Rudno polje - Mrežce

Access to starting point:
a) From Bled or Jesenice we drive to Zatrnik, then we continue driving towards Pokljuka. When we arrive at Pokljuka we always stay on the main road and drive along it to the large arranged parking lot at Rudno polje.
b) From Železniki or Podbrdo we drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, then we continue driving in the direction of Bled. Shortly after the Petrol gas station, which is located just a little after Bohinjska Bistrica, we continue driving left in the direction of Pokljuka and Jereka. In the continuation the road first climbs steeply, then after Koriti it gradually flattens and brings us to the intersection at the bus station, where we continue right in the direction of Pokljuka, Koprivnik and Jereka (straight Srednja vas). Immediately after the intersection we arrive in Jereka, and from the intersection in front of the church we continue straight towards Pokljuka (left Podjelje). After Jereka the road starts to climb more steeply again, higher up it flattens and continues along Mrzli potok, where to the left branches off the road to Koprivnik in Bohinj, and we continue straight towards Pokljuka and Gorjuše. After Gorjuše the road enters the forest, and we drive along it to the intersection, where we join the road from Bled. Here we continue left, then along the main road we drive to the large parking lot at Rudno polje.

Route description:
From the parking lot we first carefully cross the road, then continue along the gravel road in the direction of Triglav, Viševnik and Blejska koča na Lipanci. Along a fairly gentle road we walk for about ten minutes, then we arrive at the Viševnik ski slope, where we leave the road and continue the path to the right in the direction of Viševnik and Srenjski preval (further along the road Triglav, Vodnikov dom and Studorski preval). The path ahead leads us to the left of the ski slope, along a trail that runs through the edge of the forest. After a short climb we return to the gravel road, which we reach at the place where the marked path towards Viševnik continues straight up, and we follow the road to the right, thus crossing the ski slope. The road quickly takes us into the forest and to an intersection, where we continue along the lower right road, in the next intersection again to the right, both times in the direction of Lipance. After the second intersection we arrive at the sand quarry Rudno polje, a little further on, after a short descent, the signs for Planina Lipanca and Blejska koča direct us left into the forest. Through the forest at several junctions we follow the markings, then a little higher we cross the gravel road. After crossing the road the path becomes somewhat steeper and mainly ascends transversely to the right. Higher up the forest begins to thin, and on the left we notice an animal watering place (often without water).

From here follows a few more minutes of ascent, then we arrive at a junction, from where we go left upwards in the direction towards Mrežce (right downwards Blejska koča na Lipanci, two minutes) and the moderately steep path after a short ascent brings us to the next junction, where we continue right upwards (straight Viševnik, Debeli vrh and Mrežce gentle path) along the path that begins to climb steeply first through a belt of sparse forest and higher through dwarf pine. The increasingly scenic path, from which a view of the highest peaks of the Julian Alps opens up to us, is joined a little below the summit by a somewhat longer gentle path. We continue to the right and in a few next steps we step onto the scenic summit.

Rudno polje - Mountain camping area 0:10, Mountain camping area - Planina Krasca 0:05, Planina Krasca - Blejska koča 1:30, Blejska koča - junction on Žvanova pot 0:10, junction on Žvanova pot - Mrežce 0:45.

Along the route: Planinski taborni prostor (1369m), Planina Krasca (1402m), Krucmanove konte (1425m), Blejska koča na Lipanci (1630m), Razpotje na Žvanovi poti (1718m)

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