Babni Vrt - Mali Grintovec (via Sveti Lovrenc)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway we take the Brnik exit; when we reach the Mengeš - Kranj road, we continue left towards Kranj. On the main road towards Kranj we drive to the first roundabout, from where we take the first exit right in the direction of Šenčur. Through Šenčur we continue on the main road, then when we reach the Kranj - Zgornje Jezersko road, we continue right in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor we leave the main road and continue driving left towards the center of the mentioned settlement; from there we follow the signs for the Bašelj settlement. A little after the Bašelj settlement the road descends to the Milka stream and crosses it over a bridge. Here a road branches off to the right, by which we arrive in Babni Vrt; we drive above the settlement, where the asphalt road towards the last homestead turns left, and we continue right. Further, we drive past the quarry, and behind it we arrive at a smaller crossroad, at which we park in an appropriate place.
B) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway we take the Kranj west exit, then we continue driving towards Golnik. When we arrive in Tenetiše we leave the main road towards Golnik and continue driving right in the direction of Trstenik. Approximately 1 km after the Trstenik settlement we arrive at a smaller crossroad, where first to the left branches off the road towards the Povlje settlement, a few 100 m ahead also towards Babni Vrt. We continue towards Babni Vrt; from the crossroad above the settlement we turn right onto a macadam road, along which we then drive past the quarry. We park behind the quarry in an appropriate place at the next crossroad.

Path description:
From the starting point we continue on the left road, which continues along the right side of the quarry (straight path under Storžič); a little further it splits into two wide cart tracks. We continue on the right cart track, which goes immediately into the forest, then first gently, but after the left serpentine moderately to steeply ascends. Further at the junctions we follow the right directions; on a smaller saddle we continue left upwards on the poorer cart track, which soon ends. From the end of the cart track or path we start steeply ascending on the forest path; along it in a few minutes we reach another cart track, which we follow to the right, along which we quickly join the path from Bašelj or Laški.
We continue left upwards and after a minute or two of further walking we arrive at Dom na Lovrencu.
From the hut we continue in the direction of Javornik, Velika and Mala Poljana, Kališče and Storžič, on the path which moderately ascends through the forest. The well-trodden path quickly takes us out of the forest onto a vast hayfield, across which we walk with nice views to the church of St. Lovrenc.
Behind the church the path returns to the forest and starts descending towards a marked junction a few minutes away, where we continue straight in the direction of Storžič and Kališče.
Further we continue in the direction of Storžič still along the wide path, which slightly ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher the path brings us out of the forest and beautiful views open onto the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness does not relent all the way to the bench at the junction.
Left leads the marked path towards Javornik and Poljane; we head right towards Kališče. The path from the junction becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. Further we traverse the slopes towards the east for a long time. Along the path forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in some places. During the traverse the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply, several times it also slightly descends. In the second part of the traverse the path brings us to the spring below Bašeljsko sedlo. Here the path turns slightly to the right and continues traversing the slopes until it brings us to the marked junction, where we continue straight in the direction of Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
The path ahead steeply ascends through the belt of dwarf pines and brings us, with nice views of the neighbouring Mali Grintovec, onto the dwarf pine-covered ridge of Bašeljski vrh, where in the next few minutes we arrive at the next well-marked junction, where we continue on the lower right path (left Bašeljski vrh) in the direction of Mačensko sedlo.
Follows the traverse of Bašeljski vrh along the path which continues with some shorter ascents and descents. When the traverse ends we arrive at Mačensko sedlo, where from the left joins the marked path from Bašeljski vrh, from the right the unmarked path through the Suha valley.
We continue straight in the direction of Mali Grintovec along the path which starts relatively steeply ascending the western slope of the mentioned mountain. After approximately half an hour of walking from Mačensko sedlo we arrive at the marked junction, where from the right joins the path from Dolga njiva. We continue left and after a few 10 steps of further walking we arrive at the summit of Mali Grintovec.

On the way: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (860m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m), Mačensko sedlo (1622m)