Nomenj - Bitenjska planina (via Emin plavž)
Starting point: Nomenj (490 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2893°N 14.003°E
Path name: via Emin plavž
Time of walking: 1 h 20 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 411 m
Altitude difference (by path): 425 m
Map: TNP 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Bled, from there we continue driving towards Bohinj. Still before Bohinjska Bistrica, at settlement Nomenj, where by the main road are situated bus stop, railway station and inn Gostilna pri Matičku, there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any appropriate places for parking.
B) We drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, and then we continue driving towards Bled. Still before Bled, at settlement Nomenj, where by the main road are situated bus stop, railway station and inn Gostilna pri Matičku, there is the beginning of the described path. At the starting point, there aren't any appropriate places for parking.
Path description:
From the inn Gostilna pri Matičku we continue in the direction of waterfall Grmečica, where the path at first leads parallel with the main road, and we walk on a worse macadam road. We soon go right through the underpass under the railway track, and then we go once again right in the direction of waterfall Grmečica and blast furnace Emin plavž. We continue on a macadam road which over pastures brings us to the former parking lot, today parking is allowed only with permit for fishermen and users of canyoning.
From the parking lot, we still continue on a macadam road, and it quickly brings us to footbridge over the river Sava Bohinjka. After the bridge, we continue left in the direction towards blast furnace Emin plavž (right waterfall Grmečica) and on a macadam road we walk to the nearby Emin plavž, where there is an information board.
Over a small wooden bridge we walk to renovated ruins of blast furnace, and then we continue on a cart track in the direction towards the source of Plavžarica (signpost pointing a little too much to the right). Further, we are at first ascending on the left side of Plavžarica, and higher we cross it and short time we continue the ascent by the left bank, but the path still before the source avoids more to the right, where on triangular crossroad of cart tracks, we choose the one, which is ascending. Next follows few more crossings, and we follow the "main" cart track, on which we ascend to a forest road which we follow to the left (right Nemški Rovt).
The path ahead leads us on the forest road which crosses slopes towards the left, and we walk there approximately 20 minutes, or to the spot, where the road is crossed by footpath which leads from Podkorita towards Ratitovec (mentioned path is on some maps marked as marked, but isn't).
On the mentioned spot, we leave the road and we continue right on a footpath which continues through the forest through which it starts ascending steeper. Higher follows few almost unnoticeable crossings, and we follow the "main" path, which higher brings us on more rocky and partly with high grass vegetated cart track. Here we continue left and then after few meters, when we get to a smaller valley right on a gently sloping cart track, on which we ascend to the nearby macadam road. We follow the road to the right, and after few 10 meters on a smaller right turn, slightly left on a cart track, on which we ascend to the bottom part of the mountain pasture Bitenjska planina. When we step out of the forest we continue slightly left, and after a shorter ascent, we already notice first cottages on the mountain pasture, to which we walk over more and more panoramic meadow.
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