Dolina Krma - Rjavina (ridge path)

Access to starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Hrušica exit and continue along the road towards Kranjska Gora. Just before the village of Dovje, a road branches left from the main road leading to Mojstrana (Vrata, Kot and Krma). Continue following the road towards the village of Radovna and the Krma and Kot valleys. The relatively steep road then takes us past the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and brings us to a junction where a gravel road to the Kot valley branches right. Continue straight along the road, which starts to descend. Midway through the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches right (straight ahead Radovna). A little further, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then brings us to Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then takes us to the parking lot in front of the barrier.
b) Drive to Kranjska Gora, then continue driving towards Jesenice. At Dovje, leave the main road and continue right towards Mojstrana and the Vrata, Kot and Krma valleys, following the signs for Krma at the subsequent junctions. The relatively steep road then takes us past the TNP sign, after which the road soon levels out and brings us to a junction where a gravel road to the Kot valley branches right. Continue straight along the road, which starts to descend. Midway through the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches right (straight ahead Radovna). A little further, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards Krma. The gravel road then brings us to Kovinarska koča, which we continue to follow. The occasionally somewhat rougher road then takes us to the parking lot in front of the barrier.

Path description:
From the last parking lot in the Krma Valley, called Pri lesi, we continue along the rougher road that continues up the valley and soon brings us to a clearing where we bypass the nearby building on the left. We continue along the gravel path which approaches the torrent and crosses it slightly further on. On the other side of the torrent the path enters the forest and first ascends gently, then quite steeply for a while. Higher we leave the forest for the belt of dwarf pines and shrubs, and from the path beautiful views open onto the nearby walls of the peaks which descend more gently towards Pokljuka on the other side.
Higher, at an altitude of just over 1400 m, the path temporarily levels out and brings us to the beautiful grassy plain Vrtača.
After the grassy section the path starts ascending again along an often quite slippery path on this section, leveling out on the plain Malo polje.
Here the path turns right and forks.
To the left the path to Bohinjska vratca and Vodnikov dom on Velem polju branches off, we continue straight and easily along the foot of Vernar to the spring with trough.
After the trough the path forks, we continue straight on the marked path (left unmarked shortcut to planina Zgornja Krma). There follows some moderate, higher up somewhat steeper ascent through sparse, partly larch forest. Higher the path turns left and levels out, and from the left the aforementioned shortcut joins.
After the merging of both paths we quickly reach the shepherd's hut on planina Zgornja Krma, called Prgarca.
From here the path continues in moderate ascent towards the west and brings us to the last spring along the path, above the spring the path forks again.
To the left the path continues over Kurica leading to Konjsko sedlo and further to Dom Planika pod Triglavom, we go right onto the path leading further towards Kredarica and Staničev dom.
Just a few steps further the "old path" to Kredarica branches left from the normal path to Kredarica.
Here by the path are the only signs for Kredarica in this direction, we continue straight on the gentle marked path along which there are no signs for Kredarica (september 2025), which a few minutes further brings us to the marked junction where the paths to Kredarica and Staničev dom separate.
The path ahead leads through partly grassy terrain called Murava, later we ascend transversely through increasingly sparse, mostly larch forest. Higher the path gradually levels out and brings us to the lower part of Kravja dolina, where first from the right an unmarked path joins leading past the hunting hut Zgornja Krma, a little higher to the right also an unmarked path branches leading towards the central part of Kravja dolina and further to Veliki Pršivec, remains of the plane from WWII and Rjavina via Temeno, we continue to follow the well-trodden marked path which passes into increasingly rocky terrain.
When we have already ascended above 2000 m above sea level, somewhere in the area called Pungrt, we quite unobtrusively cross the PP path (Planica - Pokljuka trail), briefly continue along the little valley between Rž on the left and Rjavina on the right, then cross to the slopes of Rjavina where we ascend transversely over scree. Below Dovška vratca, where the shortcut to Rjavina leads, the marked path turns left.
Continuing we ascend moderately towards the Rž massif where we can observe the natural window, window in Rž, higher the path becomes steeper and from the left a marked but quite rarely visited path from Konjsko sedlo joins.
We continue right in the direction of Triglav and Staničev dom along a gradually easier path which brings us to the junction at the start of the ridge leading towards Dovška vratca and further towards Rjavina.
We head right towards Rjavina (straight down Triglav, Staničev dom, Vrata, Kot...) and begin descending along the panoramic ridge. We descend for quite some time, losing approximately 100 elevation meters, at Dovška vratca we stop descending.
Here the previously mentioned shortcut joins from the right, which shortens the path by approximately 40 minutes, we continue straight and begin steeply ascending the western slopes of Rjavina where upon looking back a nice view of Triglav opens up. From the steep slope with the aid of some safety equipment we reach the western ridge of Rjavina, we continue with exceptional views towards the western subpeak or Mali Rjavina (2530 m).
There follows some descent and from the left the climbing path from Kot valley joins.
We continue straight and quickly reach a chimney down which we descend vertically for approximately 30 elevation meters, during the descent numerous pegs and staples assist us, no fixed cable. After the mentioned very demanding passage the path becomes less demanding and past two natural windows, through one of which a really nice view of Škrlatica opens, we quickly reach the summit of Rjavina.
Krma - Zgornja Krma 2:30, Zgornja Krma - Ravnica pod Ržjo 2:30, Ravnica pod Ržjo - Dovška vratca 0:20, Dovška vratca - Mala Rjavina 1:00, Mala Rjavina - Rjavina 0:25.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Malo polje (1585m), Planina Zgornja Krma (1720m), Murava (1790m), Kravja dolina (1905m), Pungrt (2118m), Apnenica (2337m), Ravnica pod Ržjo (2371m), Dovška vratca (2267m), Mala Rjavina (2530m), Okno v Rjavini (2492m)