Planina Blato - Kanjavec (Za Kopico)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. Continue driving towards Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where you reach a junction, continuing right towards Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina, at the junction by the chapel, turn sharply left onto the ascending road towards Planina Blato, Planina Vogar and Voje Valley. The road then takes you to the toll and parking fee collection point, but follow it further to the next junction, where you continue left (right to Voje). Then follow the road to the next junction (drive for quite some time), where you turn sharply right towards Planina Blato (straight to Planina Vogar). Follow this road to the parking lot above Planina Blato.

Route description:
From the marked parking lot in front of Planina Blato, return a little back and head onto a wide and initially also steep cart track, along which there are signs for Planina pri Jezeru. After about ten minutes of ascent, you arrive at a marked junction, from where you continue left towards Planina pri Jezeru (slightly right Planina v Lazu and also a steep path towards Planina pri Jezeru).
Continuing on the less steep cart track, which continues to lead through the forest, a marked path joins from the left a little further on, leading past Kosijev dom on Vogar, but we continue right and keep walking along the cart track. Higher up, the path leads through a small narrow passage, then crosses quite steep slopes where there is a high risk of slipping on ice and snow, otherwise the path is not demanding. At the end of the steep slope, the aforementioned steep path joins quite unobtrusively from the right, the cart track turns left here and passes into the rather cool Pungrat valley, where we ascend through mostly spruce forest. When the path levels out higher up, another path joins from the left leading past Planina Vodični vrh, but we keep slightly to the right and continue walking along the cart track, along which the forest begins to thin. A few minutes of easy walking follow and we step onto the pastures of Planina pri Jezeru, where the Koča na Planini pri Jezeru stands on a small hillock.
At the hut, a path branches right towards Planina v Lazu, but we continue left from the hut and descend to a marked junction where there are also a few shepherds' huts.
Choose the wider right path along which there are signs for Planina Dedno polje and Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (slightly left Pršivec, Planina Viševnik and Črno jezero).
Continuing ascent along the cart track, which is quite rocky on steep sections, after about ten minutes of ascent you arrive at a point where a path branches left over Krištofojca towards Planina Viševnik, but we continue straight along the gradually less steep cart track leading through gradually sparser forest. A bit more easy walking follows along the path, which later turns slightly right, when the path turns back towards the west we already reach the edge of Planina Dedno polje, from where a walk to the central part of the pasture follows, where there is also a marked junction by the shepherds' huts.
Here we leave the wide path leading straight towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih and nearby Planina Ovčarija and continue right along the path towards Zasavska koča na Prehodavcih, Vratca pass and Hribarice saddle. The path further leads past a few huts on the pasture, behind which a path branches right towards Planina v Lazu, Planina Krstenica and Vodnikov dom na Velem polju, but we continue straight to the northwest part of the pasture, where the path begins to ascend. Here the path first leads past a dry animal watering place, then the path becomes steeper and ascends through mostly coniferous forest of spruces and larches. After about thirty minutes of steep ascent, the path levels out and takes us to a kind of saddle between Kovačičeva glava on the left and Kredo on the right.
A little further from the saddle, which can be traced by the name Stog, an unmarked path branches right towards Slatna, and we get the first beautiful views of the mountains rising above the Za Kopico valley. A traverse ascent follows above the abandoned Planina Ščavje, the path gradually passes from the slopes of Slatna to the slopes of Prvi Vogal, and higher up the view more frequently catches the interesting rocky peak of Kopica rising on the left, western side of the Za Kopico valley.
Higher up we gradually arrive in the central part of the valley, where from the slopes we enter a series of several small valleys, along which we mostly ascend moderately, only occasionally a shorter steeper section follows. With beautiful views we continue upwards through the wonderful landscape, the valley narrows higher up and at an altitude of 2192 meters we reach the Vratca pass, which separates the Za Kopico valley from the Dolina Triglavskih jezer.
From the pass, located between Velika Zelnarica on the left and Zadnji Vogal on the right, from the marked junction continue straight towards Prehodavci, Hribarice and Dolič (sharply left Mala Zelnarica, Mala Tičarica, Štapce, Planina Ovčarija and Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih) and begin a traverse descent along the scree of Zadnji Vogal. The path further levels out transversely and leads us briefly through more level terrain, then we arrive at the slopes of Vršaki, where the slope gradually becomes steeper, on a shorter section also somewhat dangerous for slipping, when the slopes become less steep we reach a marked junction below Hribarice.
Continue right towards Triglav, Dolič, Kanjavec and Hribarice (left down Dolina Triglavskih jezer, Zasavska koča na Prehodavcih, Trenta, Zadnjica and Špičja ridge) and begin ascending towards the Hribarice plateau. At the beginning of the Hribarice plateau, the first path towards Kanjavec branches left.
Here we leave the path towards Koča na Doliču and Triglav and continue slightly left towards Kanjavec.
The path further takes us into a small and relatively steep valley located between the two peaks of Kanjavec. The increasingly scenic path continuing along the aforementioned valley levels out higher up and takes us to the saddle between the western and eastern peak of Kanjavec.
Here continue right (left western peak along an unmarked path) and in a few minutes ascend to the scenic and precipitous summit.
Starting point - Planina pri Jezeru 1:00, Planina pri Jezeru - Planina Dedno polje 0:30, Planina Dedno polje - Stog 0:30, Stog - Vratca 1:40, Vratca - junction below Vršaki 0:45, junction below Vršaki - junction below Hribarice 0:10, junction below Hribarice - Kanjavec 1:00.

Along the route: Razpotje Pungrat (1255m), Razpotje pod Vodičnim vrhom (1449m), Koča na Planini pri Jezeru (1453m), Razpotje Krištofojca (1512m), Planina Dedno Polje (1560m), Stog (1740m), Vrata (2192m), Razpotje pod Vršaki (2191m), Razpotje pod Hribaricami (2292m), Sedlo med Kanjavcema (2529m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Poprovec, Kanjavec (West peak)

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