Kovinarska koča v Krmi - Debela peč (hunting path)
Starting point: Kovinarska koča v Krmi (870 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4004°N 13.923°E
Path name: hunting path
Time of walking: 3 h 45 min
Difficulty: very difficult pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: very demanding
Altitude difference: 1144 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1175 m
Map: Triglav 1:25 000
Access to starting point:
We leave Gorenjska highway at exit Hrušica and follow the road ahead in the direction of Kranjska Gora. Just a little before the village Dovje the road which goes to Mojstrana (Vrata, Kot and Krma) branches off to the left. We follow the road ahead in the direction of village Radovna and the valleys Krma and Kot. The relatively steep road then runs past the sign TNP, behind which the road soon flattens and it brings us to a crossroad, where a macadam road into a valley Kot branches off to the right. We continue straight on the road which starts descending. In the middle of the descent, a road into a valley Krma branches off to the right (straight Radovna). A little further, we come to the next crossing, where we continue right in the direction of Krma. Macadam road then brings us to the mountain hut Kovinarska koča. We park on the settled parking lot in front of the mountain hut.
Path description:
Behind the mountain hut starts hunting footpath. The path is winding straight upwards on the right bank of gully below Debela peč. At first, the path runs parallel with gully, and later it goes a little more right and is winding in zig-zags on a forested broad ridge. We stick to the most beaten path. The path flattens a little, follows crossing of a riverbed, on the left cairn point us ahead on the riverbed, and then left on the path. Hunting path makes long turn to the left and then we again cross a riverbed. A view opens up on the northern wall of Debela peč. The path is winding among dwarf pines and grass and higher it gets very close a wall. At the wall the path turns to the right (towards the east). The path runs parallel with a wall. When we come to trees path few times rises and descends. We soon notice parallel path about twenty meters below us right before wider gully in front of us. On badly beaten footpath we descend downwards to lower path. Continuation on the upper path is quite more demanding - at the crossing of next gully. On bottom path we cross two gullies and we continue on the path to the main gully. The path here almost vanishes, only here and there are still traces. In front of us on the left we see water, which flows over a jump. We walk by a wall, poor path we catch a little more to the right. On easiest passages we come to scree with dispersed boulders. We go upwards slightly left, we get help from some cairns. Higher, we come below a jump and we climb over. First jump is the most difficult (grade II). Above the jump gully flattens a little, follows a walk on a crumbly gravel gully, easier climbing and twice climbing over a jump. Rock is crumbly. Above the last jump gully spreads. We go a little more to the left, on gravel we reach broken rocky slope. At first, we get some help from cairns,later we intuitively go on easiest passages (we are avoiding dwarf pines). Soon we notice a marked path. When we come to path we turn left. We follow the marked path 20 more minutes to the top of Debela peč.
Pictures:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20