Dolina Krma - Šmarjetna glava

Access to the starting point:
Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Hrušica exit and follow the road towards Kranjska Gora. Just before the village of Dovje, the road branches off to the left and leads to Mojstrana (Vrata, Kot and Krma). Follow the road in the direction of the village of Radovna and the valleys of Krma and Kot. The relatively steep road then takes us past the TNP signboard, after which the road soon lays down and leads us to a crossroads where the macadam road to the valley of Kot branches off to the right. Continue straight ahead on the road, which begins to descend. In the middle of the descent, the road to the Krma valley branches off to the right (straight ahead Radovna). A little further on, you come to the next crossroads, where you continue to the right in the direction of Krma. The macadam road then leads to Kovinarska hut, and we follow it further. Occasionally, a slightly worse road then leads us to the parking lot in front of the gate.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road past the gate to the extensive gravel deposits. A few minutes of easy walking on the gravel follows to a marked but sometimes harder to see crossroads. The footpath continues straight ahead, but signs point us right across the stream into the wods, where the path begins to climb gently. Only after about 40 minutes of walking does the path become steeper, but not to steep. At 1300m, the moderately steep path leads us out of the forest between dwarf pines. Here we start to get beautiful views of the nearby walls of the peaks above the Krma. The climb does not take long, however, as the path soon drops by a few metres and leads us to the beautiful mountain Vrtača. The walk across the beautiful grassy plain is very pleasant and scenic. On the other side, the path starts climbing again, this time through a rare forest. This climb does not last long either, and is interrupted by the Malo polje plain, where the trail crosses.
Continue left towards Vodnikov dom (Planika and Kredarica on the right) along the path, which quickly begins to climb, first through a larch forest and then up through scree. The scree path becomes steeper and steeper and is dangerous to slip on in the snow that stays here until mid-summer. The narrowness of the last part of the route to Bohinjska vratca also increases the risk of falling rocks.
From Bohinjska vratca it is only about 15 minutes of descent to Vodnik's house.
At the crossroads near the hut, a signpost directs you left towards the Tržaška hut on Doliču. The path then crosses the scree above Velo polje in a gentle descent and leads into a rare larch forest. Then we cross a wide torrent bed, and the path from Velo Polje joins us on the left.
Continue up the valley, climbing past dwarf pines and rare larch trees. Higher up, when you reach the grassy area below Šmarjetna glava, the path turns left and follows the right side of the valley. The steepness then quickly eases and the increasingly rocky path leads us under the walls and scree of the surrounding peaks to the Dolič saddle.
Continue straight ahead (Hribarice on the left, Planika on the right) along the path, which begins to descend gently towards the Tržaški hut on Dolič.
Shortly before the hut (near the heliport), leave the marked path and head right up the trackless road. Climb up the rocky slope to the ridge from which a view of Šmarjetno glavo opens up. Take the saddle on the left side of Šmarjetna glava. At the saddle, continue right along a steep ridge marked with a few cairns. The ridge becomes a little steeper and a short section requires some easier climbing (1st degree). Just below the summit, where the ridge is steepest, we are directed by the cairns to the right and there is a short climb up a slightly exposed and rubbly slope to the summit.

On the way: Vrtača (1430m), Bohinjska vratca (1979m), Vodnikov dom (1817m), Velo polje (1680m), Dolič (2164m)

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