Mangartska planina - Šober / Monte Sciober Grande (via Stože)

Access to starting point:
From the road Bovec - border crossing Predel we drive on the road in the direction of Mangartsko sedlo, and there we drive to a marked parking lot before Mangartska planina, where we park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go on the left road in the direction of Mangartska planina (straight Mangartsko sedlo), where in few minutes we walk to mountain dairy, where in grazing season it is possible to buy sheep cheese.
Some 10 strides before mountain dairy, on the part where the marked path goes towards "valley" (starting point Pri Mlinču), we continue towards the north on a footpath in the direction of saddle Čez stože (on a sign Čez stožje).
From the mountain pasture path quickly passes into the forest, through which is for some time steeply ascending, and higher gets close to landslide Stože, which in November 2000 slipped into a valley and almost 1000 altitude meters lower buried part of the village Log pod Mangartom. For some time we are ascending by landslide, and then the path passes into a lane of dwarf pines, through which we are with nice views ascending to a saddle Čez stože, where we reach the national border and where from the right joins an unmarked path over Dren.
From the saddle, from where first a view opens up on Šober we continue left, and we pass on the right, Italian side of the ridge. At first, we cross quite steep and mainly in wet for slipping dangerous slope (steep part we can bypass by continuing on the bottom path), and then we are mostly ascending diagonally below the mountain walls of Vršič and side peak Veliki Grintavec. Diagonal ascent ends on notch Vraška škrbina / La Portella, where we join the path from Rabelj / Cave del Predil.
From the notch Vraška škrbina we continue right in the direction of bivouac Cinque Punte, and the path ahead leads us on a very panoramic ridge of the peak Šober, from which a nice view opens up towards Viš, Mangart, Jalovec and other surrounding mountains. The path on the ridge is mostly slightly ascending, only here and there for some time descends a little. After approximately 30 minutes of walking on the ridge we reach the secondary peak of Šober, from which we already clearly see cairn on the nearby main summit. From the secondary peak follows a short descent, and when we are already past main peak, we continue right on an unmarked footpath, on which in a minute steep of walking, we ascend on a panoramic peak (last meters are quite steep).
The starting point - mountain dairy 0:05, mountain dairy - Čez stože 1:15, Čez stože - Vraška škrbina 0:25, Vraška škrbina - Šober 0:35.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (September).

On the way: Čez stože (1731m), Vraška škrbina / La portella (1798m)