Planina Blato - Kanjavec (via Dolina za Mišelj vrhom)
Starting point: Planina Blato (1147 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.3112°N 13.8501°E
Path name: via Dolina za Mišelj vrhom
Time of walking: 6 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: partly demanding
Altitude difference: 1422 m
Altitude difference (by path): 1720 m
Map: TNP 1 : 50.000
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. We continue driving towards the Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where we come to the crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina at the crossroad at the chapel, we turn sharply left on an ascending road in the direction of the mountain pasture Blato, mountain pasture Vogar and valley Voje. The road ahead brings us to the spot, where the road toll or parking fee has to be paid, we follow it forward to the next crossroad, where we continue left (right Voje). Then we follow the road to the next crossroad (we drive for quite some time), where we turn sharply right in the direction of the mountain pasture Blato (straight mountain pasture Vogar). We follow this road to the parking lot above the mountain pasture Planina Blato.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road ahead, which over the road closure brings us to the right turn. Here the road starts descending and after two minutes of descent brings us to a crossing, where we go right on a cart track. Cart track, which is moderately ascending we follow approximately 15 minutes to poorly visible beginning of the hunting path towards the mountain pasture Krstenica (beginning of the path, we notice on the left side). Like most of hunting paths also this has beginning of the path poorly visible so we will maybe have some problems looking for the beginning (if we don't find this path we can continue on a cart track, where we stick to the left direction). The hunting path further continues through the forest with some shorter steep ascents and after a good hour of walking, it brings us to a smaller hunting cottage on the left side of the path. Here a minute long path to the vantage point branches off to the left, where below us we can notice a mountain pasture Blato. From the hunting cottage ahead, the path soon brings us out of the forest, where we again join the cart track. Next follows only a good five minutes of walking to the mountain pasture Krstenica, where a beautiful view opens up on Ogradi, Krn and Spodnje Bohinjske gore.
From the mountain pasture, we continue further on the path which is at first a little poorly visible on the western (left ) side of the mountain pasture. Already after few ten meters, several smaller footpaths join into a one well visible path. The path ahead with some shorter ascents and descents crosses slopes of Mali and Jezerski Stog. After approximately half an hour of walking from Krstenica, the path brings us on a grassy terrain of abandoned mountain pasture Jezerce. Here our path turns right in grassy slopes. The path which is ascending below the slopes of Adam and Eva is becoming steeper and steeper and after 45 minutes brings us on a saddle Jezerski preval, where a view opens up on Triglav.
From the saddle, we then descend on the northern side. At the beginning, the path turns slightly to the right, and after few minutes left in thin larch forest. The path continues to descend and it brings us to a crossroad, where the marked path branches off to the left towards the saddle Mišeljski preval. We continue on the right path, which a little before the mountain pasture Planina pod Mišelj vrhom we leave and go left on an unmarked path towards the valley Dolina pod Mišelj vrhom (towards the west). The path starts ascending and is well beaten, and runs below the southern slopes of Mišelj vrh. When we come on the northern side of Škednjovec (2309 meters), the path becomes a little poorly visible and runs on flat terrain covered with rocks and boulders. We start ascending again and when we get closer to Mišeljski konec (2464 meters) valley turns to the left. Here we walk on the left side of the valley, which becomes in the upper part pretty steep and brings us on the saddle between Vrh Hribaric (2388 meters) and Mišeljski konec. From the saddle, we descend few meters and we join the unmarked path, which runs through the valley Dolina za Debelim vrhom. After few minutes of walking, we come to a crossroad on Hribarice, where we are again on a marked path. We go straight in the direction towards Kanjavec. The path quite steeply ascends and runs through an indistinct small valley between the eastern and western peak of Kanjavec. On the saddle between the both peaks we go right and in few minutes we reach the peak.
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