Planina Blato - Velika Zelnarica (via Štapce)

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and on to Bohinjska Bistrica. Continue towards Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), arriving at a crossroads where you turn right towards Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina, at the crossroads near the chapel, turn sharp left onto the ascending road towards mountain pasture Blato, mountain pasture Vogar and the Voja valley. The road continues to the place where the toll and parking fees are collected, and we follow it to the next crossroads, where we continue to the left (right Voje). We then follow the road to the next crossroads (we drive for some time), where we take a sharp right in the direction of mountain pasture Blato (straight ahead mountain pasture Vogar). Follow this road to the parking lot above mountain pasture Blato.

Path description:
From the marked parking lot at mountain pasture Blato go back a few 10 steps, then take the wide and initially quite steep cart track in the direction of mountain pasture at Jezero. After 10 minutes of relatively steep ascent, you reach a marked crossroads where you continue along the left steep cart track (straight mountain pasture in Laz), only to be joined a little higher by the marked path with mountain pasture Vogar. Continue along the wide, partly stony cart track, which is crossable at a higher level and then climbs steeply through a small hairpin bend. Just ahead, the path bends sharply to the left and leads into a cold valley called Pungrat, where it crosses an abandoned pasture fence. The path ahead starts to climb steeply again, then turns to the right and lays completely flat. Just a few metres further on, we join the path with mountain pasture Vodični vrh on our left, and we continue straight on and after 5 minutes of further walking we arrive at mountain pasture near Jezero, in the middle of which stands a mountain hut.
From the mountain hut, continue slightly to the left and initially downhill to a marked crossroads, from which take the right path in the direction of Dednega polje (to the left mountain pasture Viševnik and Pršivec). The wide path continues, first gently and then climbing moderately to steeply through a sparse spruce forest. Higher up, a path branches off to the left across Krištofojca, leading to mountain pasture Viševnik, and we continue along the wide path, which slopes slightly higher up and then turns slightly to the right, where we see mountain pasture Dedno polje ahead. Here the path turns to the left and after a few further steps leads to mountain pasture Dedno polje, at the edge of which is a marked crossroads.
Continue straight ahead towards the hut at Triglav Lakes (right valley Za Kopico) on a path which climbs gently to moderately through mostly sparse forest. The path from which we open a beautiful view of the Lower Bohinj Mountains then descends and leads us to mountain pasture Ovčarija, where the next crossroads.
Continue along the right-hand path in the direction of the hut by the Triglav Lakes over Štapce (straight path over Prode). The way forward initially climbs moderately through a rare larch forest, then climbs steeply and leads us over lane of dwarf pines to the Štapce lookout. At Štapce continue slightly right in the direction of Tičarice and Zelnarice (slightly left Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih) and continue the ascent along the path that first climbs through lane of dwarf pines, and then leads us to a short steep and especially in the wet for slipping dangerous jump. Above the jump, the path flattens out and turns to moderately steep grassy slopes, which are ascended in a few minutes' further walking to a small saddle where a marked path branches off to the left to Little Tičarica.
Continue in the direction of Zelnarice along a relatively steep path which first crosses the slopes of Mala Tičarica and then Velika Tičarica. After Velika Tičarica, the path passes onto a wide grassy ridge along which you then climb. After a few minutes of easy walking, the path begins to climb steeply up a partly grassy slope. The steepness quickly wears off, and the path leads us to the vast meadows to the south of the precipitous and overhanging Kopica. Cross the open meadows to the foot of the upper slope of Kopica, and then, when you reach the edge of the cliff, the waymarked path turns right and climbs across a small scree slope. Beyond the scree, the path turns left and then begins a steep climb in a traverse. At a small, indistinct hollow, the marked path approaches the ridge and turns gently to the right. The path continues on to a very steep and dangerous slope (30 m), then the slope on which you are walking is slightly flattened. This is followed by a cross-climb slightly below the ridge, and then the path leads us to the top slope of Mala Zelnarice. Here the path starts to climb steeply and after about 15 minutes of increasingly scenic walking leads us to the top of Mala Zelnarice.
From Mala Zelnarica, continue slightly to the right along the marked path, which begins to descend towards the Vrata Preval. The path from the top descends steeply at first, then turns slightly to the left, where it soon leads to the stubs between Mala and Velika Zelnarica. From here we continue on the marked path for another 10 m, and then, when a beautiful passage opens up on our left, we leave it and continue our ascent on the easier trackless path. After a few minutes' ascent along the trackless path, you will reach the ridge of Velika Zelarica, where you will step onto a less visible path, which you will follow to the right. This "path", which continues mostly along the ridge, is then followed all the way to the top, which is reached after a few minutes of further walking. Blato - Ovčarija 2:15, Ovčarija - Velika Zelnarica 3:30.

On the way: Planina Dedno Polje (1560m), Planina Ovčarija (1660m), Štapce (1851m), Mala Zelnarica (2310m)

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