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A new short and sweet trip has been added to the collection. Since my roommate renounced writing it up, and there's no thread open on the forum, I'm adding a few lines and pictures.

Between Potok v Črni and Podstudenc lie the Pirčeve ridges, where the excursion starts at the belay on a comfortable logging trail. Soon it turns into a pathlet, and when we find ourselves at the new bench, we take it along the ridgelet leading towards Pirčev vrh. This is a world of many faces, rising steeply and offering the awakening spring in full splendor, along with plenty of tree sculptures. From Pirčev vrh we head towards Ravni hrib, but off-trail already after a few steps reveals that right below us is a path from which cheerful babbling is heard. We quietly retreat and briskly take it through thickets to the western end of Sušav, where lunch quickly disappears, and consequently the belly purrs contentedly like a pampered kitten. Lounging despite the warm sun doesn't last long, and we're already walking west along the ridgelet of Ravni hrib. Just before the westernmost grassy patch, the moment is livened up by a roe deer that was too fast to capture on photo. Then we turn downhill slightly towards sv. Primož. No path, grasses very dry and very steep. The world is primordially enchanting and the trees particularly comfortable (picture 18). After joining the marked path, we turn towards the gully that descends like a disheveled-furious ditch towards Potok v Črni. We follow the traverse pathlet for a while, but since we probably missed the branch that should lead into the gully, we go by nose again and explore a few more exceptional corners, and in the end while crossing the western slope of Pirčev vrh we also amuse ourselves with a bear.

This world offers quite a bit more exploration material and invites a return visit.

After morning coffee quickly from Zadnjica to Log and above the museum along the Gmajna path. When the latter turns right and starts descending, we continue straight and soon join the markings through Trebiški dol. We hadn't quite gotten used to them yet when we already leave them at the spot where the first little path turns left. We follow it to planina Trebiščina. From there onwards it's more feeling around until suddenly a mulatjera appears along which we reach the kasarne. Next we step onto Velika glava (quite some scree; I've heard several times it's impassable but somehow we got from one side to the other over the top ), then continue directly to Veliki Konj (scree can mostly be avoided and quite decently approached) and descend to the other side along the ridge leading to Ozebnik. From it the ridge continuation is locally crumbly and exposed. Ascent from the saddle to 'Nad Kopiščarji glave' above Ozebniška planina is easy while the view to Veliki Vršovec reveals the same as Google Earth - sea of scree. We return across the planina to the Konj-Ozebnik ridge and along the path descend to saddle Čez dol then a bit along local shortcut and a bit across reach the road under Utor. Continuation to start would be quite uninteresting if we hadn't detoured to Pinja waterfall and only then hurried to the deserved strudel - thanks for the treat, strudel was divine.

Nice hike to say goodbye to winter

It came as ordered, Gep's post indeed (must be under some other title) and I headed to the same area on a slightly modified variant.
In Draga, the parking lot around half past seven was still quite empty. I strode along the white road and continued on the path towards Preval. When I reached it, the first visitors were already refreshing themselves in the hut, but I quickly "zviz" to the right to Potočnikova planina, where I turned left into a quite steep slope. First through the forest, then a short time dancing with the scrub, and when I finally reached the open ground, I stood frozen with a snake's lair almost at my nose. Reason says the lair is old, the snake probably hasn't been there for a long time, but my heart beat faster, legs were like springs, poles pounding the ground as if performing a special circus act. I breathed a little easier only when there were no more tall grasses, which happened right below the ridge, along which with beautiful views I reached the markers again and along them to the quite crowded summit. The descent towards Roblek and onwards passed quickly, and so I was already driving home early in the afternoon.

Hi, how happy I am with these words, not because of the congratulations, although I thank you nicely for them, but because I hope for some new j.'s adventure.

