Podkorita - Kosmati vrh (Ratitovec)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce, and then we continue driving towards Bled and Bohinjska Bistrica. When we get to municipality Bohinj, we slowly need to pay attention to the left turn-off. Just before the main road crosses a bridge through river Sava Bohinjka, we continue slightly left on a macadam road which continues parallel with the river. From the main road, we drive on a macadam road for 2100 meters and then we park on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a macadam road, and it already in the very beginning leads through two successive streams and a smaller wooden cottage, which we notice on the left side. Only a little further, or immediately after the smaller bridge, we get to a smaller crossroad, where short road towards the nearby bee house branches off to the left. We continue towards bee house (straight waterfall Grmečica and Nomenj, right road ends on the nearby meadows) and behind it straight in a lane of bushes, where at first we notice bad footpath which only a few meters higher becomes more distinct. The path ahead leads us through shorter gravel terrain, where it turns right and passes on an old cart track. Further, we are ascending on a cart track, and on two less noticeable crossings we follow to the right. Cart track then crosses a little to the right and brings us into a smaller valley, where it almost entirely vanishes. Few strides we continue through a small valley or some sort of wide ditch, and then the footpath leads left on slopes, where the cart track again becomes more distinct. Only a little higher we cross the forest road, and footpath above it at first ascends through a lane of bushes, and then passes into the forest, through which it starts ascending steeper. Higher again follows few almost unnoticeable crossings, and we follow "main" path, which higher brings us on more rocky and partly with high grass covered 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.
Above the mountain pasture we step on an asphalt road which we follow to the right (left Železniki), and we walk there to the nearby crossroad, by which we notice the first signs for Ratitovec.
We continue left on the road in the direction of Ratitovec, and at first still asphalt road quickly leads into a dense forest. Approximately 10 minutes we walk on the mentioned road, and then blazes point us slightly to the left on a marked footpath which continues on a grassy cart track, and that by the stream Bitenjski graben. Higher, we return on the road which we reach right at the smaller crossroad. We continue on the upper right road, on which we quickly get to the mountain pasture Ribčeva planina.
From Ribčeva planina we continue on the road, and a little higher it brings us to a crossroad, where we continue right. From the crossroad, we walk on the road for approximately 2 minutes, and then signs for a footpath on Ratitovec point us to the left on a marked cart track which higher changes into a little steeper mountain path, and which soon crosses a forest road and behind it flattens. On the other side of the road, we continue on a cart track, and then we quickly leave it because blazes point us to right on a forest path, which is at first moderately ascending, and then it gradually descends to the near forest road which we follow to the left. We continue the ascent on the road, and there in few minutes we walk to its end, where there is a larger parking lot and a turning point.
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.
Above the cottages on the mountain pasture Pečana we step out of the forest and the path quickly brings us to a smaller crossing, where we continue straight towards Vratca (right mountain hut Krekova koča na Ratitovcu). Further, we are gently ascending on the right edge of a grassy valley, and an increasingly panoramic path quickly brings us to a marked crossing on Vratica.
Here, the path branches off to the left towards the mountain pasture Klom, and to the right path towards Gladki vrh and forward towards the mountain hut Krekova koča. We continue straight and then after few meters slightly left in the direction of Kosmati vrh (straight downwards cirque Razor and Prtovč). The path ahead becomes less beaten and on some spots also hard to follow. Next follows a short descent, and then the path brings us by the edge of the cliffs, where it again starts moderately to occasionally steeply ascending. Higher, the path avoids the ridge a little to the left and it brings us out of the forest on panoramic upper slope of Kosmati vrh, where the footpath entirely vanishes. From here only a short ascent follows and almost pathless path in few steps it brings us to the summit.

On the way: Bitenjska planina (901m), Ribčeva planina (1115m), Planina Pečana (1472m), Vratca (1511m)

Trip can be extended to: Krekova koča na Ratitovcu , Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)