Ravenska Kočna - Mrzla gora (Slovenian way)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana–Jesenice highway, take the Kranj–east exit and follow the road ahead in the direction of Jezersko. In Zgornje Jezersko, just a little behind the gas station, we will notice a road that branches off to the right from the main road (direction Planšarsko jezero). The road then leads us past the mentioned lake and behind it steeply ascends for a short time. Higher up, the road flattens and at the beginning of a large meadow loses its asphalt surface. We then follow the macadam road to a marked larger parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the macadam road following the signs »Češka koča, Ledine« and after approximately 15 minutes of walking, we come to the cargo cableway.
From the former parking lot at the cargo cableway, we head onto the path that goes between both cableways (the lower station of the cargo cableway to Kranjska koča burned down in June 2015) and then slightly upwards. The path soon leaves the forest and continues through dwarf pines. After some time, the path brings us to a gully named Žrelo. Here we are at a junction, where we continue left (straight ahead the path through Žrelo), and the path then immediately becomes a climbing path. The path is well secured, but caution is still needed due to wet rocks. The path over the shorter wall is in places quite exposed, but full of nice views. When we climb this section, the path returns to the dwarf pines, through which we then ascend on a well-made path. We continue quite steeply upwards and soon the path through Žrelo joins from the right. From here to the Kranjska koča hut, we have only a few dozen steps of easy walking.
From the hut, we continue left towards the east in the direction of Ledinski vrh, Mrzla gora and Rink. The path, which is initially quite level, brings us in a few minutes to a junction, where we take the right path (left is the climbing path to Babe). The path ahead becomes only slightly steeper and brings us to a somewhat more difficult passage over a rocky section. Here a steel cable assists us, but the passage when dry is not difficult. The path then brings us to wide slopes below Ledinski vrh, from which there is a nice view towards the glacier below Skuta, which we can see on the right side. The path then brings us with a moderate ascent to Jezersko sedlo, which borders neighbouring Austria. From Jezersko sedlo, we continue right in the direction of Savinjsko sedlo, which we reach after approximately 15 minutes of traversing. From this saddle, we descend towards Okrešelj. After a few minutes of descent, we come to a smaller emergency bivouac, where we sign the logbook (bivak pod Mrzlim vrhom). We continue descending and soon come to a junction, where the climbing path to Koroška Rinka branches off to the right upwards over scree, while we continue downwards. Soon afterwards, at 1700 m altitude, the path to Mrzla gora branches off to the left. The path initially ascends through sparse dwarf pines and then brings us to a traverse across a rocky slab. Here we put on helmets, as the path ahead is very crumbly and exposed to falling rocks. From the traverse, the path brings us into a gully, which we only cross. Now we enter the climbing section of the path. The path is well protected at the start, but the protections soon run out. There follows an unprotected ascent up a pyramidal slope. Since this section of the path is very steep, watch out for falling rocks. Before stepping onto the top of the pyramid, we have the feeling that this is the summit. But when we step onto the "summit", we see that it is not. There follows a highly exposed traverse of a narrow ledge without protections. At the end of this ledge, the path turns left up a moderately steep wall straight upwards (without protections). Then we walk along the ridge, which is in places quite exposed. The path then turns slightly right and brings us to the summit in 30 minutes over fairly steep terrain.
The path is very demanding and poorly protected. Helmet mandatory.
Ravenska Kočna - Kranjska koča 2:00, Kranjska koča - Savinjsko sedlo 1:15, Savinjsko sedlo - Mrzla gora 2:30.

Along the route: Kranjska koča na Ledinah mountain hut (1700m), Jezersko sedlo (2034m), Savinjsko sedlo (2020m), Bivak pod Mrzlim vrhom (1980m)

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