Vrtinjlogarski graben / Val Bartolo - Veliki Kopinj / Kapinberg / Monte Capin di Ponente (over saddle Kot / Sella Canton)

Access to the starting point:
Via Border crossing Rateče, or via Border crossing Predel, drive to Trbiz / Tarvisio, then continue in the direction of the ski resort Svete Višarje / Monte Lussari. When Trbiz ends, from the roundabout behind the Eurospar store, take the exit towards Frogs / Camporosso and Valcanale, then immediately right towards the village. After the underpass under the railway go left, then follow the signs for Vrtinjlogarski graben / Val Bartolo. After the village, the asphalt ends and the road leads into the valley mentioned above, after which you climb up the usually fairly well-maintained dirt road, which you follow until you reach the place where you see the mountain signs for the 509 trail, which leads to the Angle Saddle / Sella Canton. Park at a suitable place on the roadside.

Path description:
From the starting point, follow the path towards the Kot / Sella Canton saddle, where you will immediately reach the old mulatier, which you will start to climb. The mulatier is mostly through the forest, with only a short break in the forest at higher altitudes, where you cross a short steep slope and a torrential stream. After about an hour's walk, the path becomes a little more gentle and turns into a small valley, which leads up to the Kot saddle, where there is a marked crossroads and, at the crossroads, a large bell dating from 1926.
From the saddle, where we join the two paths from Trbiz / Tarvisio and the forest road from Kokovo / Coccau, we continue in the direction of Gorjanski vrh / Monte Goriane and continue along the worse macadam road, which then climbs mostly crosswise to the right, and in between we have a few nice views of Julian Alps, and higher up in the direction of Ojstrnik. The way ahead leads us along the south-west ridge of Veliki Kopinj for a while, after which the path, which continues gently along the wide grassy cart track, turns slightly to the right and bypasses the above-mentioned peak on the right. Once back on the ridge, a marked crossroads is reached, and we continue left on the path towards the Vrtinjlogarski sedlo (Bartolosattel (straight Gorjanska planina and Gorjanski vrh)).
The path climbs steeply along the border ridge between Itali and Austria, but when the marked path turns right just below Veliki Kopinj, we continue straight ahead and follow the unmarked path to the nearby summit, which continues along the state border. From the point where we leave the marked trail, the forest quickly thins out and we reach the summit in two to three minutes.
Starting point - saddle Kot 1:10, saddle Kot - Veliki Kopinj 1:05.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (May).

On the way: Sedlo Kot / Sella Canton (1413m)

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