Tolminske Ravne - Javor (above Tolminske Ravne)
Starting point: Tolminske Ravne (924 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2294°N 13.7715°E
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 439 m
Altitude difference (by path): 439 m
Map: Julijske Alpe - zahodni del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to Tolmin, and then we continue driving in the direction of Žabče and Zadlaz (turn-off from the main road is located on the left bank of Tolminka). When we get to Žabče, at the smaller crossroad we continue slightly right in the direction of the settlement Zadlaz. In the settlement Zadlaz-Žabče the road for some time descends, where we over a bridge crosses Zadlaščica, and then again starts ascending steeply on narrow, but all the time asphalt road. After approximately 12 km from the main road we get to the marked parking lot in Tolminske Ravne, where we park.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we return few steps back to red mountain signposts, which we follow in the direction of the mountain hut Koča na planini Razor and mountain pasture Planina Kal. The path ahead at first leads over a grazing fence, and then we continue on a cart track which continues through a meadow, and from there a nice view opens up on Tolminski Migovec. Cart track soon turns right and it brings us to a rocky fence, where it splits into two parts.
We continue on the left upper cart track in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu (slightly right mountain hut Koča na planini Razor), which is then ascending gently. A little higher, at the older water storage we continue right, and then we cross a torrent. We soon get to the next crossing, where we continue left in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina na Kalu and Tolminski Migovec. An old mule track further for some time continues by or a little right from the nearby torrent, and then avoids it more to the right. At the spot, where mule track goes away from the torrent by the path usually stands a smaller cairn, where we continue left on a well-beaten footpath which still continues by the torrent. The path ahead leads us relatively steeply upwards, and in doing so occasionally gets very close to a riverbed of a torrent, so that on some spots a little more caution is needed, but those spots we can also avoid, because slope right from the gully is easily passable. Higher the torrent becomes less distinct, and when we almost step out of the forest, the footpath splits into two parts, and we continue on the right, which brings us to the saddle between the peak Javor on the left and Grušnica on the right.
On the saddle, we also reach a marked path Čadrg - Planina na Kalu, and we continue left, at first on easier pathless terrain on at first an indistinct ridge of the peak Javor, where right from the dwarf pines again appears a footpath. We follow this footpath all the way to a few minutes distant peak, from which a nice view opens up.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2016 (April).
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