Šport hotel - Debeli vrh above Lipanca
Starting point: Šport hotel (1280 m)
| Lat/Lon: | 46,3382°N 13,9616°E |
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Time of walking: 3 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 682 m
Altitude difference po putu: 785 m
Map: TNP 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): ice axe, crampons
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Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Lesce and follow the road in the direction of Bled, where you will be directed to the right at the semaphorised crossroads marked for Pokljuka. Follow this road, which takes you through a few villages in the lower part and then starts to climb steeply, to the Sport Hotel on Pokljuka. Park in a suitable space on the roadside or near the hotel. Only guests are allowed to park in front of the hotel.
Path description:
From the Sport Hotel, follow the road back to the junction with the main road, then continue the ascent towards Rudni Polje. After about 100 m of walking along the main road, a forest road branches off to the right, leading quickly into a spruce forest. Follow this road, which climbs gently and along which you can see some signs, until it ends at a large turning point. At the end of the road, there is a wide marked cart track, which is followed at a moderate gradient. After a short ascent, Cart track lays down and then gradually starts to descend. After a few minutes of descending, you emerge from the forest onto the vast mountain pasture of Zajavornik.
Once on mountain pasture, the trail descends gently for a while and then leads into the heart of mountain pasture, where you can see a number of shepherd's (weekend) cottages. The path then crosses a short strip of wodland, after which it emerges on a dirt road (starting point).
Cross the road, as the markings on Blejska koča direct you to a wide and at first still winding path. The path continues through initially sparse and then increasingly dense forest. Higher up, we cross a forest road, and the path gradually becomes steeper. Soon merge with the path from the monument (Pri Rupah), then join the wide cart track (starting point Medvedova konta) just a little further on. The ascent continues along cart track, which quickly leads to the lower part of mountain pasture Lipanec. Here we see a sign that we are entering a grazing area, which warns us not to take shortcuts. Continue along the wide path, which takes you past the memorial plaque and leads you in a few minutes to Blejska koča on Lipanca.
From the hut, continue left towards Viševnik and Mrežce along the path, which soon turns left down the path towards Rudné polje. Continue straight ahead and after a short ascent a moderately steep path leads to the next crossroads, where you continue in the direction of Viševnik (to the right Mrežce steep path). The path then crosses an avalanche area in a slight downhill slope in unfavourable conditions and starts to climb slightly on the other side. The path climbs through increasingly sparse forest and soon leads to a crossroads below the summit of Mrežce. Continue left (right Mrežce 2 minutes) along the path which crosses the southern slopes of a lesser-known peak (Vrh Razora), after which you reach the next slightly less visible crossroads.
Continue slightly right towards Debeli vrh (slightly left Viševnik) along a trail that is a bit harder to follow in places, but is marked. After a short climb up a grassy slope surrounded by dwarf pines, we reach the summit, which offers a fine view.
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