Jasna - Mojčin dom na Vitrancu (on ridge)
Starting point: Jasna (830 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4753°N 13.7819°E
Path name: on ridge
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 725 m
Altitude difference (by path): 755 m
Map: Kranjska Gora 1:30.000
Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Kranjska Gora, and then we continue driving towards Vršič. Already soon after that, when Kranjska Gora ends, we cross a river Pišnica and only few 10 meters further we turn right on a larger parking lot, where we park by the lake Jasna.
B) We drive into Trenta, and then through mountain pass Vršič we drive towards Kranjska Gora. When we get to the lake Jasna we park on a large macadam parking lot by the lake (parking lot is located on the left side of the main road).
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue few meters back towards Kranjska Gora to a dam at power station, where we go on a footpath which continues horizontal by the river. After few meters, we cross a riverbed and the path ahead brings us into the forest, where already after few meters of ascent we come to a crossing at the bench.
We continue sharply left and the path gets interrupted by the caption, the path to Mala Pišnica CLOSED (zaprta). We continue on this path which starts ascending steeply in zig-zags. When the steepness decreases we come to a crossing, where the path branches off to the left to Mala Pišnica (this path is fenced), and right we follow the sign for Vitranc and Ciprnik. We continue straight upwards on narrower and a little less visible footpath which again steeply ascends. And only few meters ahead, the path brings us to a vantage point, from which a nice view opens up on Martuljek group of mountains. The path then for a short time ascends and then goes right, where with some ascents and descents crosses slopes towards Kranjska Gora ski slope.
When the path in zig-zags again steeply ascends, we get to the next crossing, where a sign "Vitranc-Ciprnik" points us left (straight leads the path towards the scree and further to ski slopes). After the crossing the path very steeply ascends and becomes for some time hard to follow. The steep ascent brings us from forested ground to grassy slopes right below the rocky walls and is still steeply ascending. After some time by the path, we notice wooden arrow, which shows path downwards, on which we came. Few ten meters later steep path goes to the right and still very steep ascent continues on the ridge.
After some time ridge path leads past a rocky gully, which on the right opens a nice view towards Kranjska Gora. Soon after this steepness decreases a little and we come to a crossing, where we can continue on the left path below the ridge or we view the surroundings from the ridge. Both paths ten meters later join, and the steepness of the ridge again increases. Last ten meters of the ascent on the ridge leads through dense dwarf pines, and then the path flattens. Then on the right we notice a column of a cargo cableway, which runs on Vitranc, after few meters of gentle walking we get to a crossroad, where from the left joins the path from Kranjska Gora.
From the crossroad ahead follows around 300 meters of walking on the path which crosses a slope below the mountain hut Dom na Vitrancu. Soon on the right we notice abandoned mountain hut Dom na Vitrancu and few steps ahead also years ago newly opened mountain hut Mojčin dom na Vitrancu.
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