Rutarski gozd - Mali Raskovec

Access to starting point:
From Podbrdo we drive towards Tolmin or vice versa, but only to the village of Koritnica. In Koritnica we will notice a sign for the village Rut, which directs us right (from Tolmin sharply left). We then follow the mostly ascending road to the mentioned village, where there is also a smaller intersection. We continue straight (left village Grunt) on the road which soon loses its asphalt covering. The wide macadam road quickly ascends above the village and turns right. Three zig-zags follow, at the third or second left from the right also joins the marked path from Stržišče, and from here ahead we pay attention to possible parking by the road, because driving from the next crossroad ahead is forbidden.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a macadam road, and then we quickly arrive at an unmarked intersection, where we continue on the upper right road, by which there is a gate and a traffic sign that prohibits further driving.
After the gate the road starts to ascend more steeply, and then at the next intersection, where a narrower road branches off to the right, we continue straight, and we walk along it to the place where the road narrows or splits into two cart tracks.
We continue on the upper wider cart track, by which there are signs for Rodica. Further on, we ascend transversely for some time on a poor road or cart track, which leads us past the hunting observatory and occasional views of the mountains on the other side of Baška grapa. Higher, a marked path from the village Grant also joins us from the left, some 10 meters further on from the cart track we continue right in the direction of Rodica (straight Koča na planini Razor - path over Hudo stopno).
After the junction named Mladinska koča we start to ascend on a well-preserved mule track, which after a few minutes turns sharply to the left, then for quite some time ascends transversely to the left, first still through the forest, then through dwarf pines. During the transverse ascent the path also leads us over some gullies, and the passages over them are not demanding, since the path is wide all the time. With nice views on Idrijsko and Cerkljansko hribovje, at the right serpentine we approach completely the summit of Jehlc, which we see in front of us all the time during the crossing. At this serpentine a pathless approach to the mentioned summit continues straight ahead (the last part before the ridge is demanding), and we continue on the marked path, which continues further on the mule track. Two serpentines higher an easier approach to the aforementioned summit branches off to the left, and we continue ascending through dwarf pines. A little higher we reach the ridge, which stretches from Jehlc to the main ridge of Spodnje Bohinjske gore, and the path withdraws from it several times, once to the left, another time to the right side. Higher dwarf pines are replaced by grasses and stones, and nicer views open up with every step. A few more serpentines follow, where we ascend over a steeper slope, then the slope flattens and the path brings us to a marked junction, where we join the path from the Bohinj side.
Here we continue right (left Šija, Ski hotel Vogel and Ribčev Laz) and on a moderately steep ridge in a good 10 minutes of further walking we ascend to the 1966 meters high summit of Rodica.
From the summit of Rodica we continue along the ridge in the direction of Črna prst. The path first starts descending along the ridge, then passes to the southern slopes, where just a few meters below the ridge it crosses occasionally quite steep slopes. The very panoramic path at the foot of Suha Rodica (Novi vrh) passes to shady slopes, where it crosses the slopes of the mentioned summit (snow patch that persists until the beginning of summer). When the path returns to the main ridge we leave the marked path and continue left, slightly downhill along the left side of the sinkhole, which we see between both Raskovci. When we approach the dwarf pines we withdraw from it to the right, then we head straight up along the steep grassy slope. After 20 minutes of walking on pathless terrain we step onto the panoramic Mali Raskovec.
Starting point - Rodica 2:30, Rodica - Mali Raskovec 1:00.

On the way: Rodica (1966m)