Podbrdo - Rušni vrh (via Vrh Bače)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, and then we continue driving towards Železniki and Tolmin. When we get to Podbrdo, we need to pay attention, because we will turn right immediately behind the church onto a narrower local road which starts ascending by the river Bača. We park in an appropriate place by the road, or on a smaller parking lot by the local cemetery.
B) From the road Idrija - Most na Soči, at the settlement Bača pri Modreju we turn right, or left, if we come from the direction of Posočje, and we continue driving towards Podbrdo. At the end of the settlement Podbrdo, we need to pay attention, because we will turn left just before the church of St. Miklavž onto a narrower local road which starts ascending by the river Bača. We park in an appropriate place by the road, or on a smaller parking lot by the local cemetery.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the initially still asphalt road, from which soon a marked footpath towards Vrh Bače branches off sharply to the left. Further, we continue past an old residential house, behind which we gradually enter the forest. Through the forest, we ascend on a relatively well-marked and partly also quite steep mountain path, which higher up levels out and brings us out of the forest onto a short panoramic slope, across which we walk to the nearby church of St. Lenart.
At the church, we step onto a narrow road, along which we quickly walk into the village Bača pri Podbrdu. Through the small and panoramic village, we follow the blazes, which lead us onto a cart track that starts ascending through the forest. The narrower and initially somewhat overgrown cart track joins an old mule track after just a few minutes. We follow the wide mule track to the right, and it brings us after a few minutes to a smaller junction, where we continue on the upper left path in the direction of Vrh Bače (slightly right Petrovo Brdo).
Further on, we continue ascending for quite some time on a well-preserved and quite wide mule track, which higher up we leave briefly because the path takes a marked shortcut. Higher up, the mule track is blocked a few times by fallen trees, then we approach the cliffs of the peak Šance, where we leave the mule track. Next, we ascend a quite steep path, along which after 5 minutes of further walking we arrive at the hunting cottage on Vrh Bače.
From the hunting cottage, we continue straight ahead (sharply right Petrovo Brdo) and ascend to the saddle Vrh Bače, where there is a marked junction. Here we continue left in the direction of Črna prst (slightly right along the road to Soriška planina, right uphill to Šavnik and Možic) and begin to ascend diagonally through the forest. When the path has ascended almost below the very summit of Šance, it begins to descend towards a smaller saddle. The path first leads past the GRS cottage, then we reach the aforementioned saddle. Ahead, the path first ascends moderately, then gradually brings us to the ridge of Kobla, where it becomes even steeper. There follows a few minutes of steep ascent along a path that runs along the edge of the occasionally exposed ridge. Higher up, the path levels out, turns slightly to the right and brings us to the less pronounced summit of Kobla.
From Kobla there follows a gentle descent, then the path continues along a less steep ridge towards the neighbouring Krevl. Towards the summit of Krevl, somewhat further to the left a marked path branches off in the direction of "Kobla žig", while we continue straight and bypass the summit on the right side, to which it is otherwise only a few dozen steps.
On the other side of Krevl, the path begins to descend again, this time to the nearby ski slope. When we reach the edge of the ski run, we notice signs for Črna prst, which direct us left downhill. There follows some more descent, then we arrive at the smaller marshy area Na Kalu, where there is also a less noticeable junction. We continue on the right path (to the left, over a smaller saddle, leads an old shepherd path that crosses the southern slopes of the lower Bohinj Mountains, which later joins the path from Podbrdo towards Črna prst), which continues gently descending and brings us somewhat lower to a marked junction, where the path from the mountain pasture Za Črno goro joins from the right.
At the mentioned junction we continue slightly left, then we begin to ascend moderately through the forest. Higher up, the trail makes a few long zigzags, then brings us from the increasingly sparse forest or belt of bushes to the scree slopes below Rušni vrh. Here the path temporarily levels out, then on the other side of the scree it begins to ascend steeply up the grassy gully below the ridge of Home. On this section, in late spring there is an increased danger of falling rocks. Higher up, the gully ends, and the path crosses a short steep slope, where snow can still persist until early summer. Above the steep section, we join the path from Orožnova koča, and just a few meters higher we step onto the ridge, which we reach at the saddle Čez Suho.
At the mentioned saddle, we leave the marked path and continue the ascent to the left along an unmarked trail that climbs the ridge of Rušni vrh. The steepness quickly eases, and the increasingly panoramic path brings us after 5 minutes of walking from the point where we left the blazes to the little-visited summit.

On the way: Sveti Lenart (Bača pri Podbrdu) (751m), Vrh Bače (1273m), Kobla (1498m), Čez Suho (1760m)