Poljšica pri Gorjah (Zatrata) - Hotunjski vrh (by road)

Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Bled, and then we continue driving in the direction of Pokljuka. When we get to Zgornje Gorje, at the crossroad at the church we turn left in the direction of Poljšica. Further, we drive on a narrow road past the church, and then on the nearby crossroad behind the chapel right. Only a little further at the next crossroad we go left in the direction of Poljšica, and when we get to the mentioned settlement we go on first crossroad right, and after good 10 meters left in the direction of hamlet Zatrata. At the beginning of hamlet path Riklijeva pot branches off to the right, here we continue still on an asphalt road, and after few meters we get to the next crossroad, where there is the beginning of the described path. We park on an appropriate place somewhere nearby.
B) We leave Gorenjska highway at exit Lipce, and then we follow the signs for settlement Kočna and later Spodnje Gorje. In Spodnje Gorje we join the road from Bled, and we continue in the direction of Pokljuka. When we get to Zgornje Gorje, at the crossroad at the church we turn left in the direction of Poljšica. Further, we drive on a narrow road past the church, and then on the nearby crossroad behind the chapel right. Only a little further at the next crossroad we go left in the direction of Poljšica, and when we get to the mentioned settlement we go on first crossroad right, and after good 10 meters left in the direction of hamlet Zatrata. At the beginning of hamlet path Riklijeva pot branches off to the right, here we continue still on an asphalt road, and after few meters we get to the next crossroad, where there is the beginning of the described path. We park on an appropriate place somewhere nearby.

Path description:
From the starting point, we go on the road which continues towards the south, and from there at first a nice view opens up towards Stol, and then the road passes into the forest. Through the forest, we at first moderately ascend, and then follows a short descent, to the spot, where we join the road from Bled.
The mentioned road, we follow to the right, and there we are mainly gently to occasionally moderately ascending. During the ascent at first from the left joins the marked path from Zaka, higher after the troughs below crosses, also from the right footpath from Poljšica pri Gorjah.
Further, when we walk on the road, we are also accompanied by Knafelc blazes. A quite gentle road which for some time runs through a small valley, higher turns right and becomes steeper and more and more similar to a wide cart track. During the ascent on a bad road for some time a view opens up a little in the direction of Galetovec, and when the path returns into a dense forest, it also splits.
We continue straight on a wider marked path (bad road) (on the path right, by which we can notice some faded blazes it is possible to come on Hotunjski vrh), by which we soon notice signs, that we got to Rčitno, but at first we are still in the forest. The forest soon ends, and then the cart track leads on the bottom of ample mountain pasture, and past some individual cottages we ascend on the upper part of the mountain pasture, from where also a nice view opens up.
From the upper part of the mountain pasture, we continue right on a marked path in the direction of Šport hotel on Pokljuka (straight Bohinjska Bela). The path ahead is ascending through the forest, and after few minutes brings us to a macadam road which we follow to the right. A little further from the road to the left continues a marked path towards Pokljuka, and we go straight and we continue on a macadam road which further isn't marked anymore. For some time we walk on a relatively gentle road, after that from the right side, on a smaller indistinct saddle joins also unmarked footpath from Poljšica pri Gorjah.
On the road, we are then 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 leave it 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.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2017 (January).

On the way: Planina Rčitno (900m)