Bele Vode - Jerebica

Access to starting point:
A) From Kranjska Gora over the border crossing Rateče we drive to Trbiž / Tarvisio. In Trbiž we continue left in the direction of Bovec and we follow the road to the crossroads near the lake Rabeljsko jezero. Here we continue right in the direction of Nevejski preval (V Žlebeh) / Sella Nevea. This road, which is mostly ascending, we follow to the bridge, where at the left turn the road crosses the stream Bele vode / Rio Bianco. On the left side of the road, we will notice a few smaller parking spots. There are many more of them left lower on the gravel terrain, to which a short turn-off leads.
B) From Bovec, we drive to the border crossing Predel, from which we descend on the Italian side. Only a little after the lake Rabeljsko jezero we come to a crossroads, where we continue left in the direction of Nevejski preval (V Žlebeh) / Sella Nevea. Further, we follow the description above.

Route description:
From the parking lot by the edge of the gravel terrain we take the marked path 653 for Jerebica / Cima del Lago; we go on the gravel road, we twice cross the area where after snow melting flows meltwater into the lake Rabeljsko jezero. Before we come to the edge of the forest we see a signpost which directs us right, after some 10 m we go right again, after the next 10 m to the left upper cart track. This soon flattens and changes into a flat footpath in the forest, only a few meters above the gravel terrain. When the footpath brings us to a cart track we continue left, higher at the next junction where path 654 branches off to the right, then left again. We continue for some time on a gentle cart track, after which a cairn and trail blaze lead us to a forest footpath which we partly follow in zigzags for half an hour. Higher we come out of the forest, we several times cross areas which are a little more overgrown with bushes. Higher we ascend right above the bottom of the valley, above which the path turns left and ascends partly over scree which takes us to Jezersko sedlo. Here the path joins with the one from Možnica and there continues left (signpost Cima del Lago 1.5h). We continue on the footpath which slowly ascends, a little further it turns sharply right below Gorenji Vogel and then once again sharply left, after which the path leads briefly on a wide ledge, higher we slowly ascend to an indistinct saddle between Gorenji Vogel and Gorenji Krivi rob. We ascend a little more steeply, then the path turns left where just below the summit of Gorenji Krivi rob it flattens, after which a descent follows (here for the first time we see the summit proper of Jerebica). First gently, then also over a 5-meter rocky step which must be climbed, but the holds are good, so there are no difficulties. Soon we come to the saddle between Gorenji Krivi rob and Jerebica, then follows a traversing gentle ascent toward the summit, in between due to the demanding terrain we have to grab rocks twice. Higher we come to the summit saddle, a few steps higher we see the lake Rabeljsko jezero on the left and soon we find ourselves on the summit of Jerebica.

Along the route: Jezersko sedlo (1720m)

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