Povlje - Bašeljski vrh

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana-Jesenice motorway take the Brnik exit, and when reaching the Mengeš-Kranj road, continue left towards Kranj. Along the main road towards Kranj drive to the first roundabout, from which continue on the first right exit in the direction of Šenčur. Through Šenčur continue on the main road, then, when reaching the Kranj-Zgornje Jezersko road, continue right in the direction of Jezersko. When arriving in Preddvor leave the main road and continue driving left towards the centre of the mentioned place, from there follow the signs for the Bašelj settlement. Somewhat behind the Bašelj settlement the road descends to the Milka stream and also crosses it over a bridge. Here first a road branches off to the right to the village Babni, Vrt, good 100 m further also to the village Povlje. Continue on the ascending road towards Povlje, park on a small parking lot above the village. At the starting point there is a small intersection, several mountaineering direction signs and a larger information board of the Trstenik walking-educational path "path under Storžič".
b) From the Jesenice-Ljubljana motorway take the Kranj west exit, then continue driving towards Golnik. When arriving in Tenetiše leave the main road towards Golnik and continue driving right in the direction of Trstenik. Approximately 1 km behind the Trstenik settlement arrive at a small intersection, where continue left in the direction of the village Povlje. Continue on the ascending road towards Povlje, park on a small parking lot above the village. At the starting point there is a small intersection, several mountaineering direction signs and a larger information board of the Trstenik walking-educational path "path under Storžič".

Route description:
From the starting point continue in the direction of the Trstenik educational trail "path under Storžič", that is, continue along the asphalt road that turns right and leads us somewhat higher past a few houses and cottages. Above the settlement the asphalt ends, the road enters the forest, where a little further it crosses a torrent (in the upper part known as the southwest gully of Storžič, in the lower part no longer so pronounced). After crossing the torrent gully, where ramps grow in springtime, the road ascends transversely to the right for some time, then splits into two wide tracks. Continue on the lower right track, from it go left into the forest after a few steps, on the path towards sv. Lovrenc. The path continues for some time without major changes in elevation, then joins a track along which we quickly arrive at Srečotovih mlinčki.
A little above the mills the path towards sv. Lovrenc turns from the track right into dense forest, we continue straight and ascend along the track to the junction with the marked path.
Follow the mentioned path left (right sv. Lovrenc, Bašelj...) in the direction of Storžič and Kališče.
Further continue towards Storžič along the wide path, which gently ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher the path takes us out of the forest and beautiful views open onto the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness continues unabated all the way to the bench at the junction.
Left leads the marked path towards Javornik and Poljana, we head right towards Kališče. From the junction the path becomes somewhat narrower and less frequented. In the continuation we cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. Along the path forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in some places. During the crossing the path occasionally ascends more steeply, a few times it also gently descends. In the second part of the crossing the path brings us to the spring below Bašeljsko sedlo. Here the path turns slightly right and continues crossing the slopes until it brings us to the marked junction, where we continue straight in the direction of Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
Ahead the path steeply ascends through a belt of dwarf pines and brings us with nice views of the neighbouring Mali Grintovec onto the dwarf pine-covered ridge of Bašeljski vrh, where in the next few minutes we arrive at the next well-marked junction. At the junction the path to Mali Grintovec and Srednji vrh branches right, we continue straight and with a view of Storžič continue the ascent. The path, which runs on and along the dwarf pine-covered ridge, joins a little below the summit also the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here we continue right and along a somewhat narrower ridge in one minute of further walking reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a beautiful view opens towards the mountains above Jezersko, the view extending as far as Košuta, Obir and the Labotniške Alpe in Austria.

Starting point - saddle at sv. Lovrenc 0:40, saddle at sv. Lovrenc - wide valley 1:45, Wide valley - Spring below Bašeljsko sedlo 0:35, Spring below Bašeljsko sedlo - junction above Kališče 0:15, junction above Kališče - junction below Bašeljski vrh 0:15, junction below Bašeljski vrh - Bašeljski vrh 0:20.

Along the route: Pri treh Mlinčkih (835m), Sedlo pri sv. Lovrencu (867m), Široka dolina (1414m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim sedlom (1528m), Razpotje nad Kališčem (1570m), Razpotje pod Bašeljskim vrhom (1643m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Mali Grintovec ( 45 min)

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