Koča pri Savici - Krn (via Prehodci)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce and follow the road towards Bled and forward towards Bohinjska Bistrica. We continue driving towards the lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where we come to a crossroad, where we continue straight on the left (south) side of the lake in the direction of Ukanc and waterfall Savica. This more and more narrow road, we then follow to a large parking lot at the mountain hut Savica. The parking lot is payable.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a wide footpath in the direction of waterfall Savica and Dom na Komni. After a short gentle ascent the path already brings us to a marked crossing where the tourist path towards the waterfall Savica branches off to the right, we continue slightly left or straight on a wide footpath in the direction of Komna. The path ahead is for a short time still ascending by Savica, and then it brings us on the first of 48 marked hairpin turns. After an hour and a half of a moderate ascent through the forest, the path brings us to the mentioned 48th hairpin turn, from which a beautiful view opens up on lake Bohinj. Here the path turns a little to the right and passes into a valley named Pekel, where for some time it is ascending gently, and then turns to the right and it ascends a little steeper again. Already after few 10 strides the path turns left again and is then ascending parallel with the valley. Further, gentle to moderately steep path, gradually passes into a more thin forest, from which we can soon see the mountain hut Dom na Komni. The path ahead leads us past a smaller artificial cave, and higher also past a natural abyss, which is fenced, so that the hikers don't fall in it. Further, the path ascends a little steeper and after few steps of additional walking brings us to a crossing, where the path towards the lake Črno jezero branches off to the right.
We continue straight on a wide path (mule track), which only a little higher brings us to the next crossing. We again continue left (right mountain hut Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih) on a path, which ascends even a little steeper and after few minutes of additional walking brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Komni.
From the hut, we continue right (left Vogel, Tolminski Kuk and mountain pasture Govnjač) on a marked path in the direction of the mountain hut Koča pod Bogatinom. Further, pleasant and entirely gentle path, in 15 minutes of walking, it brings us to Planina na Kraju, in the middle of which stands a mountain hut Koča pod Bogatinom.
On the other side of the mountain pasture, the path towards the mountain pasture Planina za Skalo branches off to the right, and we continue straight on a wide mule track in the direction of saddle Bogatinsko sedlo and Krn. The path ahead ascends diagonally over relatively steep slopes of Srednji vrh, and in doing so on the right side bypasses valley of Gracija. Further, the path ascends quite towards the left, where it gets very close to the steep slopes of Bogatin. Next follows only a turn to the right and the path brings us on a saddle Bogatinsko sedlo, from which a nice view opens up on Krn.
On the saddle, we continue straight in the direction of Krn and lake Krnsko jezero (left Bogatin and Mahavšček, right Lanževica) on the path which starts gradually descending. The path which runs on an old military mule track, already after few minutes of descent brings us on slopes, which are partly covered with dwarf pines. Even a little lower we get to the next crossing, where we leave the path which leads towards the lake Krnsko jezero and we continue left in the direction of Prehodci.
We continue through a small valley Za Lepočami, where we will notice quite a lot of buildings, which Italians built between the both wars for the purpose of protecting Rapallo border. We continue on a panoramic path, and a little ahead it joins the path which leads from Prehodci towards the mountain hut Koča na planini Razor. We follow the mentioned path to the right, and there descend to a marked crossing on Prehodci.
We continue straight in the direction of Krn (left downwards mountain pasture Polog) and we continue on a gently sloping and panoramic path. A little further from the right joins another path from the lake Krnsko jezero, and we still continue in the same direction. The path ahead from the plateau terrain brings us on a steep east slopes, from which a nice view opens up on Tolmin side (area is called Na Tminskem). After that, the path turns a little to the right and gradually brings us in smaller high mountain valley. Here it starts ascending steeper and after approximately 20 minutes of additional walking brings us to a large monument to fallen in the 1st world war.
Here we continue right on a marked path, which ascends diagonally by the foot of Mali Peski. Higher, the path brings us to numerous remains of the 1st world war, and then it slightly ascends and brings us on a small saddle between Mali Peski and Vrh nad Peski (and a little more to the right are Veliki Peski). We continue on a marked path, from which soon unmarked path on Vrh nad Peski branches off to the right, and we continue straight and mentioned peak we bypass over the scree on its south side. After a shorter traversing, we come on Prag, where joins the path from the lake Jezero v Lužnici.
On Prag, where there is a marked crossing, we continue straight in the direction of Batognica (left downwards lake Jezero v Lužnici, right downwards lake Krnsko jezero) on the path which is moderately ascending on the upper slope of Batognica. Then we follow the path with beautiful views to the top, we reach the top in 15 minutes of additional walking.
From Batognica we continue on at first a little poorly visible path which continues on the left side of the peak. The path which is at first only slightly descending, soon brings us on steeper terrain, where we start steeply descending. After a short descent, we come to relatively steep stairs, on which we start steeply descending. On this part because of the gravel on the path, there is a great risk of slipping. The path ahead gradually flattens and only a little further brings us on notch Krnska škrbina (to the notch we can also come if on Prag we continue on the so-called Northern path, which bypasses the peak Batognica the latter is a little shorter, but also less panoramic).
From the notch, we continue straight (left mountain pasture Planina Kuhinja, right lake Krnsko jezero) on the path which starts ascending on a grassy slope of the mountain. We follow this scenic path to the top which we reach after approximately 30 minutes of walking from Krnska škrbina.

On the way: Dom na Komni mountain hut (1520m), Koča pod Bogatinom mountain hut (1513m), Bogatinsko sedlo (1803m), Prehodci (1639m), Prag (2068m), Batognica (2164m), Krnska škrbina (2058m)