The Krma Valley - Teme

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, and we follow it further. Occasionally a little rough road then brings us to a parking lot in front of the gate.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road past the gate to extensive deposits of gravel. Next follows few minutes of easy walking on gravel to a marked but sometimes poorly visible crossing. Walking path continues straight, and blazes point us to the right over a torrent into the forest, where the path starts slightly ascending. Only after approximately 40 minutes of walking, the path becomes steeper, but not that much. A moderately steep path at the altitude of 1300m brings us out of the forest into dwarf pines. Here nice views are starting to open up on the nearby walls of peaks above Krma. Ascent doesn't last long, because the path soon descends for few meters and brings us on nice plain Vrtača. The walk through a nice grassy plain is very pleasant and panoramic. And on the other side, the path again starts ascending, this time through a thin forest. This ascent also doesn't last long, it gets interrupted by plain Malo polje, where the path turns right. Next follows moderately steep ascent past a trough with water to the mountain pasture Zgornja Krma, where there stands a shepherd hut.
Only few minutes above the mountain pasture, the path brings us to a crossing at a well. We continue right in the direction of Kredarica and Staničev dom (left Planika). A gently sloping path after few minutes of additional walking brings us to the next crossing, where we continue straight in the direction of the mountain hut Staničev dom (left Kredarica). We continue almost horizontal on the path which crosses a lane of thin larch forest. After that, the path passes out of the forest on panoramic slopes and turns a little to the left. At this spot, where the marked path turns to the left, we leave it and we continue the ascent on an unmarked footpath which is ascending through smaller indistinct valley (turn off is at an altitude of approximately 2000 meters). The path through this small valley runs through dwarf pine and is only slightly ascending. The footpath is becoming poorly visible and towards the end of the valley completely vanishes. Here we turn to the left towards Rjavina and after a short ascent, we will get to a grassy slope, where we notice remains of a bomber from second world war. We continue to the right on the lower scree to the entrance into a little more demanding crossing towards Teme. Demanding part is very short, but quite some caution is needed, because on the path, there is quite a lot of gravel. Then follows a short crossing on quite steep grassy slope and a descent to Teme.

On the way: Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m)

Trip can be extended to: Rjavina (1 h)