Zelenci - Visoka peč

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Jesenice - west (Hrušica), then continue driving in the direction of Kranjska Gora and then towards Rateče. 300 m before the Zelenci cafeteria, you will see a large gravel parking lot on the left, where you park.
b) Drive to Rateče and then continue towards Kranjska Gora. Soon you will see a parking lot on the right next to the Zelenci cafeteria, where you park.

Path description:
At the parking lot, you will see signs for walking path 12, which leads you slightly downhill to a wooden bridge over the Zelenec River. Here, with a beautiful view of the Ponce ridge, cross the young Sava Dolinka river, then climb gently up to the nearby cycle path. Follow the road to the left for a few metres and then reach the winter parking area at the westernmost double chair of the Kranjska Gora (Velika dolina) ski resort. From the winter parking lot, walk past the trestle in 10 steps to the bottom station of the aforementioned cable car, and from there continue right along the macadam road. The dirt road quickly splits into two parts, and we follow it to the left at the crossroads, which opens up a nice view towards Ponce, by the Velika dolina ski resort. We continue up the increasingly narrow and deteriorating dirt road, which gradually turns into a rough cart track. Higher up, the rough cart track turns right and slightly downhill to a nearby torrent, but we leave it at this point and continue along the old, partly overgrown cart track, which continues to climb alongside the ski slope.
Just 10 m before the ski slope turns left towards the upper station of the Velika dolina (Velika dolina) double chair lift, our less visible cart track turns right into a torrential ravine. Here, on the other side of the torrent, we find the continuation of cart track, which then climbs transversely to the right. After a few minutes of traversing, the slope flattens out and cart track turns left and continues along and around the edge of a broad and indistinct ridge. After a few minutes, when the old cart track, still barely traceable, turns to the right, leave it and continue straight up a well-transitioned trackless climb.
From here onwards, you may occasionally see something trail-like, but otherwise you're climbing along a relatively easy potholed world the whole time. The relatively steep potholed 'path' takes just over 30 minutes, and then the slope flattens out a little and leads to a ridge where we join the marked path from Planica.
When you reach the trail, follow it to the left, and it will lead you along the edge of the sometimes precipitous and scenic ridge. Higher up, the path returns to the forest, where it climbs steeply for a while, and then leads to the main ridge Ciprnik, where it joins the path from Vitranec. Here, continue right and climb for some time through the forest, through which beautiful views increasingly open up. The forest is soon replaced by dwarf pines, and the path gradually changes to quite steep slopes, which are also slightly exposed in some places. Follow this quite steep path in the last part, then, with a view of the surrounding peaks, all the way to the lookout peak, which is reached after a few minutes of further walking.
From Ciprnik we have a beautiful view of the mountains above the valleys of both Pišnics and of course an outstanding view of the nearby Jalovec and the other mountains above Tamar, and we continue towards Visoka peč, the peak visible on our side of Tamar if we look towards the Ponce ridge.
At the top we find a path between dwarf pines which, with the help of many cairns, leads us along the west side of Ciprnik, first moderately and then steeply downwards. The path quickly flattens out and then climbs to a lookout head between Ciprnik and the High Furnace. From the head, from which we have a good view of our objective for the day, the descent follows again, and then the path, which mostly follows the burnt dwarf pines, leads to the last saddle below the summit. There is some moderate climbing, then the path stands upright and climbs very steeply for a few minutes. Higher up, the path flattens out a little, then quickly leads to a scenic and relatively rarely visited summit.
Zelenci - Ciprnik 2:30, Ciprnik - Visoka peč 30 minutes.

On the way: Ciprnik (1745m)

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