Planina Blato - Velo polje (via Grintovica)

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and on to Bohinjska Bistrica. Continue towards Bohinjsko jezero (Ribčev laz), at which you will come to a crossroads where you will turn right towards Stara Fužina. At Stara Fužina, at the crossroads by the chapel, turn sharp left onto the ascending road towards mountain pasture Blato, mountain pasture Vogar and the Voja valley. The road continues to the place where the toll and parking fees are collected, and we follow it to the next crossroads, where we continue to the left (right Voje). We then follow the road to the next crossroads (we drive for some time), where we take a sharp right in the direction of mountain pasture Blato (straight ahead mountain pasture Vogar). Follow this road to the parking lot above mountain pasture Blato.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the dirt road, which takes a few steps past the ramp to a right-hand bend. On the right-hand side of this bend, you will see the start of a hunting trail, which leads us over a short, very steep slope with the help of a jeklenice. The path soon enters the wods and turns slightly to the right, where you come out onto the wide open cart track (you can also follow the road to this point, or the higher cart track). Follow Cart track to the right (the hunting trail continues straight on towards mountain pasture Krstenica), and it climbs steeply for some time. Follow Cart track, from which a few blind branches branch off, to a slightly larger and partially marked crossroads, where you can see the sign Grintovica on one of the trees.
Here, leave the wide cart track and continue along the slightly narrower one on the right, which climbs gently for some time. The path continues slightly downhill a few times, and then we see signs for Grintovica, which direct us right into the dense forest (here we leave the increasingly worse cart track). In the forest, the path disappears completely, and we continue in the same direction, where we come to a large number of fallen trees. Here we cross a marked path leading from the valley of Voja towards mountain pasture Krstenica (the fallen trees make the crossing almost imperceptible, but we must take care not to continue on the marked path). On the other side of the marked trail, cross a small clearing, and the trail returns to the forest and gradually begins to descend more steeply. After a short steep descent, the path is laid and leads to steep slopes, over which we descend mostly crosswise. During the crossing, a few short, slightly exposed slopes are crossed, then the slope is flattened and the route continues with a few short ascents and descents. A little further on, leave the forest and enter the southern part of mountain pasture Zgornja Grintovica, where the first wooden huts can be seen. The path continues through the lane of a forest and leads to a water trough, next to which stands Kef's cottage. We continue on, again through the lane of the forest and follow the path to the upper part of the mountain pasture, where we see some more old shepherd's huts. At the last upper part of mountain pasture, on the right-hand side, near the dilapidated hut, you will see a wide path going into the wods and beginning to descend crosswise towards mountain pasture Spodnja Grintovica. After about 10 minutes of descending, you will reach the above-mentioned mountain pasture, where you will also join the marked path from the Voja valley, which you follow to the left.
The path ahead returns to the forest, where it starts to climb steeply again. The rather monotonous path then leads us into an unmarked valley (Jurjevčeva vrtača), where it gradually flattens out. Further on, the forest becomes a little thinner and the path turns slightly to the right, where after a few minutes of further walking we arrive at a less well-marked crossroads.
At the crossroads, continue left (right Vodnikov dom) and continue the ascent along the path, which becomes completely flat and leads us in a few minutes of further walking to the intermittent lake near mountain pasture below Mišelj vrh.
From the lake we continue straight along the path which, after a short climb, leads us to an undistinguished pass from which we descend to Malo polje. There follows an easy and pleasant walk along the small spring at Malo polje, and then the path climbs moderately and leads us to a crossroads where the path from Pokljuka or Uskovnica joins us from the right. Continue straight on the path, which begins to descend, and quickly leads to mountain pasture Velo polje.

On the way: Planina Zgornja Grintovica (1250m), Planina Spodnja Grintovica (1175m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Planina pod Mišelj vrhom, Jezerski Stog, Koča na Doliču (1 h 45 min), Šmarjetna glava

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