Bitenjska planina - Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)

Access to the starting point:
Take the Bohinjska Bistrica and continue to Soriška planina. After a few kilometres of climbing, we arrive at a crossroads where the road to Soriška planina turns sharp right, and we continue straight on towards Železniki and Škofja Loka. Continue for about 1 km and then reach a small crossroads where the road to Ribčeva mountain pasture branches off to the right. At the crossroads there are signs for Ribčeva planina and Ratitovec. Park a few metres before the junction in the gravel parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, first walk to the nearby crossroads, where you will see the first signs for Ratitovec.
Continue right on the road towards Ratitovec, and the initially asphalt road quickly leads into a dense forest. Walk along the road for about 10 minutes, and then the signs direct you slightly left on a marked footpath, which continues along the grassy cart track, which in turn runs along the Bitenjski graben stream. Higher up, return to the road, which is reached just at a small crossroads. Continue along the upper right road, which quickly leads to Ribčeva planina.
From Ribčeva mountain pasture, continue along the road, which takes you a little higher to a crossroads where you continue to the right. From the crossroads, walk along the road for about 2 minutes, and then the signs for the footpath to Ratitovec direct you left to the marked cart track, which turns into a slightly steeper mountain path higher up, but soon crosses the forest road and lays down behind it. On the other side of the road continue along cart track, then quickly leave it as the markings direct us right onto the forest path, which climbs moderately at first, then gradually descends to the nearby forest road, which we follow to the left. The ascent continues along the road, and we walk along it for a few minutes to its end, where there is a large parking lot and a turning point.
From the parking lot, continue along the wide cart track, which starts to climb quite steeply through the forest. After about 10 minutes' walking, cart track is laid down, and then only a little further on leads to the huts at mountain pasture Pečana.
A few steps above these huts, we emerge from the forest onto grassy slopes, and we continue along the right-hand side of mountain pasture for just a few metres, and then at the crossroads we continue to the right in the direction of the Krek huts (straight Kosmati vrh). The way ahead begins to climb moderately through an increasingly sparse spruce forest. Higher up, we finally emerge from the forest onto the vast pastures of Ratitovec, where we leave cart track and continue our ascent along a slightly less visible, but marked path which, after a few minutes' further walking, leads us to the top slopes of Ratitovec, where we are joined on the right by the path from Soriška mountain pasture. Continue to the left and follow the increasingly scenic path that leads past the winter bivouac all the way to Krekova koča na Ratitovcu, only to reach it after less than 5 minutes of further walking. From the hut, continue left along a slightly steeper path in the direction of Gladki vrh. Follow this increasingly scenic path all the way to Gladki vrh, which is reached after 5 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Ribčeva planina (1115m), Planina Pečana (1472m), Krekova koča na Ratitovcu mountain hut (1642m)

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