Bohinjska Bela (St. Marjeta) - Grajska planina (Ribšca)

Access to starting point:
From the road Bled - Bohinjska Bistrica, we drive in the direction of Bohinjska Bela, where we park at the 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 to panoramic Mlino peč, and we continue slightly left in the direction of Galetovec and Slamniki. Next follows an easy ascent, where we go past the playground, and at the playground, we turn a little to the right. When a little further 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 step onto an asphalt road for a while, 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 mostly moderately ascends. The 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 arrive at Kavca, where we continue right and past a bigger storage of logs we arrive in the forest, where we continue walking on a cart track. Higher the cart track steeply ascends for a while, then at the feed site it widens into a worse road, on which in a 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 the small valley we pass to the slopes of Gač, from where temporarily a bit of a view opens up on the surrounding hills. The path ahead temporarily returns into the forest; when we leave it we already reach Rčitno, where there are a few cottages.
In the middle of the bottom part of the mountain pasture, we continue left in the direction of Bohinjska Bela and on the road, which soon changes into a cart track, in a moderate ascent we ascend to the upper south edge of the mountain pasture, where we continue right (straight Bohinjska Bela) past the cottage into the forest. In the forest, we quickly notice signs for Pokljuka, and we diagonally ascend to a forest road, which we follow to the right (left we can reach Galetovec). On the road, we descend a little for a while, then signs and blazes direct us left onto a path, which diagonally ascends over a somewhat steeper slope. Higher, we reach a cart track, on which we ascend through a small valley, where we quickly arrive at a crossing by a small cottage. Behind the cottage, we continue right and the marked path brings us to the Forestry Cottage Mali Vokel, which is situated at an altitude of 1145 m.
We bypass the forestry cottage on the right side, and then blazes lead us into the forest, through which we ascend more steeply. A few minutes higher we cross a macadam road, and we continue straight and likewise on the macadam road in about 10 steps we reach the hunting cottage.
We bypass the hunting cottage on the left side and continue walking on a bad road. When the road turns a little to the right, we continue straight on a marked cart track, and further we follow the blazes and ascend to the former ski slope Zatrnik, where we start descending (if we continue right we can in a minute or two ascend to the top of the ski slope Berjanca, from where a nice view opens up, reaching all the way to Triglav). Next follows a shorter descent, then we cross the forest road and continue on the marked cart track. The cart track soon splits, and we choose the upper right path, which further ascends through the spruce forest. A few minutes higher we go from the cart track left onto a marked path, which soon starts descending to the northeastern part of Rečiška planina mountain pasture. Next follows walking across Rečiška planina mountain pasture, where we go past a few cottages.
On the other side of the mountain pasture, the path widens into a road, and from the nearby crossroad we continue on the right road, from which we soon go left onto a marked path. The path is initially quite level, then it starts moderately descending and lower reaches another road. A marked path continues to the right, but we proceed to the nearby cottage on Grajska planina, by which after rain there is a nice lake.
Bohinjska Bela - Rčitno 1:45, Rčitno - Forestry cottage Mali Vokel 0:50. Forestry cottage Mali Vokel - Hunting cottage Mali Vokel 0:10, Hunting cottage Mali Vokel - Berjanca 0:10, Berjanca - Rečiška planina 0:35, Rečiška planina - Grajska planina 0:25.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2019 (November).

On the way: Kavca (685m), Planina Rčitno (900m), Gozdarska koča Mali Vokel (1145m), Lovska koča Mali Vokel (1193m), Berjanca (1264m), Rečiška planina (1265m)

Trip can be extended to: Zgornji Goreljek (Pokljuka) (1 h 35 min)