Krn (; ) is a mountain of the southwestern

Julian Alps The Julian Alps ( sl, Julijske Alpe, it, Alpi Giulie, , ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia. A large pa ...

in northwestern

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. It is the highest mountain of the Krn Mountains. The mountain is located about from the

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. The

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River flows west of the peak, and the smaller Lepenjica River northeast and the Tolminka River southwest of it. Krn has a mighty western wall, which can be best seen from

Kobarid Kobarid (; it, Caporetto, fur, Cjaurêt, german: Karfreit) is a settlement in Slovenia, the administrative centre of the Municipality of Kobarid. Kobarid is known for the 1917 Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Erne ...

or Drežnica. On the southern slope of the mountain lie the small villages of Vrsno, Krn, Drežnica,

Drežniške Ravne Drežniške Ravne (; it, Raune di Dersenza) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kobarid in the Littoral region of Slovenia. The local church is dedicated to Saint Matthew and dates to 1511. The church itself with some of its furnishings was da ...

, and

Magozd Magozd (; it, Magosti) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kobarid in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Name The village was attested in written sources in 1409 as ''Namabisgonden'', circa 1439 as ''Na mali gosden'', and in 1763–87 as ''Magos ...

. On the northern side lies Lake Krn, the largest

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in Slovenia. During the

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, the

Battles of the Isonzo The Battles of the Isonzo (known as the Isonzo Front by historians, sl, soška fronta) were a series of 12 battles between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies in World War I mostly on the territory of present-day Slovenia, and the remaind ...

took place in the area. The 3rd Regiment of Alpini had taken Mount Krn's peak on 16 June 1915 in a daring raid where the elite Italian unit climbed the peak's cliffs "with their boots swaddled in sacks of straw to reduce noise," some of them barefoot, and others wearing only socks, and battled the Hungarian battalion of the 4th Honved Regiment. "It was a glorious success, the first of the war, presaging others that never materialized." The top of neighbouring Mount Batognica () was blown off by an accidental weapon depot explosion. Many remnants from the war remain scattered around the peak.

Lodges

* On the southern side near the top is the Gomišček Krn Lodge (; ); * On the northern side near the lake stands the Krn Lakes Lodge (; ); * On the Kuhinja Pasture stands the Kuhinja Pasture Lodge (; ); * Below its northern slope, in Lepena, stands the Dr. Klement Jug Lepena Lodge (; ).

Access to the summit

* 3 hours from Kuhinja Pasture * 5 hours from Dr. Klement Jug Lepena Lodge * 5 hours from Drežnica, via the Silvo Koren Route * 7¾ hours from the Savica Lodge over the Prehodavci Pass

Bibliography

Notes References * * - Total pages: 409 * - Total pages: 496

Literature

* Planinski vodnik Julijske Alpe, PZS, 2003, * Andrej Stritar, Vodnik Julijske Alpe - Gore nad Sočo, 1997,

External links

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