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Slovenian alpine pastures in all seasons

velkavrh20. 10. 2013 14:13:29

I've decided to finally start the new topic about Slovenian alpine pastures that I've been thinking about for some time. I know, many are already described under certain mountains. Here we should describe them a bit more extensively and present them with pictures too. Many of them haven't been pastures for many years. Slowly scree and other undergrowth and also forest are overgrowing them. Few people remember even the names of many. I checked only the Bohinj and Pokljuka part and counted about fifty. I will visit them in all seasons and forward them to your homes.

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velkavrh20. 10. 2013 14:20:02

Already today starts with the first visited yesterday and walked lengthwise and crosswise. This is Planina Konjščica. It's not far from Rudno Polje and from the parking above Rudno Polje we're there in three quarters of an hour. Just as quickly if we drive past the biathlon stadium to Uskovnica and soon after the center turn right onto the gravel road and park somewhere at the end of the road. The planina is a pasture. In summer the mountain hut is open, offering home-cooked meals from buckwheat polenta to šnopček.

In the forest a poorly visible signpost directs us left to the alpine pasture.

The markers are poorly visible but we won't get lost anyway.

Water flows to the alpine pasture from all directions.

The alpine pasture has its own water source.

The alpine pasture is already within reach.

Here is the planšarija which offers us homemade treats in summer.

I don't know what this would be used for.

On the pastures I'm interested in the architecture of old huts or shepherds' houses.

For the Bohinj mountains it is characteristic that they had an open space below for livestock, like a kind of open stable. Above was the living space for the shepherd.

Originally, all the huts were covered with shingles and wooden-built. Nowadays, many are used as weekend homes and are mostly renovated.

Still a view of the pasture, as we are already heading towards Studorski preval.

Up here is a path junction, and from here we can also descend to the pasture and continue to Rudno polje.

velkavrh20. 10. 2013 15:05:54

As the second planina on my yesterday's route is Planina Jezerce, if I'm correctly informed. This is an extensive grassy plain located somehow below Mali Draški Vrh, on the left the path continues to Studorski Preval, on the right into a valley that takes us to Srenjski Preval. From the direction of Studorski Preval even a clear and cold spring flows, which quickly sinks when it reaches the scree at the beginning of the planina. On the planina there are no visible traces that there were huts here and I've never seen grazing livestock on this planina. I haven't noticed when they even grazed here.

At the start of the pasture there are signposts.

To the left it continues into a smaller scree where a spring sinks away.

On the left side there is even a bench for resting.

From that side, the path to Studorski praval continues.

From the right it ends at a water trough, from where a steep path to Srenjski preval continues.

View of the pasture while crossing the steep slope of Mali Draški vrh.

franca20. 10. 2013 18:06:43

On Planina Jezerce there are no huts, but livestock grazes in summer, probably from Planina Konjščica. The picture was taken in 2009.

pikica120. 10. 2013 19:13:06

Now you're a bit too fast @primoza this is another Jezerce than the one you have in mind mežikanje

Poorly looked at the picture.

tinky20. 10. 2013 19:23:59

This Jezerce is above the Konjščica pasture below Studorski saddle.

miri20. 10. 2013 19:30:11

This is what @primoza meant

tinky20. 10. 2013 19:57:17

This one is under Jezerski stog.

velkavrh21. 10. 2013 15:13:08

I know quite a few pastures with this name. The one you're mentioning is at the foot of Ogradi, Eve and Jezerski stog. Next year I'll definitely visit it.

tinky21. 10. 2013 15:49:30

Brane, this one is on miri's picture.

velkavrh27. 10. 2013 18:46:45

My next planina is Dovška Rožca. We reach it from Dovje. From the village a gravel road takes us first to Planina Ravne. These are actually pastures and meadows. There are hardly any real huts. They've all somehow been turned into weekend homes. The path is marked with signposts. We can drive to the barrier. The last part of the road to the barrier is bad. Then soon after the barrier we can go on the marked steep path to the planina or just on the road, which is even concrete in front of the mountain hut on the planina. On the planina there's a nice mountain hut, open through summer and offering home-cooked meals. They graze here in summer. The planina is somehow surrounded or limited by a wire fence.

Transition to the pasture area of Planina Dovška Rožca.

The alpine pasture is extensive, somehow bounded by a wire fence.

View already from the path to Dovška Baba on the alpine pasture.

This is how the alpine pasture is fenced with wire, as we return along the hayfields from the ridge.

The wooden trough for watering cattle below the alpine meadow has served its time. At the alpine meadow there are concrete troughs for watering cattle.

From the alpine meadow a concreted path leads.

