2nd hairpin turn of Vršič road - Kumlehova glava (Za Kumlehom)

Access to the starting point:
From Kranjska Gora we drive towards the Vršič Pass. Just after the 2nd serpentine of the Vršič or Ruska road, you will see a large parking lot on the left, where you park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, first cross the road carefully, then turn onto the narrower road, which is still asphalted. After a few steps, the asphalt ends and the road turns into a forest, where it continues for some time. The very poor road, which crosses a few torrents, ends in a small clearing (a turning point) after a good 15 minutes of climbing.
From here, continue straight ahead on the wide cart track, which goes into the forest. The cart track which we then climb has a few forks, but if we follow the path carefully, we will soon reach a larger torrent, where it disappears for a short time. Continue climbing along the gravel of the torrent and you will soon see cart track, which continues left into the forest.
The track then leads us through the initial part of the undistinguished valley of Za Kumleh, and we follow it to a point where it turns quite left. It is at this point that we see a small man, next to which we see a relatively steep path which we then climb. After a short climb, the path returns to cart track, which we finally leave after a further 10 steps.
On the right-hand side of cart track you will see a path, at first less visible, which climbs parallel to the track for a while and then starts to climb up a moderately steep slope in a number of switchbacks. The path ahead leads past a large boulder, after which the forest becomes a little thinner. Soon the path returns to the dense forest, where it crosses the slopes to the left. During the crossing, we cross two slightly awkwardly traversed ravines.
The path ahead begins to climb steeply through the forest before turning slightly to the right. The steepness then eases, and after a few minutes' further walking the path leads to a saddle between Visoki Mavrinc on the left and Kumlehova glava on the right.
Continue right (left Visoki Mavrinc for 10 minutes, straight down hut na Gozdu) along the path which continues along the south-east ridge of Kumlehova glava. The path, which continues for some time through the forest, soon retreats slightly to the right, where it crosses a short and slightly exposed ledge. The path then returns to the ridge, where it begins to climb steeply up an increasingly exposed slope. Higher up, the ridge narrows and the path leads to an exposed passage where you cross the top of a precipitous ravine (high risk of slipping in wet conditions). Beyond the ravine, the path climbs steeply up the slope, which is covered with dwarf pines. After about 15 minutes of steep climbing through dwarf pines, the path leads to the main ridge, where it turns to the right. There are only a few more 10 steps of ascent on the scenic and partly precipitous ridge of Kumlehova glava.
In the lower part, the greater number of switchbacks makes orientation a little more difficult.

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