Tinčkova koča - Srednji vrh (above Završnica) (via Smokuška planina)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway we take the Lesce exit and follow the road ahead in the direction of Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, we will get to a crossroad, where the road to Žirovnica and Moste branches off to the right (from the direction of Jesenice left). Only a few meters ahead in the next crossroad, we turn left to Moste (right Žirovnica). Further, we drive past a monument to fallen soldiers, where the road starts ascending up a hill below the railway track. On top of the slope, we turn right (at the sign Vila Karin), and then drive towards Završniško jezero and Valvasorjev dom. The road then flattens and brings us to a crossroad, where the road towards the mountain hut Valvasorjev dom branches off to the left, and we continue straight on the initially still asphalted road. The road soon becomes macadam, and we follow it to a parking lot near the mountain hut Tinčkova koča. The road in the upper part is often in quite bad condition.

Route description:
From the parking lot at the mountain hut Tinčkova koča we continue on a wide rocky cart track in the direction of the mountain hut Koča pri izviru Završnice. Already after a few steps of walking blazes point us slightly right, on a somewhat steeper footpath which ascends over a panoramic grassy slope, and then it returns to the before-mentioned cart track which we follow to the right. Cart track, which is relatively steeply ascending through the forest, after a few minutes of additional walking brings us to a grazing fence, behind which we come to the marked crossing.
We continue straight (slightly right Roblekov dom) on still rocky cart track which higher out of the forest brings us on ample grassy slopes of Smokuška planina. Here the steepness decreases and the increasingly panoramic path in 15 minutes of additional walking brings us to the hut Koča pri izviru Završnice.
From the mountain hut, we continue left on a marked footpath in the direction of Stol. The path already after a few minutes leaves the cart track and passes into a smaller valley between Srednji vrh on the left and Vrtača on the right. A moderately steep path which runs through a thin forest, higher for a short time steeply ascends and after a few minutes of additional walking brings us to saddle Šija, where there is a marked crossing.
We continue left (straight Stol lower path, right Vrtača and Stol upper path) on an unmarked path which starts steeply ascending on and by the ridge. The path which runs among a dense belt of dwarf pines, after 20 minutes of walking from the saddle Šija brings us to Srednji vrh.
Starting point - Koča pri izviru Završnice 1:00, Koča pri izviru Završnice - Srednji vrh 1:00.

Along the route: Dom pri izviru Završnice (1425m), Šija (1693m)

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