The Krma Valley - Visoka Vrbanova špica

Access to starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Hrušica exit and continue following 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 on the road, which starts to descend. In the middle of the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches off to the right (straight to Radovna). A little further on, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then takes us to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat poorer road then takes us to the parking lot in front of the barrier.
b) Drive to Kranjska Gora, then continue driving towards Jesenice. At Dovje, leave the main road and continue right towards Mojstrana and the Vrata, Kot and Krma valleys, and at the following junctions follow the signs for Krma. 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 on the road, which starts to descend. In the middle of the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches off to the right (straight to Radovna). A little further on, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then takes us to the Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat poorer road then takes 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 poorer road that continues up the valley and soon brings us to a clearing, where we bypass the nearby building on the left side. We continue on the gravel path, which approaches a torrent and crosses it a little further on. On the other side of the torrent, the path enters the forest and first ascends gently, then quite steeply for some time. Higher up, we leave the forest and enter the belt of dwarf pines and shrubs, and from the path we have beautiful views of the nearby walls of the peaks, which descend more gently towards Pokljuka on the other side.
Higher up, 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 begins to ascend again along a path that is often quite slippery in this section, leveling out on the plain of Malo polje.
Here the path turns right and forks.
To the left, the path branches off towards Bohinjska vrata and Vodnikov dom on Velem polju, while we continue straight and easily continue along the foot of Vernar to the spring with a trough.
After the trough, the path forks again, but we continue straight on the marked path (left is an unmarked shortcut to planina Zgornja Krma). There follows some moderate ascent, higher up somewhat steeper, through sparse, partly larch forest. Higher up, the path turns left and levels out, and from the left the aforementioned shortcut joins us.
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 a moderate ascent towards the west and takes us to the last spring along the path; above the spring, the path forks again.
To the left continues the path over Kurica, leading to Konjsko sedlo and further towards Dom Planika pod Triglavom, while we go right onto the path leading further towards Kredarica and Staničev dom.
Just a few steps further, the "old path" to Kredarica branches off to the left from the usual path to Kredarica.
Here are the only signs for Kredarica in this direction along the path, but we continue straight on the gentle marked path, which has no signs for Kredarica (September 2025), which takes us a few minutes further to a marked junction where the paths to Kredarica and Staničev dom separate.
The path ahead takes us through the partly grassy area called Murava, later we ascend transversely through increasingly sparse, mostly larch forest. Higher up, the path gradually levels out and takes us to the lower part of Kravja dolina, where first an unmarked path joins us from the right, leading past the hunting hut Zgornja Krma; a little higher, another unmarked path branches off to the right, leading towards the central part of Kravja dolina and further towards Veliki Pršivec, the remains of a plane from World War II, and Rjavina via Temeno; we continue to follow the well-trodden marked path, which transitions into increasingly rocky terrain.
Once we have ascended above 2000 meters above sea level, somewhere in the area called Pungrt, we unobtrusively cross the PP trail (Planica - Pokljuka trail), continue briefly along the valley between Rž on the left and Rjavina on the right, then move to the slopes of Rjavina, where we ascend transversely over scree. Below Dovški vratci, where a shortcut to Rjavina leads, the marked path turns left.
Continuing, we ascend moderately towards the Rž massif, where we can observe the natural window, the window in Rž; higher up, the path becomes steeper and from the left joins the marked but rather rarely visited path from Konjsko sedlo.
We continue right towards Triglav and Staničev dom, along a gradually gentler path that takes us to a junction at the beginning of the ridge leading towards Dovška vratca and further to Rjavina.
Here, a marked path to Rjavina also branches off to the right, while we begin to descend gradually towards the more plateau-like terrain around Dom Valentina Staniča pod Triglavom.
Lower down, the path levels out and from the next junction we continue straight towards the nearby mountain hut.
From the hut, we continue straight towards Begunjski vrh, Visoka Vrbanova špica and Cmir. The fairly gentle path takes us already after a few minutes of further walking to Begunjski preval, where the path to Vrbanove špice branches off to the right. The increasingly scenic and relatively easy path then takes us in a few minutes to the summit of Visoka Vrbanova špica.
Krma - Zgornja Krma 2:30, Zgornja Krma - Staničev dom 2:45, Staničev dom - Visoka Vrbanova špica 20 minutes.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Malo polje (1585m), Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m), Murava (1790m), Kravja dolina (1905m), Pungrt (2118m), Apnenica (2337m), Ravnica pod Ržjo (2371m), Dom Valentina Staniča (2332m), Begunjska vratca (2342m)