End of road on Pokljuka - Viševnik (via Gola Ravan)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce and follow the road ahead towards Bled. In Bled at the traffic lights, the signs for Pokljuka point us to the right. Ahead we drive through Gorje and past the abandoned ski slope Zatrnik to Rudno polje on Pokljuka (large parking lot, barracks and shooting range). From here we continue straight on a macadam road which a little further brings us to a crossroad, where we continue right (left Uskovnica). We follow this road to a parking lot at the end of the road (near are signposts for a mountain pasture Konjščica).

Path description:
From the parking lot at the end of the road, we continue on a wide and at first ascending cart track in the direction of the mountain pasture Konjščica. Cart track, which goes immediately into a dense forest, quickly flattens and after few minutes of easy walking changes into a footpath which continues by the left bank of the stream Ribnica. When the path gets very close to the mentioned stream it turns slightly to the right and it ascends steeper. Higher, the path flattens and out of the forest brings us on the bottom edge of ample Konjščica. Here the path turns slightly to the left, crosses the stream and after few additional strides, it brings us to the spot, where the marked path crosses the next stream. Right before we cross the mentioned stream unmarked path branches off to the right, which leads towards marked path Rudno polje - Triglav. Here we continue right (left cheese cottage on the mountain pasture Konjščica, Vodnikov dom na Velem polju, Triglav...), where at first we few steps ascend, so that we step out of a riverbed of the stream and then the footpath for some time vanishes and flattens. Over a grazing area we continue towards the east or a little more right, all the way to the spot, where the footpath becomes more distinct. After the crossing of a torrent ditch footpath becomes more distinct and with nice views on mountains, which surround the mountain pasture Konjščica starts ascending steeper. Higher, the path passes into the forest, then quickly brings us to a marked path Rudno polje - Triglav, which we reach right at some sort of broad ridge.
We follow the marked path left downwards, and we walk there only to a crossing of first torrent. At the torrent we leave the marked path and we continue the ascent by a torrent, at first straight upwards. We soon notice traces of predecessors, few more strides and higher we see easy to follow footpath (to here possible also on the path which from the before mentioned broad ridge branches off in the forest (beginning of the mentioned footpath isn't visible)). Here, the footpath towards the right crosses a stream and behind it slowly semicircular turns left, where leads us through a meadow where the footpath isn't visible. When we again get closer to a small stream we again see footpath, and it crosses a stream and on the other side starts ascending diagonally. The path then ascends into a smaller valley, where again vanishes. When small valley flattens we continue right, where after few meters we again see footpath which is this time more distinct. From the point, when we left the small valley we walk only about a minute or two, and then by the path, we notice a smaller cairn, by which path splits into two parts. The left path leads towards the saddle between Viševnik and Plesišče, and the path which continues straight at Zlate vode joins the marked path Rudno polje - Viševnik.
From the mentioned crossing, we continue on the left path which starts ascending diagonally towards the left. From for some time still easy to follow footpath occasionally a view opens up a little on Spodnje Bohinjske gore and surroundings of the mountain pasture Planina Konjščica, and then the footpath slowly starts vanishing. That we are on the right path we know, because by the path, we notice some cutted dwarf pines. After the crossing with grass vegetated torrent footpath is vanishing even more, and "path" right on this part in long arc turns semicircular towards the right, where the footpath again becomes better visible. Next follows few minutes of crossing or light ascent towards the right and easier to follow path soon brings us on the saddle between Plesišče on the right and Viševnik on the left.
On the mentioned saddle we reach a marked path Rudno polje - Viševnik, and we follow it to the left. The path ahead is at first moderately, after that steeply ascending through a lane of dwarf pines. Higher dwarf pines end and the path brings us on tiny saddle, from where a nice view opens up. Further, we are ascending on steeper and panoramic grassy slope, and the path then turns a little to the right and in a diagonal ascent brings us on the ridge of Viševnik, where a nice view opens up also towards Rjavina and surrounding mountains. The path continues on and by the ridge and is then for some time only moderately ascending. After a shorter traversing, we get below the peak of Viševnik, where the path becomes pretty steep (in the winter time is this part often icy) and in few minutes brings us on a panoramic peak.
The starting point - Planina Konjščica 30 minutes, Planina Konjščica - Viševnik 1:45.
Description refers to condition in July 2014, from then are also pictures from Planina Konjščica to Viševnik.

On the way: Planina Konjščica (1438m)

Trip can be extended to: Mali Draški vrh