Valbruna - Jof di Miezegnot/Poldašnja špica (via Planina Ravne)

Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Rateče or Predel we drive to Trbiž / Tarvisio, and then we continue driving on the old road towards Videm / Udine. And we soon notice signs "Valbruna", which point us to the left on a local road, on which past old cableway on Višarje we get to Ovčja vas / Valbruna. At the crossroad, where we join the road from the village Ukve / Ugovizza, we go left and we continue driving only few 100 meters or to the spot, where we notice signs for the chapel Zita / Cappella Zita. We park on an appropriate place near mountain signposts.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a worse road in the direction of "Malga Rauna, Cap. Zita" (path 607). The road at first gently, and then starts ascending steeper in numerous zig-zags. Higher, we can on the left side of the road notice nice waterfall, and the road here flattens and a little further brings us in Koroški kot. A little further, the road turns to the right, and blazes point us slightly left on a steep footpath which higher few more times crosses the mentioned road. The marked path higher again continues on the road, and we walk there all the way to the mountain pasture Planina Ravna, on which there is a smaller bivouac. From the bivouac, we continue on a marked path, on which in few 10 strides of additional walking, we get to the chapel Zita.
A little above the chapel marked path goes into the forest, where after few minutes of walking joins the path which comes from Planina Strehica.
Here we continue left in the direction of "Jof di Miezegnot" and we continue the ascent on the path which gradually passes on less vegetated slopes. The path ahead runs on an old military mule track, by which we can see some ruins and caverns. Higher, the path turns to the right, where for a short time entirely flattens, and then gradually passes on partly grassy slopes, on which it starts ascending steeper. The increasingly panoramic path, higher crosses some smaller gullies, and then turns right and it ascends over very steep grassy slope. The path soon flattens, and then in traverse ascends over the next steep slope. On the top of the mentioned ascent we step on a ridge, from which a nice view opens up on the main chain of western Julian Alps. The path is ahead at first gently, after that relatively steeply descending towards the notch east from Poldašnja špica. From the notch, we continue on the ridge and then the path turns slightly to the right into a steep and crumbly gully. Through gully we diagonally ascend on ruined and for slipping dangerous path (passage is demanding), we then gradually pass over on grassy slopes, on which we ascend to the next gully (here we will just before the entrance into a gully, on the right side notice two old grenades from the 1st world war). Ascent through the gully we make almost straight upwards and then the path again brings us on the ridge.
Here we continue here right (possible also straight, both paths soon join) on a relatively steep path, on which we quickly get to numerous military bunkers. A little poorly marked path then leads us by the ridge and higher starts ascending steeply on rugged rocks. Next follows a diagonal ascent towards the left on a relatively steep slope (dangerous for slipping), and then the path once again steeply ascends and it brings us to the next bunker. Here we continue left and on a gentle ridge path we quickly ascend to the summit.

On the way: Planina Ravna (1515m)