Trees on the path towards the alpine pasture on the road.

velkavrh28. 10. 2013 09:56:00

Somehow I'm now in the Karavanke and looking at the Golica group. None of the peaks exceeds 2000 m and we consider this group mid-mountain. First I decided to go to Dovška Baba and below it Planina Dovška Rožca, which I presented in the previous post. But before it there's the uncharacteristic Planina Ravne, which somehow doesn't have a real character. It's more meadows - even fertilized as I saw and pastures that owners fence with fences. In between there's also forest like below under the path and above. We reach it from Dovje and from Plavški Rovt. I came from Dovje where a well-maintained gravel road leads. That it's a planina I found out in the guide Karavanke by Klemen Janša. Most huts or shepherds' huts the owners have turned into weekend homes. Some are even brand new. Below the road I even spotted one abandoned and dilapidated one and I present it pictorially separately.

The Golica group has a whole bunch of planinas - Planina Rožca, Jeseniška Planina, Belska Planina or Planina Svečica, Planina Seča, Planina Pusti Rovt, Planina pod Golico. Somehow rovti-like areas are also considered planinas here. The term laz is not used here.

I'll send pictures in a day or so.

The pasture is actually extensive. Now it looks more meadow-like. Fenced meadows are mown.

Mainly the old former huts are gone. There are more new facilities used for recreation.

Stemi sanmi transported hay to the valley in winter.

The masonry part of the hut seems to have been habitable. The rest of the building was wooden and shingled.

ljubitelj gora28. 10. 2013 12:41:45

Yesterday Planina Za Skalo

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velkavrh31. 10. 2013 18:00:08

Today visit to the alpine pasture under Mokrica. That's Mokriška planina or Ovčarija pasture. It's one of the harder accessible in KSA. Lies above Kamniška Bistrica in a deep cirque between Košuta and Mokrica. A few meters lower is the famous Medvedja cave with paleolithic finds from about 35,000 years ago. To the right of the cave descends the steep Farjev landslide into the bottom of Kamniška Bistrica valley. The pasture was abandoned around 1880. They mainly grazed small livestock. The huts collapsed - stone remains of former shepherds' huts are still visible. You can reach the pasture by descent from the top of Mokrica or from Korošica valley on a nice mountain road - start is on the left side of the cableway to Velika planina. After a few km of mountain road at the big bend where the marked path to Krvavec is, then we go with numerous zigzags past the hunting hut to the pasture itself. The pasture is little known. I myself didn't know about it until recently.

Stone remains of former shepherds' huts.

View of the upper part of the pasture, where we ascend to Mokrico.

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franca1. 11. 2013 11:20:54

on the 6th picture there are the doors with which the Medvedja cave was closed for a short time

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gmirko1. 11. 2013 12:46:20

Spring at Planina Jezerce in summer 2013

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velkavrh2. 11. 2013 12:26:42

Today I'm also forwarding Planina Ravne, which I passed last week on the tour to Dovška Baba. This is an uncharacteristic planina above Dovje. It's more pastures or even fertilized meadows. The plots are separated by fences. In between there are also wooded areas. Mostly old huts are remodeled into weekend homes. There are even new ones, I found even one abandoned and present it separately. You get here either from the village Dovje or from the other direction from Plavški Rovt.

This is below the signpost which directs us to Dovška Baba to the left upwards, straight ahead one reaches Plavški rovt.

Already on the road. On both sides of the road there are these meadows or pastures. Mostly they are large on the upper side of the road.

On the lower side of the road, however, I find an abandoned barn and a shepherd's hut.

This is that abandoned barn which had space for livestock downstairs, upstairs it was a hayloft for storing hay for the winter.

With these sleds they transported hay to the valley in winter.

Next to it is the shepherd's hut in which the shepherd lived.

Higher up along the road there are more buildings and also below.

This, however, is a wonderful weekend house.

velkavrh10. 11. 2013 14:33:25

Today, on this foggy, gloomy and damp morning, I went on a November exploration of the new road to Planina Osredek. To Planina Osredek we can reach from the Krvavec direction - that is from Ambrož by two paths - the lower one via Pokovš and the upper one. The upper starts at the big bend of the asphalt road that goes towards Krvavec. The start is marked on a tree. Here we turn right onto a nice forest gravel road. This brings us to the new roads that were made to Planina Osredek this past summer. There's a barrier here. I didn't see any no-walking sign at it, so today I went along it. Otherwise, up at the bend there's a marked path to the pasture and soon we have a junction where the path branches down directly to the pasture - it's marked and crosses this new road too. Straight on the path leads above the pasture and here we can descend down, further it leads to Kamniški vrh, somewhere in between also to Krvavec. On the pasture itself there are three huts with auxiliary buildings. Two are close together and one even has a stamp and a box for entries with a book. There are enough resting spots with benches. On the lower side on the left there's another hut - nice one. Under it there's water. At the upper two huts the water supply is cut off. Next to these two huts there used to be another one, but it's long gone. Nobody mows the pasture. It hasn't been a grazing pasture for a long time.

