Bitenjska planina - Kosmati 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.
Above the huts on mountain pasture Pečana, we leave the forest and the path quickly leads us to a small crossroads where we continue straight towards Vratce (to the right, Krek's hut on Ratitovec). Next, we climb gently along the right edge of the grassy valley, and the increasingly scenic path quickly leads us to the marked crossroads at Vratice.
Here, the path to mountain pasture Klom branches off to the left, and the path to Gladki vrh and on to Krek's cottage to the right. Continue straight ahead and then after a few metres slightly left in the direction of Kosmati vrh (straight down cirque Razor and Prtovč). The way ahead becomes less beaten and in some places more difficult to follow. A short descent follows, and then the path leads us to the edge of the cliffs, where it again begins to climb moderately to occasionally steeply. Higher up, the path retreats slightly to the left and leads us out of the forest onto the Kosmati vrh summit slope, where the path disappears completely. From here there is only a short climb and the almost pathless path leads us to the summit in a few steps.

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

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Krekova koča na Ratitovcu, Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)

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