A trip to Pirčev vrh three weeks ago sparked my desire to return to these steep slopes. After returning home, I sat down in front of the map and sketched out where to go next. I didn't dare hope for company, since my housemate had already been on the ridge of Krvava peč. That he was interested for the second time gave additional hope for an interesting tour. The little ridge offered some harder passages and beautiful views.
On the former marked path, we ended up right below Pirčeva planina and strolled along the "stubble four-lane" to the passage in the fence, which took us down from the gentle and safe Mala planina into the mad world of ragged and steep slopes overgrown with forest and grasses. The latter are still quite dry at this time of year and serve as poor holds, requiring unwavering faith that you can do everything "on your feet" (like on slabs) and if that doesn't work, that even dry grass blades hold and withstand your weight.
At first, on Curli, we caught some very trodden path that soon disappeared. Then we encountered here and there some little cairns in the form of "one stone on a rock," and when those vanished and the terrain became less forgiving in terms of orientation and technically, we were each captain of our own ship—one wanted to go higher, the other lower. In the end, we navigated the stormy sea and even caught obvious remnants of the path several times.
When we turned uphill before Skledčka, the real challenges of Velika planina finally revealed themselves, but we overcame those too with the help of stubbornness and sneaked back from solitude among the livestock that was enjoying its day among the gentians.
The descent was merely a formality that, due to its ease, nicely concluded the day.

First time I parked here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy9YmZDm7syoTiki6 and walked along the sidewalk to the start of the ridge.
You can also ask if they allow you to park in front of the inn: https://maps.app.goo.gl/eWCaVWjo66soRjsB7; in that case, you have a minute to the path leading to the start of the ridge. A few steps past the inn, you turn into the street, pass three houses and a garden (on the left side), and then at the end of the asphalt (if they haven't extended it in the meantime) left up the hill.

Pirč's world is interesting and I myself have already started planning one of the next trips .
The direct descent was not carried out because I wanted to go again along the little ridge to the place where I once turned to the other side before, that is to Konjska Valley. Maybe the last few photos from the link can help: https://www.hribi.net/trenutne_razmere/slo/velika_planina_-_konjska_dolina/3/928

Magical world of mosses... nice

Sincere congratulations for the brave ascent. The universal scree of Devil's Gully is for the rare ones...

After a looong time, Begunjščica happened at the last minute...
It was a bit shorter, but no less sweet, foggy and slippery.

Thanks for the post. This approach has been "bugging" me for a while.

For the little bag of wishes
I hope the pain and swelling from the wasp sting have subsided.

I've been heading to Velska dolina since... well, forever, but since it's full of markers and crowds, I always skillfully avoid it. When I finally step into it yesterday, I can't believe how all kinds of tourists overlook it. Among the autumn conifers, I promise myself I'll come back in autumn (well, just didn't specify which autumn the larches below the wall of Mišelj vrh-Mišelj konec will shower me with golden needles ). Where the marked path turns right at the end of the valley, I go straight across the rocky flower carpet and then a bit up the scree until I reach the clear junction to Mišeljski konec. From there on it's all harder as the sun's already baking mercilessly. I don't linger at the top but continue along the ridge to Na Nizkem. For that ridge bulge, I wanted to find a passage to the valley, but no need to bother as you just go and go. Once in between I couldn't locate a snake, which at this altitude can only be a viper, so I kicked it onto the scree and slid down it enjoyably for a while in a light skid. In Mišeljska dolina I run into enjoyers who had descended from Mišelj vrh on the same path as me. We exchange a word or two, then back to the embrace of silence when suddenly muuuuu; first group of cows, then another with a bull in the middle. Right at the edge I hurry so almost plunge into the bushes and breathe a sigh of relief when they stay back there somewhere. Soon I treat myself to a snack and thus meet the enjoyers for the second time. Third was at the spring, a bit above planina Na Jezercu. I too stop briskly and down half a liter in one go, take twice as much with me, which was a very wise decision as the bottles are almost empty by the parking lot.

Some enjoy it already on Monday ... and that's right

Congratulations

Thanks. Your post about marmots was the trigger for it to happen.