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We didn't plan exactly such a path as we walked, but never mind. It will be an additional reason to repeat the path.
We parked in Gozd Martuljek and headed along the Sava Dolinka past the camp and hotel Špik, then turned right at the first bridge. We returned from there too, but on a different path. We continued past the Smolej homestead, Jurež, crossed quite a few clearings, bridges. Return again along the Sava Dolinka, with intermediate views of its gravel beds.
Almost the entire path we admired the view of the snowy Špik group, to which was added the view of Mojstrovke with Kumleh, Ponce, Jalovec with Slemenova špica, Prisojnik also appeared later. The hike at this time offers views also of blooming trees, in short, beautiful, as the goal of the trip in this case is the path, not the peaks.

At Jurež I asked for the path to Jurežev slap, but the owner assured me that the path no longer exists, and at the same time said that the dog up there is no longer there. So now passing by up there can be without worry. I remember that it wasn't like that before.

We went along this ridge yesterday, about which you can actually find nothing written. It caught our eye during our previous visit to the Pokljuka Gorge, when we were driving to the starting point and also later when we asked a local about it. On the map we saw two peak names, namely besides Kočevnik (838 m) also Srednji vrh (892 m), for which the local didn't even know that such a name exists. He said that they know it entirely as Kočevnik, so I named it that way too. The ridge is also known for Šimnova Cave, and the hike that the villagers organize every year is called exactly Šimnov Hike.

We really liked the ridge, lush, with a really pleasant path, a bit rocky, a bit up and a bit down, the views from it rise to the snow-covered peaks above Pokljuka, you can also see to Triglav. After crossing, we continued towards the village of Perniki, turned left before it and walked along the lower side of the ridge. We also went to the banks of the Radovna River, and admired its beautiful flowing water. Thus we did a circular tour, and at the same time wondered why we didn't meet a single hiker on the path. This happens to us quite often .

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Must go on
Which waterfall or waterfalls?

O, nice! Marked or unmarked?

We chose the parking lot a little above Kočiška planina as our starting point, which I think is quite rare for hikers, even though the asphalt road goes right there. Most choose Brška planina as the starting point. It was our first time and we knew nothing about these mountains.
But we knew that we wanted to do a circular tour, which is always the best option. First we climbed to Dolska planina, walked across it and at the end turned left and continued towards the pasture below Poludnik, which lies at an altitude of about 1700 m and there the cows were already grazing. I must admit that I prefer pastures without them, but the sight of horses always makes me happy and it was the same this time. We climbed to the top via the NE ridge, and descended on the opposite side via Poludnik saddle towards Brško jezero aka Egger-See, where you simply have to make a short stop, as the place is truly idyllic, and the most beautiful is the view across the lake towards Poludnik. We continued again via Dolska planina back to the starting point.

Yes, Poludnik is truly a beautiful destination, even though we didn't get to know it during the time of golden larches, but green larches can also create a wonderful surroundings. Maybe we'll return there

Maybe one more interesting fact, we drove 115 km from our area, while driving to Egger-Alm would have been around 140 km.

They have just announced at CAI Friuli Venezia Giulia that there was a landslide (rockfall) on the Via della Vita path and that the path is closed until they check it for safety.

Matej, next time you have to take into account that here riddles must not be from abroad

There is strength in numbers

This is really a Kranj guy, please continue so we can see your riddles too

yes, it's from this valley. But the peak has a name

garmont, we didn't complain about the path at all, quite the opposite.
Given that I had a rather bad memory of it (boring, long, tedious), I was now amazed at its orderliness or the newly routed parts of the path.
One part of the path that was completely closed by a landslide is now routed in a different direction. Maybe once we had to go over a fallen tree, but there were no problems. There was no mention of closure and even the hiker who climbed it told on Konj that there were no problems with traceability and she didn't know anything about the closure.
Well, only once by a fallen tree we wondered where to go next, but we found a way through, we just had to look a little. A few more pictures from the path from Presedljaj down

Yes, it goes forward
Which one is it?

Really, definitely a good idea! You see quite a lot of the world

VP-Planina Dol-Rzenik-Konj-Presedljaj-KB

Yesterday after long, but really long years on this tour, with the difference that the summit Rzenik was also added, which was omitted in the past.
First we descended from V.planine to Pl.Dol, from there continued towards Planina Rzenik with Mlakar's hut, which offers the greatest interest to the mountain pasture. At home I found out that the little house is named after the writer Janko Mlakar, who entertained us in many mountaineering books and died already in 1953. Continued on the western path to the top of Rzenik, descended on the eastern path again to the marked path and further towards Konj. We returned on the rocky ridge to Presedljaj, where a little lower a spring under Vežica, which I guess always flows, cheered us up. The heat yesterday did its thing.
In the valley, views first on the white riverbed of Kamniška Bela, later details of its turquoise water cheered us.
It is also very interesting that on our path there accumulated 1700 m of descent, but our knees served us quite well.

Thanks Tomco, the information might come in handy