Tolminske Ravne - Grušnica (via planina na Kalu)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Tolmin, and then we continue driving in the direction of Žabče and Zadlaz (turn-off from the main road is located on the left bank of Tolminka). When we get to Žabče, at the smaller crossroad we continue slightly right in the direction of the settlement Zadlaz. In the settlement Zadlaz-Žabče the road for some time descends, where we over a bridge crosses Zadlaščica, and then again starts ascending steeply on narrow, but all the time asphalt road. After approximately 12 km from the main road we get to the marked parking lot in Tolminske Ravne, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return few steps back to red mountain signposts, which we follow in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na planini Razor and mountain pasture Planina Kal. The path ahead at first leads over a grazing fence, and then we continue on a cart track which continues through a meadow, and from there a nice view opens up on Tolminski Migovec. Cart track soon turns right and it brings us to a rocky fence, where it splits into two parts.
We continue on the left upper cart track in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu (slightly right mountain hut Koča na planini Razor), which is then ascending gently. A little higher, at the older water storage we continue right, and then we cross a torrent. We soon get to the next crossing, where we continue left in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu and Tolminski Migovec. An old mule track further for some time continues by or a little right from the nearby torrent, and then at the smaller cairn from a mule track, the path which continues by a torrent branches off slightly to the left and leads further towards the saddle between the peak Javor on the left and Grušnica on the right, and we still stick to mule track.
Higher, we reach the next marked crossing, where another path branches off to the right towards the mountain pasture Razor, and we continue left and we short time continue in only gentle ascent. A minute or two ahead we leave the gentle path and we continue slightly right in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu (straight we get to the before mentioned saddle, from which we can continue on Javor or in the village Čadrg, and meanwhile there is another turn-off towards the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu). After a shorter little steeper ascent we return on a mule track, where we also join the path from Čadrga.
We continue right and we are ascending on a mule track all the way to the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu, where right from a small saddle stand some old cottages.
From the saddle, from where a nice view opens up towards the valley of Tolminka, Vrh nad Peski, and a view is also nice on peaks above Tolminske Ravne, which we occasionally already saw during the ascent, we continue slightly left from the ridge of Grušnica, on easy to follow path. After a shorter diagonal ascent we reach the eastern ridge of Grušnica, from where a nice view opens up towards the south. Here the path turns a little to the right, and then in few minutes of more and more panoramic walking it brings us on a panoramic peak, from which a nice view opens up on surrounding mountains.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2016 (April).

On the way: Planina na Kalu (1490m)