Mače - Bašeljski vrh (through valley of Suha)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Kranj - East, then continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When you reach Preddvor, leave the main road and turn left towards the centre of the town, and from there follow the signs for Mače. When you arrive in Mače, continue right at the marked crossroads (left Bašelj, straight ahead St Nicholas Church (the church is not accessible by car)) and follow the narrow road above the village, where there is a large marked parking lot.
b) From the motorway Jesenice - Ljubljana, take the exit Kranj - West and continue left at the first junction. Continue through the underpass under the motorway and then to the roundabout, from where you continue in the direction of Golnik. The road continues through Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the village we turn right in the direction of Srakovlje. We then drive through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we turn right towards Preddvor. At Preddvor we see signs for Mače, which direct us left past the primary school onto the road that climbs up to Maca. When you arrive at Mače, continue right at the marked crossroads (left Bašelj, straight ahead St Nicholas Church (the church is not accessible by car)) and follow the narrow road above the village, where there is a large marked parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue in the direction of Kališča and follow the forest road, which is closed to public traffic. The road, which climbs relatively steeply, leads us after a good 20-minute walk to a marked crossroads, where the normal route to Kališče branches off to the left, and we continue to the right and continue along the deteriorating forest road. Just a little higher we reach the bottom station of the cargo cableway leading to Kališče, and the road gradually turns into a wide cart track after that.
Follow the marked cart track for a while, then, when it splits in two, continue along the wider unmarked cart track on the left (at the crossroads there is cairn). The ascent continues along the above-mentioned cart track, which climbs steeply along a strip of uncultivated slope. At a higher altitude, the cart track ends and we continue on a well-traced but rather steep path which turns into dense forest at a higher altitude. After about 20 minutes of climbing, we join the marked path, which we follow to the left.
We follow the marked path for only 10 m, then just before the marked path turns sharp left, we leave it and continue straight ahead on a barely visible path. The path quickly disappears in the forest and we continue in the same direction. The path then quickly leads us out of the forest onto dwarf pines rubble, along which we climb towards Mačensko sedlo. Although the 'path' is more difficult to follow in some places, there are no major problems with orientation, as we continue in the same direction all the time (i. e. towards the saddle between Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec). Higher up, we have to make our way through a short strip of dwarf pines, but the passage is not particularly difficult, as there is a visible, otherwise completely overgrown, path through the aforementioned part. The path leads on from dwarf pines and after a few steps of further walking we reach Mačensko sedlo, where we rejoin the marked path.
Continue slightly left in the direction of Bašeljski vrh (sharp left Kališče, right Mali Grintovec) on the path which begins to climb steeply along and along the eastern ridge of the aforementioned peak. Follow this relatively steep and increasingly scenic path all the way to the summit, which is reached after about 20 minutes' walk from Mačensko sedlo.

On the way: Mačensko sedlo (1615m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Mali Grintovec (1 h)

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