Rutarski gozd - Rodica

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 crossroads. 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 hairpin turns follow, at the third or second left a marked path from Stržišče joins us from the right, and from here onwards we pay attention to possible parking along the road, because driving from the next crossroads onwards is forbidden.

Path description:
From the parking lot we continue on the macadam road, then quickly arrive at an unmarked intersection, where we continue on the upper right road, beside which there is a barrier and a traffic sign that prohibits further driving. Further on we ascend steeply on the increasingly poor road which slowly turns into a wide mostly rocky cart track, passing a hunting observatory and soon bringing us to a junction, where we continue right in the direction of Rodica (straight to mountain pasture Razor). Further we ascend on a relatively well-preserved mule track, first through the forest, then through dwarf pines. Moderately steep and increasingly scenic path, then crosses a few gullies and gets closer and closer to the summit (Jehlc), which we have been seeing in front of us for some time. When the path gets very close to the aforementioned summit, it turns right and then ascends the southern slopes of Rodica. Higher up the path turns west again and brings us to a side ridge of the Lower Bohinj Mountains, from where a nice view opens towards Kneške Ravne. The path soon leaves the ridge for the southern slopes, which we then follow to the point where we join the path from the Bohinj side. We continue right on the panoramic ridge path, which brings us to the panoramic summit in a good 10 minutes of further walking.

Trip can be extended to: Črna prst , Suha Rodica (Novi vrh) ( 45 min) , Mali Raskovec (1 h) , Raskovec (1 h)