Nomenj - Koča na Soriški planini (via Planina Strmne)

Access to the starting point:
a) Take the Bled, from where you continue driving towards Bohinj. Before Bohinjska Bistrica, at Nomenj, where there is a bus station, a railway station and the Inn pri Matičku, the route described above starts. There are no suitable parking places at the starting point.
b) Drive to Bohinjska Bistrica and then continue to Bled. Before Bled, at Nomenj, where there is a bus station, a railway station and the Inn pri Matičku along the main road, the route described starts. There are no suitable parking places at the starting point.

Path description:
From the Inn at Matičku, continue towards the Grmečica waterfall, where the path initially leads parallel to the main road, but walk along a worse macadam road. Soon you will pass right through an underpass under the railway line, and then take another right in the direction of Grmečica waterfall and Ema's blast furnace. Continue along the dirt road, which leads you across the pastures to the former parking area, nowadays parking is only allowed with a permit for fishermen and canyoning users.
From the parking lot, continue along the macadam road, which quickly leads to a footbridge over the Sava Bohinjka river. After the bridge, turn left towards the Emin blast furnace (right Grmečica waterfall) and walk along the dirt road to the nearby Emin blast furnace, where there is an information board.
Cross the wooden bridge to the restored ruins of the blast furnace, then follow cart track in the direction of the Plavžarica spring (the signpost points slightly too far to the right). In the following, initially climb up the left side of the Plavžarica, cross it at a higher level and continue the climb along the left bank for a short time, but before the spring the path retreats more to the right, where at the triangular crossroads of the kolovozov, choose the one that is climbing. There are a few more forks, and we follow the "main" logging trail, which ascends to a forest road, which we follow to the right in the direction of Nemški Rovt (if we continue to the left we can reach Bitenjska planina and further on to Ratitovec). Continue along the macadam road for some time, and after crossing the usually dry Grmecica river, continue straight ahead from the crossroads. When you reach the asphalt road, go left (right Nemški Rovt) and follow it to the first left turn, from which you continue slightly right on the track that climbs along the ravine. The track disappears as it reaches the bottom of the valley, and is overgrown by lush vegetation higher up. Before the slightly steeper valley drop, on the left we see a path which climbs out of the ravine and, after a short crossing, leads us to another path which we follow upwards to the right, so that we are walking above the 'bed' of the ravine or valley. Above the steep part that caused the path to leave the valley, we return to the valley, but the windstorm in December 2017 makes it virtually impossible to continue on the old path. Climbing over fallen trees and crawling under them, keep straight ahead or slightly left, and soon you will reach the newer logging trail, which was created when the fallen trees were cleared. Follow the logging trail slightly to the right at the crossroads, and once you reach the dirt road, go right again (if you continue left on the dirt road, you will return to the asphalt road). The dirt road quickly splits, and we take the left path (here we would have entered a wider road if the old path had been traceable, which is impassable due to fallen trees). The road then leads us through the vast mountain pasture of Strmna, where we reach the marked path Bohinjska Bistrica - Soriška mountain pasture.
A few steps further leave the road and continue left in the direction of Soriška planina (straight Orožnova koča), the path leads us along a moderately steep hayfield. After the small cottage, the path enters the forest, through which it climbs moderately to occasionally steeply, and higher up you cross another forest road. The marked path, along which there are mainly older markings, then leads us along a high-voltage power line, along which we climb for a while, and then cross a road leading to the Vrh Bače prevala. At this point, the path turns into a small valley, and we climb easily up to the main road, which we follow to a large parking lot at the foot of Soriška planina, where there is also a bufe Brunarica.
After the information signs, turn right and in a few minutes you will reach the Litostrojska hut on Soriška mountain pasture.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (May).

On the way: Planina Strmne (935m), Bohinjski preval (1280m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Vrh Bače, Planina Za Črno goro, Kobla, Krevl, Dravh, Lajnar, Šavnik, Slatnik (jugovzhodni vrh), Možic, Slatnik (severozahodni vrh), Rušni vrh, Črna prst

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