MounTminBike Soca Valley Slovenia

Only ruins await you in this hardly accessible part of Tolminka valley where once big property marked this part of territory. The round trip takes you across two bridges, passes by two of the most interesting places in this area (which you are able to pay a visit of course) and brings you back out of this picturesque valley directly to an outdoor bar. The beer there is absolutely perfect.

Kovačič Planina lies on Kolovrat ridge, from which great views on Soca River and the Krn’s mountain chain open up. There are many ways to get back down to the valley and cool down in Soca itself. One of those ways takes you down on single track via Kovačič Planina pasture and finishes with a really badly shaped forest road.

Many years ago described in one of the first mtb guides in Slovenia, this crossing from Razor toward eastern Lower Bohinj Mountains, offers yet again a unique impression of how well the “mule paths” were build during the WWI. Today after 50+ years the path still exists, although only in a form of a single track on once more than 1,5m wide mountain road. SLIDESHOW

Looking so not attractive, this 1200m hill top doesn't realy look as a favorable mtb destination. So wrong. Its dense forest provides excellent shield from hot summer sun, and the best on this hill starts at its top - descent. If the one from Stol to Kobarid is intense this one is non-stop technical. Steep descent plus many of stone stairs sections on the path makes it really interesting. But surely brings a smile on your face once back in the valley.

Trip to Razor always offers a variety of choices of getting up to it or descend from. This time we took advantage of a beautiful afternoon sun and made the crossing from Stador to Kal pasture and from there by some short cuts single tracks all the way down to the valley to get out the Tolminka gorge at the very end of our trip. As always Razor is an excellent choice.

Reaching Magozd by taking an old road from camp Koren near Napoleon bridge over Soca river and heading towards Zaprikraj pasture allows you to avoid a big bunch of asphalt road. From the pasture we literally climbed to Krasi Vrh from where a great view on Drežnica and Krn is offering. The uphill suffer paid off on the return. The way down to Dreznica is demanding and technical. To finish in stile a path down the Kosec gorges to Ladra village was taken.