Planina Polog - Planina Medrja
Starting point: Planina Polog (457 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2373°N 13.7223°E
Time of walking: 1 h 50 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 676 m
Altitude difference (by path): 676 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
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. Here we turn left and we follow the road for good 100 meters to a marked parking lot.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a concrete road which quickly comes in the forest and starts ascending steeply. After approximately 15 minutes of walking, forest gets thinner, and the road turns sharply to the right. Next follows only few minutes of walking by the edge of pastures and the road brings us to the memorial church of the Holy Spirit on Javorca.
Church we bypass on the left side and we continue on a wide and at first gentle cart track which quickly passes into the forest. Here we can left below us hear roaring of waterfall of the stream Peščak, and we continue on a marked path (cart track), which higher over a bridge crosses the mentioned stream. Further, we are ascending on a moderately steep cart track which ahead runs partly through the forest, and partly through dense bushes and bramble. Higher, we cross one more of numerous grazing fences and the path brings us to the mountain pasture Črča, on which stands few old cottages.
And just before the cottages on the mountain pasture, signs for mountain pastures Sleme, Medrje and Laška seč, point us slightly to the left, where over high grass we ascend to an indistinct ridge, on which runs grazing fence. Further, we are ascending by the grazing fence, and then the path passes into a dense forest, where for a short time steeply ascends to a trough with water. Here the path turns slightly to the right, where after few 10 strides it brings us to the next grazing fence. We cross a grazing fence and we walk to cottages on the mountain pasture Laška seč.
Above the mountain pasture path goes into the forest, and it continues on a wide cart track. A little higher we come out of the forest, and only few meters after we cross a grazing fence we continue left on a poorly visible and poorly marked path. The path higher joins the cart track and only few meters ahead brings us to shepherd cottages on the mountain pasture Medrja.
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