Konec ceste na Pokljuki - Kredarica

Access to starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Lesce exit, then follow the signs for Bled and Pokljuka. Continue driving through Gorje and past the Zatrnik ski slope to Rudno polje on Pokljuka, where there is a large paid parking lot, nearby also a military barracks and shooting range. From here continue straight on the gravel road, which shortly ahead brings us to a junction, where we continue right (left Uskovnica). Follow this road to the former parking lot Za Ribnico, which is located at the end of the road (nearby are mountaineering signs for planina Konjščica).
Parking at the end of the road is now prohibited, so we park already at Rudno polje, which extends the route by about 40 minutes, but it is more appropriate to choose the marked path that starts already at Rudno polje.
b) From Železniki or Podbrdo drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, then continue driving towards Bled. Shortly after the Petrol gas station, located just a little after Bohinjska Bistrica, continue left towards Pokljuka and Jereka. The road first steeply ascends, then after Koriti gradually flattens and brings us to a junction at the bus station, where we continue right towards Pokljuka, Koprivnik and Jereka (straight Srednja vas). Immediately after the junction we arrive in Jereka, from the junction in front of the church we continue straight towards Pokljuka (left Podjelje). After Jereka the road begins to ascend more steeply again, higher it flattens and continues along the Mrzli potok. When we join the road from Bled go left and drive to Rudno polje, where there is a large paid parking lot, nearby also a military barracks and shooting range. From here continue straight on the gravel road, which shortly ahead brings us to a junction, where we continue right (left Uskovnica). Follow this road to the former parking lot Za Ribnico, which is located at the end of the road (nearby are mountaineering signs for planina Konjščica).
Parking at the end of the road is now prohibited, so we park already at Rudno polje, which extends the route by about 40 minutes, but it is more appropriate to choose the marked path that starts already at Rudno polje.

Traffic regime in the Pokljuka and Uskovnica area from 15.6. to 15.10.

Route description:
From the former parking lot at the end of the road, we continue on a wide and initially ascending cart track in the direction of planina Konjščica. The cart track, which immediately enters dense forest, soon flattens and after a few minutes of easy walking turns into a footpath that continues along the left bank of the Ribnica stream. When the path gets very close to the mentioned stream, it turns slightly right and ascends more steeply. Higher up, the path flattens and takes us out of the forest to the lower edge of the vast planina Konjščica. Here the path turns slightly left, crosses a stream and after a few more steps brings us to the cheese dairy on planina Konjščica.
From the cheese dairy, we continue on a pleasant path that in a few minutes of gentle ascent brings us to the upper edge of the planina. Here the path enters a belt of dwarf pines and shrubs and gradually begins to ascend more steeply. In the upper part of the ascent towards Jezerce, the path from Rudno polje joins us from the right, we continue straight on the moderately steep path, which in a few more minutes of walking brings us to Jezerce, where the path flattens and turns left (here a path branches right to Srenjski preval).
Follows easy walking to a sign indicating the central area of TNP, then the path begins to ascend moderately along a torrent, initially still a streamlet. Higher up, the path crosses to the right side of the torrent (viewed from the ascent direction) and then transversely ascends to Studorski preval, from which we get a nice view of the mountains above Bohinj.
Here a demanding path from Srenjski preval joins us from the right, from our path unmarked trails also branch off to Ablanca and Veliki Draški vrh.
From the saddle, we first descend steeply for a short time, then the path turns to the right direction, and we then for a longer time with some shorter easy ascents and descents traverse the slopes to the left. From the slopes of Veliki Draški vrh we gradually arrive at the slopes of the massive Tosc, we with nice views continue past the branch of the path to Tosc and the junction where the path from Uskovnica also joins us from the left.
At all junctions, including the one where a partly abandoned path leading over planina Zgornji Tosc joins us, we continue straight, the path gradually brings us to steeper and also precipitous southwest slopes of Tosc mountain, where there was a landslide a few years ago, so some extra caution is needed due to falling rocks. Over the precipitous part runs a quite wide path, so there are no special difficulties in this section, when the slope becomes less steep, the path from Stara Fužina or Voje valley also joins us from the left.
We continue straight on the wider marked path towards Triglav, which continues north, leads us along the western slopes of Tosc, the still gentle path takes us over some scree to Vodnikov dom on Velem polju, where the next junction is.
Here too we continue straight towards Triglav, the path begins to ascend transversely along the slopes of Vernar, higher up it also becomes technically demanding. Follows some traversing where a fixed cable assists us, higher up we arrive at a steep step, where with the help of numerous pegs and fixed cable we ascend stone steps.
The path ahead flattens, the slope becomes less steep and near Konjsko sedlo also somewhat more grassy.
We easily descend to Konjsko sedlo, from the marked junction on the saddle we head straight on the path towards Triglavski dom na Kredarici and Staničev dom pod Triglavom (left Dom Planika pod Triglavom, right Krma valley), just a few steps ahead the path forks again.
We continue slightly left towards Kredarica (slightly right Dom Valentina Staniča) and then transversely ascend over numerous gullies, where crossing them is generally not demanding. Further on the path becomes technically more difficult and on some sections some safety gear assists us for easier and safer progress, mainly fixed cables, some pegs too.
At an altitude of just under 2300 meters we join the technically easier path from Krma valley, we continue left towards Kredarica and Triglav.
When a few minutes ahead the path flattens further, a path branches left past Snežna konta and over Štapce towards Dom Planika pod Triglavom, we continue right and first continue quite gently, then ascend to the ridge above Vrh Snežne konte, the summit of which we saw from below upwards during the ascent over Kalvarija.
Here the path becomes steeper again, we follow such a path all the way to Triglavski dom na Kredarici.
Before the chapel continue right towards Dom Valentina Staniča and after 5 minutes of further walking ascend to the summit of Kredarica, from where a nice view opens towards Triglav and surrounding mountains.
Start - Planina Konjščica 0:30, Planina Konjščica - Klanci 0:40, Klanci - Jezerce 0:05, Jezerce - Studorski preval 0:30, Studorski preval - Planina Zgornji Tosc 0:35, Planina Zgornji Tosc - Na Zagonu 0:20, Na Zagonu - Vodnikov dom 0:20, Vodnikov dom - Konjsko sedlo 0:30, Konjsko sedlo - Kalvarija 0:55, Kalvarija - Triglavski dom 0:35, Triglavski dom - Kredarica 0:05.

Along the route: Planina Konjščica (1427m), Klanci (1678m), Jezerce (1719m), Izvir pod Studorskim prevalom (1746m), Studorski preval (1892m), Planina Zgornji Tosc (1849m), Na Zagonu (1819m), Vodnikov dom (1817m), Konjsko sedlo (2020m), Kalvarija (2288m), Triglavski dom na Kredarici (2515m)

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