Kočna - Planina Obranica (via Baba)

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lipce exit and turn left towards "Blejska Dobrava and Spodnje Gorje". Soon after entering the railway underpass, we are at the next crossroads, where we turn right - Bled, Kočna. The road, serpentine at first, climbs straight westwards and soon reaches the summit or settlement of Kočna in a left turn. Our starting point is 100 m before the local signboard, but because of the unbroken line we pass the first houses, where we see a bus stop on the right. Here we turn around and go all the way back to the turn or town - a few metres before we would have descended back down into the valley. Park on the gravel road.

Path description:
From where you parked, first cross the road carefully and walk 20 m back towards the valley on the opposite side. Here you will see a green sign with the inscription "hiking trail 6", where you continue into the forest in the route indicated by this sign. Turn right here, where you will soon come across the first sign pointing left uphill to an undistinguished ridge. Here the path climbs more steeply, and after a few minutes it turns even more to the left and south, and then lies down. For a short time the path gradually descends, then turns right up the bank and then left over the rocks. From here on it leads first briefly out of the forest, then back into the predominantly deciduous forest, where it climbs moderately to steeply.
After a good 20-minute walk from the starting point, you will come across a small signpost along the way, which reads 'Baba 5 min', where you can turn right and see the famous 'Poljanska Baba'.
The path to mountain pasture continues straight ahead or left up the bank. Soon you will come across a large number of fallen trees, which obstruct the path, then it turns right and after the left turn you will reach a ridge where there is a "Grandfather"-(rocky balcony), which you can climb. The path continues to the right, in a westerly direction, steeper and steeper uphill. A few small bends follow, after which the path starts to lead us again more and more to the left towards the south. When the steepness starts to ease, we are somehow at the top of the plateau. Here the winding path drops a little at times and climbs back up, and sometimes seemingly disappears, all the time more or less following the eastern edge of the plateau. As we approach our destination, but still in the forest, we descend a little, coming across a wooden barrier with a gate. When you emerge from the forest, you are at mountain pasture Obranica. To the left is a monument, and to the SE beyond it is the summit of mountain pasture with a cross on the trunk of a tree (you can't see it from here), where you go for a view. From here, descend back - west, slightly uphill, across the meadow to the back of mountain pasture with the shepherd's hut. This is reached in a further 5 minutes' walk.

On the way: Poljanska baba (889m)

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