The Krma Valley - Mali Triglav (via Kredarica)

Access to starting point:
Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Hrušica exit and follow the road towards Kranjska Gora. Just before the village of Dovje, a road branches off to the left from the main road leading to Mojstrana (Vrata, Kot and Krma). Continue following the road towards the village of Radovna and the Krma and Kot valleys. The fairly steep road then takes us past the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and brings us to a junction where a gravel road branches off to the right into the Kot valley. Continue straight ahead on the road, which begins to descend. In the middle of the descent, the road into the Krma valley branches off to the right (straight ahead to Radovna). A little further on we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then brings us to the Kovinarska koča, but we follow it further. The occasionally somewhat poorer road then brings us to the parking lot in front of the barrier.

Path description:
From the last parking lot in the Krma Valley, called Pri lesi, we continue on the rougher road that continues through the valley and soon brings us to a clearing where we go around the nearby building on the left. We continue on the gravel path that approaches the torrent and crosses it shortly afterwards. On the other side of the torrent, the path enters the forest and ascends first gently, then quite steeply for some time. Higher up, we leave the forest for the belt of dwarf pines and shrubs, and beautiful views open up from the path to the nearby walls of the peaks that descend more gently towards Pokljuka on the other side.
Higher, at an altitude of just over 1400 m, the path temporarily levels out and takes us to the beautiful grassy plain of Vrtača.
After the grassy section, the path starts ascending again along a path that is often quite slippery here, leveling out at the plain Malo polje.
Here the path turns right and splits.
To the left, the path to Bohinjska vrata and Vodnikov dom on Velem polju branches off; we continue straight ahead and easily proceed along the foot of Vernar to the spring with a trough.
After the trough, the path splits; we continue straight on the marked path (left is an unmarked shortcut to planina Zgornja Krma). This is followed by some moderate ascent, higher up somewhat steeper, through sparse partly larch forest. Higher the path turns left and levels out, and the aforementioned shortcut joins from the left.
After the junction of both paths, we quickly reach the shepherd's hut on planina Zgornja Krma, called Prgarca.
From here the path continues with moderate ascent towards the west, bringing us to the last spring along the path; above the spring, the path splits again.
To the left continues the path over Kurica leading to Konjsko sedlo and further to Dom Planika pod Triglavom; we go right onto the path leading towards Kredarica and Staničev dom.
Just a few steps further, the "old path" to Kredarica branches left from the usual path to Kredarica.
Here are the only signs for Kredarica in this direction along the path; we continue straight on the easy marked path along which there are no signs for Kredarica (September 2025), which takes us a few minutes later to the marked junction where the paths to Kredarica and Staničev dom separate.
Here we go left towards Triglavski dom na Kredarici and Triglav (straight to Dom Valentina Staniča) and first steeply ascend above the Murava plain, then gradually reach the torrent valley called Ulice.
A little further, at Vrh Ulic, the aforementioned quite steep "old path" joins from the left; one more minute further, slightly left from the path to Kredarica, the path to Konjsko sedlo branches off (this is the longer variant avoiding the steep ascent over Kurica); we continue slightly right on the better-trodden path.
The path ahead ascends moderately for a short time mostly towards the northwest, i.e., towards the walls of Vrh Snežne konte.
On this section we cross the path Konjsko sedlo - Dom Valentina Staniča; we continue straight and enter the steep screes of Kalvarija. Here we ascend steeply in a few zigzags on increasingly panoramic slopes.
When higher up the path temporarily flattens somewhat, we join the path from Pokljuka leading past Vodnikov dom on Velem polju and over Konjsko sedlo; we continue slightly right towards Kredarica and Triglav. A few minutes further when the path flattens even more, the path past Snežna konta and over Štapce towards Dom Planika pod Triglavom branches left; we continue right, first quite easily, then ascending to the ridge above Vrh Snežne konte, the summit of which we viewed from below during the ascent over Kalvarija.
Here the path becomes steeper again; we follow it all the way to Triglavski dom na Kredarici.
In front of the hut, at the chapel of Marija Snežna, the path from Kot valley joins from the right, leading past Dom Valentina Staniča; we continue along the left side of the hut, and behind the hut the path from Vrata valley joins from the right, namely the paths over Prag and Tominškova pot.
We continue left towards Triglav and descend on a technically still undemanding path to Ledeniški preval, from where we start ascending towards the wall of Mali Triglav. Here we follow the blazes and the large blaze visible from afar, near which the very demanding path to Triglav begins.
Initially we ascend a not yet very steep slope with the aid of some pegs and individual fixed ropes; when we reach the wall of Mali Triglav, we begin traversing upwards to the left, where fixed ropes were added to the pegs a few years ago to allow self-belaying with a via ferrata kit. This is followed by some quite steep and exposed sections where we must watch not to slip; on the part with loose stones, we must also be careful not to dislodge rocks as this can be deadly for hikers below. The path ahead is quite narrow, and with a large number of visitors, queues can form due to difficult passing.
Higher the steepness eases, and from the left the path from Dom Planika pod Triglavom joins, namely the path over Mali Triglav, which we reach shortly afterwards.
Krma - Zgornja Krma 2:30, Zgornja Krma - Kredarica 2:30, Kredarica - Ledeniški preval 0:05, Ledeniški preval - Mali Triglav 0:35.
The description refers to the conditions in September 2025; the images are from various periods.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Malo polje (1585m), Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m), Triglavski dom na Kredarici (2515m), Ledeniški preval (2484m)