Southeast ridge

Page Type: Route

Location: Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Slovenia, Europe

Lat/Lon: 46.35330°N / 14.62104°E

Route Type: Hiking

Season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Time Required: Less than two hours

Difficulty: "demanding"

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Created/Edited: May 6, 2005 / Jul 30, 2011

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Overview

The Planjava via-normale is classified as demanding in the categorization of marked and secured mountain-hiking paths.
What is demanding is a shorter, but steep and exposed scramble (secured) just below Srebrno sedlo, the saddle which we reach before rejoining the base of the (comfortable) Planjava SE ridge.

This route is most probably the initial Planjava summit access.
Shepperds certainly made use of the Korošica and Petkove Njive meadows which lay ESE of Planjava. The progressive inclination of the slopes was certainly a sheep favorite, consequently leading to the agreably rounded off SE ridge and to the E summit (where the summitbook is).
Wild goats (ibex) are often spotted around here in winter, as they come up for a mid-day sun bath.

Getting There

Our path starts at the Korošica hut (Kocbekov dom na Korošici).

Route Description

Next to the hut, our marked route is signposted PLANJAVA and KAMNISKO SEDLO.
We leave westwards, slighly downhill at first, then horizontaly crossing the slopes below Lučka Baba. The meadow below us, to our left, is called Petkove njive (Fridays fields).
As our path ascends towards Srebrno sedlo, we reach the secured passage. Srebrno sedlo (silver saddle) offers lefthand views down the Repov Kot valley (the leftbank Zeleniške Špice crest is especially attractive).
We continue westwards, but very soon split righthand (signposted Planjava), now properly heading up the comfortable SE ridge to the Planjava summit.
If we wish to traverse the Planjava upper S face -heading W for the Kamnik saddle Hut (signpost Kamniško sedlo), we ignore the right hand Planjava indication and reverse this route.

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