Planina Polog - Velika Montura

Access to the starting point:
First, go to Tolmin, and from there follow the road in the direction of Zatolmin (leave the main road at the traffic lights). In Zatolmin, you will see the mountain signs for Javorca, which will direct you to the ascending road towards Javorca. After about 8 km of driving, the sometimes quite narrow and sometimes precipitous road leads us to a small crossroads where the road to Javorca branches off to the left upwards. We continue straight ahead, following the road for only about 100 m, where we then park at a suitable place next to the ramp.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue along the macadam road, which is closed to public traffic, and in a few minutes' easy walk you will reach the central part of mountain pasture Polog, where there are a few huts.
After mountain pasture, the road gets a little worse, but after a few minutes of further walking, it leads to a crossroads where the path to mountain pasture to Prodih branches off to the right (the access to mountain pasture is very interesting, as you have to cross the river Tolmin, which is facilitated by a hand-carried cable car). Continue straight ahead, and the road eventually turns into cart track and higher up into a well-preserved mulatier. The path after this becomes a little steeper and leads past two benches and a fresh rock peak higher up (earthquake in Posočje 1998) to a grazing fence, over which we enter the southern edge of mountain pasture below Osojnica. Just a few metres further on, the path forks and we continue along the lower right path, which descends gently to the hunting hut at the spring Tolmin.
From the spring Tolmin we continue our ascent over the mountain pasture below Osojnica, and the upper path, which is exposed to an active rocky peak, soon joins us from the left.
Continue in the direction of "Planina Prode in Prehodci" along the path which leads to a mighty torrent. Cross the torrent and on the other side continue left in the direction of Prehodci (slightly to the right, the Dobrenjščica mountain). Continue climbing along the well-preserved military causeway, which you can leave a few times, as the marked path runs along "shortcuts". The taller bushes and grass are slowly replaced by rubble, and the path turns more and more to the left. A little higher, we reach the mighty torrential ravine again, but here it already meets the nearby scree, which falls from the nearby Maly and Veliki Kuntar.
Here, an unmarked path branches off to the left across a mighty torrent, leading to mountain pasture Lašča and on to Rdeči rob and Male peske, while we continue to the right along a marked path that gradually turns into a dense forest. The mulatiera then climbs in numerous serpentines and continues through the forest for some time. As the forest thins out, the path turns increasingly to the right, where it leads to steep slopes and views. A small, wide artificial ledge helps us to cross, but it comes in handy when there is still snow on the ledge (the crossing is easy on land). The path continues to climb moderately once more and leads us in a few minutes to a marked crossroads at Prehodcih. At the crossroads, continue to the right after the markings "Dom na Komni" and "Cottage at mountain pasture Razor" (Krn and Dom pri Krnskih jezeri on the left). The trail then turns slightly to the right and mostly follows dwarf pines. The relatively gentle path, which offers beautiful views towards Bogatin and Mahavščko, then leads to a well-marked crossroads. Here we continue to the left, following the signs Dom na Komni, and to the right the path leads to the Cottage on mountain pasture Razor. The path then descends gently and leads to the valley Za Lepočami, where you will see a number of buildings built by the Italians between the two wars to serve the needs of the belaying Rapallo border.
From the crossroads, the path climbs slightly steeper at first, then becomes more level and leads to the place where you leave the marked path.
Leave the marked trail when a nice passage opens up to your left, and there is usually a small cairn next to the place or slightly to the left in the grass where you leave the markings. At first, we walk across a grassy area, where we catch a path that leads us, with the help of cairns, towards an unmarked valley located between Velika Montura and kota 1919, situated slightly to the right of the Great Montura. Once the valley is reached, the track becomes steeper and climbs up to the saddle between the two peaks.
From the saddle, go left (right Velika Baba and Lanževica) to reach the old mulatier by the ruins. After the mulatier, cross the slopes to the right, and the path then descends slightly (it is possible to leave the mulatier at this point and climb to the summit on an easier trackless path). After a short descent, you reach the crossroads of the old mulatiers, and you continue up to the left (the lower mulatier reaches the marked path Lepena - Velika Baba). Continue up the path to the left (the lower mulatier reaches the marked path Lepena - Velika Baba).
There is a few minutes of ascent, mostly to the right, before reaching an indistinct ridge where the mulatier first turns left and then off to the slightly steeper western slopes. As the slope flattens out, we see the old Italian fortifications from the time of the Rappal border on the left, and we pass three dilapidated buildings to climb to the nearby viewpoint of the summit of the Great Montura. Planina Polog - spring Tolmin 1:00, spring Tolmin - planina na Zgornje Prodih 0:30, planina na Zgornje Prodih - Prehodci 2:20, Prehodci - Za Lepočami 0:30, Za Lepočami - Velika Montura 1:15.

On the way: The Tolminka spring (695m), Planina na Zgornjih Prodih (850m), Prehodci (1639m), Za Lepočami (1608m)

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