Pečana - Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, and then we continue driving towards Soriška planina. Higher, we get to on a crossroad, where we continue straight towards Železniki (sharply right Soriška planina), and we follow the main road for approximately 1 km, and then we continue right towards Ribčeva planina. Higher, the asphalt ends, and macadam road splits into two parts. We continue on the right road which brings us to Ribčeva planina. At the crossroad above the mountain pasture, we continue right, after that in next two crossroads left. From the second crossroad, where we went left we drive for few 100 meters to the next crossroad, there we turn right and then drive to the end of the road, where we park. From a crossroad on Bitenjska planina to the starting point, there is approximately 7.5 km.
B) From Železniki or Podbrdo at first we drive on Soriška planina, and then we continue driving towards Bohinjska Bistrica. From the parking lot on Soriška planina we drive for approximately 1 km, and then we turn right on the forest road. On the first crossroad, to which we get to after a little less than 2 km of driving from the spot, where we left the main road we continue left, after that in next, which is located after few kilometers, slightly right. From the second crossroad ahead we drive for few 100 meters and then at the next crossroad we turn right and drive to the end of the road, where we park on an appropriate place.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a wide cart track which starts relatively steeply ascending through the forest. After approximately 10 minutes of walking cart track flattens, after that only a little further brings us to cottages on the mountain pasture Pečana.
Few strides above the mentioned cottages we come out of the forest on grassy slopes, and we continue on the right side of the mountain pasture only few meters and then at the crossing we continue right in the direction of the mountain hut Krekova koča (straight Kosmati vrh). The path ahead starts moderately ascending through thinner spruce forest. Higher, we finally step out of the forest on an ample pastures of Ratitovec, where we leave the cart track and we continue the ascent on a little poorly visible, but marked footpath which after few minutes of additional walking brings us on the upper slope of Ratitovec, where from the right side joins the path from Soriška planina. We continue left and an increasingly panoramic path which leads us past the winter bivouac we follow all the way to the mountain hut Krekova koča na Ratitovcu, which we reach after a little less than 5 minutes of additional walking.
From the mountain hut, we continue left on a little steeper path in the direction of Gladki vrh. This increasingly panoramic path, we then follow all the way to Gladki vrh, and we reach it after 5 minutes of additional walking.

On the way: Planina Pečana (1472m), Krekova koča na Ratitovcu mountain hut (1642m)