Laško - Storžič (on southwest ridge)

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Kranj - east, and then we continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we get to Preddvor we leave the main road and we continue driving left towards the center of the mentioned settlement, from there we follow the signs for settlement Bašelj. When we get to Bašelj at first at the beginning of the left turn in the direction of straight continues narrower road which leads to the parking lot at log cabin TD Bašelj (in descriptions starting point Bašelj), and from the mentioned crossroad we continue on the main road a good 100 meters to the next crossroad, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and hamlet Laško. Only about 50 meters ahead we continue on the left road which gradually starts moderately ascending. At the hamlet Laško we again continue left and then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep macadam road which we follow to the parking lot, at the smaller crossroad. At the crossroad, there are situated red hiking signposts.
B) From highway Jesenice - Ljubljana we go to the exit Kranj - zahod and at the first crossroad, we continue left. Further, we drive through the underpass below the highway, and then we get to a roundabout, from where we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The path ahead leads us through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement, we continue right in the direction of the settlement Srakovlje. Next follows driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela, Zgornja Bela (in Zgornja Bela we join the road from Preddvor) to Bašelj, where the main road makes long left turn, where in the direction of straight continues narrower road which leads to the parking lot at log cabin TD Bašelj (in descriptions starting point Bašelj), and from the mentioned crossroad we continue on the main road a good 100 meters to the next crossroad, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and hamlet Laško. Only about 50 meters ahead we continue on the left road which gradually starts moderately ascending. At the hamlet Laško we again continue left and then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep macadam road which we follow to the parking lot, at the smaller crossroad. At the crossroad, there are situated red hiking signposts.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we go on a steep cart track in the direction of Lovrenc. After a short steep ascent cart track brings us to a crossing, where the footpath to the church of St. Lovrenc branches off to the right. We continue on the bottom cart track which again starts ascending steeper and after 15 minutes of walking from the starting point brings us to hut Dom na Lovrencu.
At the hut we continue on the path towards Storžič and already after few steps the path brings us out of the forest on meadows below the church. Church of St. Lovrenc we reach in few minutes of walking on a meadow.
We continue on a meadow past the church and the path soon brings us into the forest. Further wide path slightly descends to small indistinct saddle, where joins the path from a little higher starting point. Further, we continue in the direction of Storžič still on a wide path, which is slightly ascending. The path soon becomes narrower and is then for quite some time steeply ascending through the forest. Higher, the path finally brings us out of the forest and nice views open up on the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness is still not decreasing all the way to a bench on crossing.
Left leads a marked path towards Javornik and Poljana, and right towards Kališče. At the crossing, we don't continue left or right, but on an unmarked footpath which leads straight. A little worse beaten path we will notice left from the tree on which there are signposts. From the crossing, the path is ascending on a grassy slope, which becomes steeper and soon brings us near the indistinct gully. Here we continue a little to the left and then we are ascending left from the mentioned gully towards the southwest ridge of Storžič. The slope is on this side also a little more vegetated with trees. The path is otherwise poorly beaten, but we can follow it without any bigger problems. When we get closer to the ridge, the path turns to the right and crosses grassy slopes. Next follows a shorter steep ascent to the ridge. Grassy slopes are on a larger part of the path pretty steep and are in wet very dangerous for slipping. And also in dry some caution is needed.
When we reach the ridge, we continue right and we are then ascending on mostly grassy and relatively steep ridge. On steeper parts path few times avoids the ridge on left or right side. We follow the ridge all the way until we join the marked path from the mountain pasture Planina Javornik. The marked path then turns slightly to the right and soon join also paths from Dom pod Storžičem and Kališče. To the top, which we already see in front of us then only a short ascent follows.
We can descend over mountain pasture Planina Javornik or towards Kališče.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2015 (June).

On the way: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (860m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m)