Bohinjska Bela (St. Marjeta) - Hotunjski vrh
Starting point: Bohinjska Bela (St. Marjeta) (468 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.3499°N 14.0695°E
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 639 m
Altitude difference (by path): 670 m
Map: TNP 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From the road Bled - Bohinjska Bistrica we drive in the direction of Bohinjska Bela, where we park on a parking lot near the parish church of St. Marjeta.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road which starts lightly ascending through the settlement. The road soon entirely flattens and past the post office and Mercator store brings us to a crossroad, where we continue slightly right in the direction of apartments Pr Klemuc. After a small pond, we go right in the direction of Mlina peč, Slamniki and Galetovec (slightly left Iglica and Široka peč) and we start ascending on a cart track, by which we are accompanied by signs of a learning trail. At the smaller crossing, we go slightly left and we diagonally ascend to a smaller saddle, where a short path branches off to the right on panoramic Mlina peč, and we continue slightly left in the direction of Galetovec and Slamniki. Next follows an easy ascent, where we go past "playground", and at the playground, we turn a little to the right. When a little further, the path Godrnjavčeva pot turns right, we continue straight, past the storage of logs into the forest. Through the forest, we continue straight, on this part we notice a lonely blaze, and then we for some time step on an asphalt road, on which we ascend to a marked crossing.
From the crossing, we continue slightly right in the direction of Kavca and we continue on a cart track which is mostly moderately ascending. Cart track soon narrows into a hiking path, which turns a little to the right and crosses the stream and further we follow the signs for Rčitno. When we step out of the forest we get to Kavca, where we continue right and past a bigger storage of logs we get to the forest, where we continue walking on a cart track. Higher the cart track for some time steeply ascends, and then at the feed site widens into a worse road, on which in few minutes we reach a wider macadam road which we follow to the left towards Rčitno.
Further, the road passes into a small valley below Strešno brdo, and when we leave a small valley we pass over on slopes of Gače, from where for some time a view opens up a little on surrounding hills. The path ahead for some time returns into the forest, where it also splits.
We continue slightly right on an ascending cart track (straight mountain pasture Planina Rčitno - 5 minutes), which on the right side bypasses the mountain pasture Planina Rčitno. During the diagonal ascent for some time a view opens up a little towards the mentioned mountain pasture, and the cart track soon passes into a dense forest, and at the nearby crossing we choose the right cart track which is further quite rough from torrential waters. The mentioned cart track, we then follow all the way until we get on a macadam road which we follow to the right. On the road, we are few minutes lightly ascending, and when the road starts descending, we leave it (we leave the road on part, where it starts descending, or we can also about a minute ahead at the ruins of former homestead Posavc) and we continue left in the forest, where after a minute or two we reach a former ski track of the ski slope Zatrnik.
We continue the ascent on the former ski track, which turns left, after that with increasingly beautiful views we get to the upper station of an abandoned ski lift, from where to the top of Hotunjski vrh separates us only few 10 strides of walking on the ridge.
On the way: Kavca (685m)
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