (571m), Planina Črča (800m), Planina Laška seč (1000m), Planina Medrja (1133m), Planina Sleme (1448m), The lake Jezero v Lužnici (1801m), Prag (2068m)