Tinčkova koča - Srednji vrh (above Završnica) (via Zagon)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road ahead in the direction of Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, we will come to an intersection, where the road to Žirovnica and Moste branches off to the right (from the direction of Jesenice, to the left). Just a few meters ahead, at the next intersection, we turn left to Moste (right to Žirovnica). Further on, we drive past the monument to the fallen fighters, where the road starts to climb under the railway track. At the top of the hill, we turn right (at the sign for Vila Karin), but we continue straight towards Završniško jezero and Valvasorjev dom. The road then flattens and brings us to an intersection, where the road to Valvasorjev dom branches off to the left, and we continue straight on the initially still asphalted road. The road soon becomes macadam, and we follow it to the parking lot near Tinčkova koča. The road in the upper part is often in quite bad condition.

Path description:
From the starting point, signs for Valvasorjev dom and Stol direct us left onto a wide cart track that enters the forest. Already after some 10 meters, the marked path towards Valvasorjev dom and Stol turns left, but we continue slightly right along the cart track that leads us past a few more cottages. We continue along the unmarked cart track, which first ascends moderately, higher up relatively steeply through the forest. A little further on, the cart track turns into a forest path, which before crossing the torrent splits into two parts. We continue on the lower right path, which crosses the torrent, then for a few minutes only moderately ascends through the forest. The path soon becomes quite steep and in places somewhat harder to follow. The path through the Zagon valley has several forks in the upper part, and at all of them we choose the right branches (even if at some we continue straight, higher up we join the path leading from the saddle Šija towards Stol, just reaching it further to the west).
Higher, at an altitude of approximately 1500 meters, the path temporarily takes us right into a valley bottom, from which it soon withdraws somewhat to the right. On this section we arrive at yet another less noticeable fork, where we go right again, then traverse upwards with fine views of Stol, Srednja peč and the surrounding mountains. The followable but partly more overgrown path gradually flattens and returns to the torrent valley. For a short time we ascend beside a smaller torrent, then we reach the lower path to Stol.
We follow the mentioned path slightly right to the nearby collapsed concrete hut, from there right in the direction of the saddle Šija and Zelenica. A short ascent follows, then the path turns left and continues traversing up the northwestern slopes of Srednji vrh. After a few minutes the traverse ends, and the path brings us to the saddle Šija, where there is a marked junction.
From the saddle Šija we continue right (left Zelenica, Vrtača and upper path to Stol, straight Dom pri izviru Završnice and Zelenica) and past a small bench we begin to ascend the ridge. For a few minutes we ascend the ridge, which is mainly surrounded on the left by dwarf pines, while on the right there are also occasional unvegetated slopes. Higher up, the path turns somewhat left from the ridge, then ascends through the dwarf pines to the panoramic summit.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2017 (June).

On the way: Šija (1693m)