Planina Blato - Slatna (via Kreda)
Starting point: Planina Blato (1147 m)
Path name: via Kreda
Time of walking: 3 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: partly demanding
Altitude difference: 930 m
Altitude difference (by path): 950 m
Map: Triglav 1:25.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce and follow the road towards Bled and forward towards Bohinjska Bistrica. We continue driving towards the Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where we come to the crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina at the crossroad at the chapel, we turn sharply left on an ascending road in the direction of the mountain pasture Blato, mountain pasture Vogar and valley Voje. The road ahead brings us to the spot, where the road toll or parking fee has to be paid, we follow it forward to the next crossroad, where we continue left (right Voje). Then we follow the road to the next crossroad (we drive for quite some time), where we turn sharply right in the direction of the mountain pasture Blato (straight mountain pasture Vogar). We follow this road to the parking lot above the mountain pasture Planina Blato.
Path description:
From the parking lot on the mountain pasture Blato we go on the road a little back to the signposts at a cart track. Here we go on a cart track which at first steeply ascends and then it is moderately ascending and in ten minutes of walking, it brings us to a crossing, where we go left (straight mountain pasture Planina v Lazu). We then follow the cart track through the forest all the way to cottages on the mountain pasture Planina pri jezeru. Here a view opens up on surrounding hills.
We bypass the mountain hut on the left side and the path in a gentle descent brings us to a crossing, where we continue straight on a cart track (left mountain pasture Viševnik). Mostly rocky cart track which runs on an indistinct small valley few times steeply ascends and after a half an hour of walking from the mountain pasture Planina pri Jezeru brings us to a mountain pasture Dedno polje, where we come to the next crossing.
Here we continue right on a poorly visible footpath in the direction of the mountain pasture Planina v Lazu (we don't continue in the direction of the mountain hut Zasavska koča). The path ahead in a gentle descent crosses the mountain pasture and on the other side of it brings us to a barely noticeable crossing. At the spot, where the marked path turns right, we leave it and we continue straight on the old hunting path which starts at first gently ascending. The path which is occasionally overgrown because of the fallen trees, higher starts to ascend steeper. The path which runs through a thin forest, higher brings us to an interesting passage. Narrow passage between two steep slopes we overcome without problems, and the path then brings us into a lane of dwarf pines. Higher, the path turns slightly to the right and passes on panoramic grassy slopes of Kreda, on which we ascend on a panoramic peak.
From Kreda we continue slightly left, at first a little downwards, and then "path" brings us by the foot of smaller gully. "Path" ahead at first steeply ascends, after that gully widens and passes on grassy slopes of Slatna. After few minutes of additional ascent, we step on a panoramic peak.
Blato - Dedno polje 1:30, Dedno polje - Kreda 1:20, Kreda - Slatna 30 minutes.
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