Srednja vas - Planina Blatce

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. Only a little before Bohinjska Bistrica, at settlement Bitnje, we continue sharply right in the direction of Pokljuka. After a short ascent the road flattens and it quickly brings us into a valley Zgornja Bohinjska dolina. Here at the crossroad we continue left (right Pokljuka) and follow a road ahead to Srednja vas. Here in the second part of the village we notice signs for the church of St Martin, which point us to the right on narrower and quite steep road, on which then we quickly get to the church and primary school. We park on an appropriate place by the school or church, a settled public parking lot is situated approximately 15 minutes away by the foot of the ski slope Senožeta.

Path description:
From the parking lot at the church in few steps we descend to primary school, and from there we continue in the direction of viewpoint on Kres. The path ahead leads us on a narrower asphalt road, on which we quickly get to a bigger water storage, where we notice signs for Uskovnica. We continue on a cart track which passes into the forest, at the right turn for some time we step out of the forest and a nice view opens up on Rudnica and part of the valley Zgornja Bohinjska dolina. We continue on a cart track which leads us through a little narrower passage, and then in a diagonal ascent to the spot, where we reach the road which leads on Uskovnica. We reach the road right on a well-settled viewpoint on Kres, from which a view opens up towards Srednja vas, valley Zgornja Bohinjska dolina and Spodnje Bohinjske gore at the back. A short time we continue on the road, and then at the end of the mild left turn signs for Uskovnica point us to the right on a cart track which leads us through the forest, lane of bushes, and higher again through the forest. Few minutes higher we again reach the macadam road, and this time we stay there for a longer time and we leave the marked path which continues on a cart track. Next follows a longer diagonal ascent towards the left, where occasionally a view opens up a little, otherwise we are mostly ascending through the forest. Higher on the left we already notice first cottages on the mountain pasture Blatce, and we are few minutes ascending on the road, and from the road we go left, when a worse road branches off slightly to the left, which leads to the nearby cottage.
Description refers to condition in February 2020, and pictures are from various periods.

On the way: Razgledišče na Kresu (619m)

Trip can be extended to: Studor ( 35 min)