Ukanc - Planinska koča Merjasec (via Žagarjev graben)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled, Bohinjska Bistrica, Ribčev Laz and Vogel ski resort. We park on a large well-maintained parking lot at the lower station of the cableway to Vogel.

Route description:
Under the lower station of the cableway on Vogel we notice a forest road (in winter a ski slope), which begins to ascend moderately towards the west. The path continues for some time gently to moderately ascending, then brings us out of the forest onto a panoramic slope from where a beautiful view opens up onto Komarčo, Pršivec and Lake Bohinj.
After that the road starts to turn more and more to the left and becomes steeper and steeper. Higher up we continue on a relatively steep ski slope, along which a rougher and gravelly transport-rescue road leads us all the time. After some time the road or ski slope temporarily flattens, then steeply ascends again and brings us to a marked junction, where we continue left in the direction of the Ski hotel on Vogel (straight ahead lower station of the two-seater chairlift Zadnji Vogel).
A little further we arrive at the next junction, where we continue left again (right mountain pasture Zadnji Vogel), and we follow the increasingly steep transport-rescue road to the Vogel plateau. Here we continue left and in a gentle ascent in a few minutes we walk to the Planinska koča Merjasec mountain hut.

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Planina Zadnji Vogel, Orlove glave, Visoki Orlov rob, Vrh Dlani, Šija, Vrh Krnic, Rušnati vrh, Vogel, Meja

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