Planina Polog - Rdeči rob (via Prehodci)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Tolmin, from there we follow the road in the direction of Zatolmin (main road we leave at the traffic light). In Zatolmin we notice signposts for Javorca, which point us on an ascending road towards Javorca. Occasionally quite narrow and in parts precipitous road after approximately 8 km of driving brings us to a smaller crossroad, where the road towards Javorca branches off to the left upwards. We continue straight, and we follow the road only for approximately 100 meters and then on an appropriate place by the gate we also park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a macadam road (road is closed for public traffic), and after few minutes of easy walking it brings us to the main part of the mountain pasture, where there are few cottages. After the mountain pasture, the road becomes even a little worse, and after few minutes of additional walking brings us to a crossing, where the path branches off to the right towards the mountain pasture Planina na Prodih (access to the mountain pasture is very interesting, because we have to cross the river Tolminka, and this is done by a manual cableway). We continue straight, and the road finally changes into a cart track and higher into a well-preserved mule track. After that, the path becomes a little steeper and past two benches and higher a rockfall (earthquake in Posočje 1998) brings us to a grazing fence, over which we step on the southern edge of the mountain pasture Planina pod Osojnico. Only few meters ahead the path splits into two parts. We continue on the right bottom path, on which in a gentle descent, we quickly get to the hunting cottage at the source of Tolminka.
From the source of Tolminka we continue a gentle ascent through the mountain pasture Planina pod Osojnico, and from the left soon joins the upper path, which is exposed to active rockfall.
We continue in the direction of "Planina Prode and Prehodci" on the path which brings us to a mighty torrent. We cross a torrent and on the other side, we continue left in the direction of Prehodci (slightly right mountain pasture Dobrenjščica). Further, we are gently ascending on a well preserved military mule track, which we can few times leave because the marked path runs on "shortcuts". Higher bushes and grass is slowly replaced by gravel, and the path is turning more and more to the left. A little higher, we again come to a mighty torrent gully, which is here already joining with nearby scree, which are falling from the nearby Mali and Veliki Kuntar.
Here to the left through a mighty torrent an unmarked path branches off which leads towards the mountain pasture Lašca and ahead on Rdeči rob and Mali peski, and we continue right on a marked path, which gradually passes into a dense forest. Mule track is then ascending in numerous zig-zags and for some time still runs through the forest. Higher the forest gets thinner, and the path is turning more and more towards the right, where it brings us to panoramic and steep slopes. Over wide carved ledge we get help from a steel cable, which comes in handy in time, when on the ledge is still snow (snowless the passage is undemanding). The path ahead once again moderately ascends and in few minutes brings us to a marked crossing on Prehodci.
We continue left in the direction of Krn (right saddle Bogatinsko sedlo and mountain pasture Razor) and we continue on a gently sloping and panoramic path. A little further from the right joins another path from the lake Krnsko jezero, and we still continue in the same direction. The path ahead from the plateau terrain again brings us on a steep east slopes, from which a nice view opens up on Tolmin side (area is called Na Tminskem). After that, the path turns a little to the right and gradually brings us in smaller high mountain valley. Here it starts ascending steeper and after approximately 20 minutes of additional walking brings us to a large monument to fallen in the 1st world war.
At the mentioned monument marked path turns sharply to the right, and right on this spot we leave it and we continue on a small footpath which starts descending between monument and Mali Peski (peak on the right). Worse beaten, but easy to follow footpath quickly descends by the foot of Mali Peski, where we step on long scree, over which we diagonally descend on the other side, where by the foot of the Škofič joins the path (old mule track) from the mountain pasture Lašca. Here we continue right upwards and on a well visible, but entirely overgrown mule track we are ascending on slopes of the already mentioned Škofič. Ahead we are for some time gently ascending on a mule track, after that, when it gets the most close to south, we leave it and we continue the ascent on pathless terrain (direction of ascent is southwest), so that we reach the ridge between Škofič and Rdeči rob. When we reach the ridge, we continue left on at first gently sloping path, to which from the right almost unnoticeably joins the path over grassy ramp, which comes from the mountain pasture Leskovica or Sleme. The path ahead steeply ascends by the edge of precipitous ridge and in 3 minutes of additional walking brings us on Rdeči rob.
We can descend on a shorter path via mountain pasture Lašca.
Planina Polog - source of Tolminka 1:00, source of Tolminka - Planina na Zgornjih Prodih 0:30, Planina na Zgornjih Prodih - Prehodci 2:20, Prehodci - Mali Peski 1:10, Mali Peski - Rdeči rob 1:00.

On the way: Source of Tolminka (695m), Planina na Zgornjih Prodih (850m), Prehodci (1639m)