Krn - Mrzli vrh above Planina Pretovč

Access to starting point:
A) From the road Tolmin - Kobarid, a little before Idrsko road in the village Kamno branches off to the right. We go on the mentioned road, after we get to the village, we follow the signs for Vrsno. From Vrsno, where there stands the birth house of Simon Gregorčič, we continue on a narrow and steep road to the village Krn, where the road splits into two parts. To the left the road continues towards the mountain pasture Kuhinja, and we continue straight towards Mrzli vrh. We park above the last houses in the village, where there is nicely settled a smaller parking lot, where there is enough space for 4 to 5 cars.
B) We drive to Kobarid, and then we continue driving towards Drežnica. Immediately after the bridge over the river Soča, we turn right in the direction of village Ladra, Smast, Libušnje, Vrsno and Krn. When we get to the village Krn, we continue straight (left mountain pasture Planina Kuhinja), and we follow still narrow road to a smaller settled parking lot, which is located above the last houses in the village.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road by which we've parked, and already after few steps it splits into two parts. We continue straight in the direction of Mrzli vrh and we continue on at first still wide cart track which gradually passes into a dense forest. Higher, the signs for Pretovč, Mrzli vrh and cave Puščavnikova jama point us to the left on a wide ascending footpath which quickly joins less beaten path from the mountain pasture Kuhinja. The footpath soon turns to the right and then it is ascending diagonally through the forest. A little further, we get to cave Puščavnikova jama, to which we have only few 10 strides of walking from the marked path.
We continue over occasionally a little thinner forest, and a moderately steep path brings us to a forest road which we follow to the right. Next follows a short descent on the road to a marked crossing on a smaller saddle, where we continue right in the direction of Mrzli vrh. The path ahead leads us past the information board, behind which we quickly get to shepherd cottages on the mountain pasture Pretovč.
From the mountain pasture Pretovč we continue on a marked path in the direction of Mrzli vrh. From the shepherd hut path ascends on a panoramic grassy ridge, after that a little higher turns to the left, where it crosses a short rough slope. Further through low bushes and with nice views on surroundings we quickly ascend to an old Austrian cavern, where today there is nicely settled smaller memorial park. If we have a lamp we can view also interior of two caverns, and in one of them is situated also well preserved altar.
From memory park we continue left and through a lane of a forest we diagonally ascend towards the left. When we step out of the forest, we cross also a short little steeper grassy slope, and then the path turns to the right and brings us on the main ridge of Mrzli vrh, on which we ascend in few minutes to panoramic peak.

On the way: Planina Pretovč (1260m)