Valbruna - Jof di Miezegnot/Poldašnja špica (via Planina Strehica)

Access to the starting point:
After crossing the Rateče or Predel border crossing, drive to Trbiz / Tarvisio, then continue along the old road to Udine. Soon you will see the signs "Valbruna", which direct you to the left onto the local road, which takes you past the old cable car to Višarje to Ovčje vas / Valbruna. At the crossroads, where the road to the Zajzere shelter branches off to the left, continue to the right towards the village of Ukve / Ugovizza and follow the road for another 200 m to the parking lot under the power line.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road towards Ukva and walk along it for 100 m to a road sign, where you will notice the mountain markings "Forcella Nebria" (Za vrhom in Slovenian), which direct you to the left on the trail No. 608. The trail initially runs along a worse road, which after a few minutes of a steep climb into the wods, and there leads to a marked crossroads, where the trail to the right branches off to the top of Podgorski vrh / Monte Nebria. Continue straight on, initially following cart track, then signs direct you slightly right on a slightly steeper path. Soon we are out of the forest, and the path leads us along a beautifully landscaped canal, which is intended to drain the water from the local ski slope. The path leads to a road higher up, and after a few minutes' further walking, to the Za vrhom / Forcella Nebria pass.
On the pass, the markings are lost due to the construction of a new ski slope, and we continue along the road for a few minutes. After about 5 minutes of descending, you will see a dirt road on the left side of the ski slope, which you will continue to climb. After a good 10 minutes of walking on the worse road, you will reach a torrent, where the road turns right (you can also get here from the path that branches off in the immediate vicinity of the prevala, but this path is completely overgrown).
On the other side of the torrent, the path turns left into the forest and gradually turns into an increasingly steep path with cart track. Continue along the well-marked path, which climbs through the forest in many switchbacks. Higher up, the path transitions, crosses a larger ravine, and then gradually begins to turn more and more to the right. After a few minutes of further ascent, the path is laid and leads us out of the forest to a larger clearing, at the edge of which stands a beautifully decorated house.
Cross the clearing and on the other side come to an unmarked crossroads where you continue straight down the wide cart track. After a short descent, you reach a marked crossroads at Mountain pasture Strehica.
At the crossroads, continue left in the direction of "Jof di Miezegnot" and ascend the partly overgrown cart track, which quickly leads to the upper part of mountain pasture. Here the path turns slightly left and then continues along the edge of the forest. Just a little higher up, cart track turns into a forest, and we follow it slightly left along a marked mountain path for a few steps before it reaches a large gravel area and is lost there. The path first climbs slightly steeper through the forest, then lays down and leads us to a marked crossroads where we join the path with Mountain pasture Ravne. Here, continue to the right in the direction of "Jof di Miezegnot" and continue climbing along the path, which gradually changes to less vegetated slopes. The path continues along an old military causeway, along which you can see some ruins and caverns. Higher up, the path turns to the right, where it lays completely flat for a short time, then gradually changes to partly grassy slopes, over which it begins to climb more steeply. Increasingly scenic, the path crosses a few more small ravines, then turns right and climbs over a very steep grassy slope. The path soon flattens out and then climbs in a switchback over the next steep slope. At the top of this ascent, you reach a ridge with a fine view of the main range of the western Julian Mountains. The way ahead descends first gently, then relatively steeply, towards the notch east of Poldašnje Špica. From the stump, continue along the ridge, then the path turns slightly to the right into a steep and crumbly ravine. Cross the gully and climb the ruined and slippery path (the crossing is difficult), then gradually move to the grassy slopes, over which you climb to the next gully (here, just before entering the gully, you will see two old grenades from WWI on the right). Climb the gully almost straight up, then the path leads you back to the ridge.
Here you continue right (or straight on, the two paths soon merge) along a relatively steep path, which quickly leads you to a number of military bunkers. A slightly less well-marked path then leads us along the ridge and, higher up, starts to climb steeply over the broken rocks. There is a cross-climb to the left over a relatively steep slope (risk of slipping), and then the path climbs steeply once more, leading us to the next bunker. Continue left here and climb quickly to the top along the gently sloping ridge path.

On the way: Za vrhom (942m), Planina Strehica (1359m)

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