At this large bend above Ambrož there is a branch-off to a nice forest road on the right.

The path start is marked, unfortunately the sign has been engulfed by a tree.

The path seems newly marked or the marks renewed - in summer they weren't there yet.

We reach a new road that would very quickly bring us to the pasture.

Right above the pasture, however, impassable passage.

We arrive at the pasture above. Will this hold the slope?

What this is supposed to mean at the entrance to the pasture, I don't know.

Foggy view from the top of the pasture to two huts.

On this hut is a sign with the pasture's designation.

And there's also a stamp and a little box nearby.

Unfortunately there is no water here. Consequence of road construction.

I come here several times a year. I will come in winter too.

I descend to the lower part of the pasture.

There is also a small spring here. In summer there is always water here. It never dries up. Further a path leads to Senožeta and Kamniški vrh. Meanwhile another path joins it, coming from Korošaških slapov.

Above the water is also the third hut with an auxiliary structure.

The area around the hut is mown and tidy. I spoke with a gentleman who was here. He told me a lot about the pasture and its owners.

Landslide due to the new road on the path.

Once we push through the gully we are on a pleasant path that goes uphill and joins the path that turns right to Kamniški vrh, to the left back to Ambrož.

We must always stick to the left forks, the right ones lead to Kriška planina and onwards to Krvavec.

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Apolonija10. 11. 2013 19:33:06

Brane, only today, on your recommendation, I looked at this page. Your first visited Konjščica is my favorite planina for a walk in summer heat, because a pleasant shady path leads there, suitable also for small children. I mean the path you mentioned as the second one. For most part a torrent accompanies it a few meters below, which higher up widens into gorges too. The friendly mountain hut keepers offer the best cottage cheese struklji in the world! Besides polenta, sour milk, cheese, coffee, tea... On the planina you find tons of alpine flowers, you know. That new building whose purpose you wonder about is a new milking parlor for cows. You're right. Cows from this planina also go to Jezerce.
But I don't recommend visiting by car to anyone.

Adding pictures of the torrent. Best regards

velkavrh16. 11. 2013 16:03:08

Today I went to explore the pastures in the Jezersko area. I took the data from the Jezersko with surroundings map. On the right side of the road towards the border there are only three pastures: Murijeva, Povšnarjeva and Štularjeva. From the left are Virnikova, Ankova, Rakeževa, Močnikova, Hajniharjeva. Planina Javornik, which is also on the left side, belongs more to the Tržič part. The border pasture is also Roblekova on this side, on the right Jenkova.

This time I went to the border to Jezerski vrh and from there to Rakeževa planina. I went back a bit on the road and to the right in the direction of the valley a forest path branches off, which leads to some house that is abandoned, in front of the house the path turns right and brings us somehow to Rakeževa planina. But you can also reach the pasture via a nicer gravel road, which at the very top near the former border crossing turns before the Austrian border to the left. Shortly after that, there should be the high mountain farm Rakež under the road, but I didn't see it. I returned on this road, indeed. The pasture is a grazing one, up there is a barn, has water, is fairly large.

Further one should be able to reach Ankova planina. I'm not sure if I found it. I came to the former guardhouse, which is of course abandoned and decaying. Further I reached Roblekova planina, which I will present separately. This is the border pasture.

Today there was fog on Jezerski vrh, so visibility was poor.

Forest road leading to Rakeževa planina - snow on the road.

View from the road to the foggy planina.

On top of the planina there is some transmitter.

There is plenty of pasture. The planina is fenced.

A nice road leads here from above the alpine pasture.

I really don't know what this object is for.

Next to it is a nice resting spot. From here there is a beautiful view of Jezersko.

The guardhouse is large and has many accompanying structures nearby, including a watchtower. It's a pity it's decaying. There has been no electricity here for a long time. The electric poles and wires lie on the ground along the road.

velkavrh16. 11. 2013 16:24:43

As the second pasture of Jezersko, I present Roblekova planina, which is a border pasture. You reach it from Jezerski vrh via a nice gravel road. Before the border we turn left onto it. We go on the road past Rakeževa and Ankova pastures to Roblekova planina. On the pasture there is only one hut, which they are renovating. It is on the Austrian side. The pasture looks medium-sized, no traces that it is grazing.