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So that false news do not spread, Aljaž Tower was no black construction at all! Jakob Aljaž bought the plot on top of Triglav for that purpose and erected the tower on his own land.

Road from Ljubinja to planina Stador and Podkuk during the week occasionally closed due to renovation. See the schedule on the photo.
Currently very nice on Kobilja glava. No heat yet, not overgrown either.

For starters you could start using the correct name: Vrh LabrjA.

This year I was up there three times - always on weekends, always closed. Why it is so, the local told me, and I wrote that.
Let's hope they can open soon.

Hut on Velika Poljana is closed. As a local mountaineer told me, the previous caretaker sadly passed away. Whoever wants to eat or drink something should go to nearby Mala Poljana, where the hut is already open. Anyway, best to do a circular tour over both pastures. Both paths from Goriče (to Mala and Velika Poljana) are completely cleared.

Does anyone know where to get the Prestreljenik stamp? I'm not really a stamp collector, but at home I've had an ancient SPP logbook for five years missing only this one, I'd like to finish it. No stamp at the top (was there ever?), in the station D buffet as we can read two pages back, nor there either, since we know what happened to the ski resort.
Maybe in the tourist office in Bovec?

Will Koča Petra Skalarja even be open this year? And the gondola, will it run in summer?

Vladika, small correction: not Turška, but Turska gora.

Yesterday I was on Bašeljski vrh. Below Kališče the path is very smooth, so I recommend microspikes.

Between Rudno polje and Krma the key difference is that return to Rudno polje is murderously drawn out. So for my taste Krma is better starting point

Slavc, Uncle Google finds whatever you want!
One link to start:
GPS-Tour.info

I personally belong to those who carry GPS device mainly for archiving routes. I don't say I never use it, but I make sure such cases are as rare as possible. Walking in the mountains with eyes fixed on the electronic box repels me. Like eating plastic food. Part of the experience in the mountains, especially on pathless terrain, which of course includes ski touring, is also finding the right path with your own head!

I assume - same as Sivka in Polhograjsko hribovje - after sivka grass.

I'm wondering who allowed putting a cross on Krnčica? I thought there was a general consensus that summits shouldn't be littered with new and new "ornaments". Especially not ideological or religious ones. For God's sake, let at least some summit remain "natural"...

"LidijaJesih
6.5.2012 Almost repeated your tour, Savinjčan, only the loop was bigger because I don't know that gorge. So I was condemned to walking back along the road, but it wasn't hard. A friendly local explained to me that this abandoned marked path exists..."
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Lidija, hi! Unlike you, I tried to find the path and followed it without major problems even though it was my first time there. From the forest road below Zajčeva hut (NW direction) the path branches downhill after about 50 meters at the first bend. The little path is solidly trodden in the upper half, then after crossing the forest road it worsens, but there are no orientation dilemmas, just continue in the same direction. The high steep stream bank guides you exactly to the place where the stream crosses a wide forest road. Go left up along it to the nearby bend (probably one can also descend nicely along this forest road), then turn onto the side ledge. After 50 m on it you spot the first old mark pointing downhill toward the well-visible step of the former path, which suddenly appears out of nowhere. Ahead is a relatively short hike through the "wild" gully, giving the feeling of being far from civilization. On sections where the path is still preserved, we walk above the left bank of the stream, elsewhere along the bottom of the gully, beside the interesting stream full of waterfalls, potholes and rocky chutes. Finally we reach a nice forest road that brings us to the left to the road exactly at the edge of the forest behind Ojstrica.

For experienced hikers who enjoy spicing their tour with a bit of off-trail. Otherwise, orientation is not difficult at all, since you can't miss the gully between the hills.