Gozdec - Veliki Babanski Skedenj (over Ruše and over saddle Jezerca)

Access to the starting point:
From central Slovenia, drive to the centre of Bovec via Predel, Vršič, Nova Gorica, Idrija, Cerkno or Petrovy Brdo, then go up towards Kaninska village. The road becomes macadam and takes a series of curves to the B station where, after a sharp left turn, you continue for another kilometre to a sharp right turn, where you go left, or straight ahead. Another 100 m separates us to the parking lot on the left, and in front of it, from the signpost for Kopa straight ahead, we see the marked path going towards Kanin, which is also our starting point.

Path description:
From the parking lot we go a few steps back, where we see a slightly hidden signpost for Kanin to the left up the slope, we climb up, and then the path soon lays down and sometimes steepens, but occasionally leads us in 15 minutes to the crossroads at the log: the right marked path goes to Kanin, and we turn slightly to the left, the path goes on through a beautiful forest, partly on the flat, and occasionally in the bends climbs over some rocky step. After a good half an hour, the trail, which is clearly visible all the time, leads us out of the forest, where the first views open up and show the continuation of the trail steeply up to the Ruše ridge, climbing up below Ruše in the bends, where we pass under its rocks and on the other side over a precipice, but wide enough to avoid danger, we reach the southern sunny slopes, where the path flattens out and gently descends to the next crossroads, where we turn right (left mountain pasture Baban). Total time to get here is about 1. 5 hours.
The path rises slightly further and when we first see the tooth of the Great Baban Barn it lays down again. The path is now less visible, but there are no major orientation problems, we are always going in the direction of our visible summit, a few branches can be found, but everywhere we go to the right. Later we get under the walls of the Little Baban Barn, in the bends below them and then again a bit flatter and not too steep to the Jezerca saddle between the two barns (about 1h 15 min. from the previous junction to here.
On the other side of the saddle, continue along the sometimes more exposed path, and sometimes on a real mulatier under the wall. Half an hour's walk from the saddle we reach the southern grassy slopes, where the real track disappears and we have approx. 20 minutes to the top, where we can go our own way, as the grasses are not too steep and do not pose a danger in the dry. On reaching the top, we see the miniature Aljaž Tower and, if the weather is fine, we have a fantastic view.

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