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Slovenian alpine pastures in all seasons

velkavrh13. 06. 2017 06:38:50

Finally alpine pasture Slapnik came up, which is actually the only pasture across whose yard we go, if we go from alpine pasture Kuhinja direct to Krn. Across alpine pasture Zaslap we go only past. Path from Krn leads past woods behind pasture for alpine pastures Zaslap and somehow unintentionally avoid it. Path further goes past buildings at alpine pasture Slapnik. They are lined up completely identical in row like soldiers. Rumor has it there was once even military settlement. They really have grey roofs noticeable already from alpine pasture Kuhinja. We go past troughs for cattle watering. Cattle visible close on pasture. No sign of cheesemaking here. Supposedly more barren livestock grazed here someone wrote. Once, if I can say so, milk from pastures under Krn was taken to valley to dairy and cheesery Planika. Now mostly on these pastures have renovated dairies and they cheese themselves and produce geographically protected Tolminc cheese.

velkavrh16. 06. 2017 15:52:07

Many times in past years I was at alpine pasture Preval. Preval is wide saddle and pasture rising above valleys of Draga stream on the west and Šental valley of Mošenik stream on the east. On the north steeply rises last peak of Begunjščica ridge - Begunjska Vrtača - 1991m. On pasture is alpine dairy hut - planšarija - open type. Called Planšarija Prevala. Excellent service! This is grazing, milking pasture. We reach it from several directions. Most known surely from Ljubelj via Born tunnels. This path is attractive, secured. Other access from Begunj past guesthouse Draga through Luknja gorge - very interesting varied path initially along Begunjščica stream. We even reach safety devices where safely climb over gorge. From path see stream waterfalls. If not turn into gorge go further past alpine pasture Planinca and from there to pasture. Less known access from Lajb near Podljubelj over Potočnikov graben. This pasture is start further to Begunjščica ridge over Kalvarija. To right from pasture go over Roža to Roblekov dom at Begunjščica - 1657m. Signposts here plenty - will direct us correctly.

Close to Planšarija - the roof has already appeared.

On the alpine pasture they have many visitors all summer.

Around Planšarija there are many tables and benches to refresh and sit.

History of pastoralism in these mountains.

Grazing mainly takes place on the vast pasture on the opposite bank below Begunjska Vrtača, where there is a fairly flat beautiful pasture extending far in length. A few years ago I inspected it myself. At that time I saw some shed that was already collap

velkavrh17. 06. 2017 18:20:01

Today to Logarska dolina. On way to Matkovo okno we went past little known alpine pasture Zabrložnice. To here leads hunting path. This path is quite steep and levels only shortly before pasture. On pasture is hunting hut. On pasture there was once hut, long gone now. Pasture was as it seems completely overgrown. But probably cleared recently.

Alpine pasture Zabrložnica with hunting cabin.

They cleaned it quite well. I don't believe they grazed anything else here but sheep.

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velkavrh29. 06. 2017 17:26:15

This time I stumbled upon a new mountain pasture in the Karawanks. It's Planina pod Belščico. I got there from Valvasorjev dom. Above Potoška planina it turns at Urbas spring onto a path that leads us to Beljščica bivouac 1750m. There we already see the shepherd's hut and when we get to it that's Planina pod Belščico. If we go further along the path we reach planina Stamare.

Along the road from Valvazorja to the junction at Urbas spring.

Hrašenska planina, allegedly more correctly Vrbanska planina.

At the shepherd's hut on Hrašenska planina, formerly also planina Srednica.

velkavrh29. 06. 2017 17:55:53

I spotted another mountain pasture when we were returning from Stol. That's Stara planina, which lies above Zabreška planina. It's basically one huge pasture. I don't know if there was ever any hut there.

I assume that livestock from Zabreška planina also grazes here.

ločanka29. 06. 2017 18:19:38

Branko, who says that's Hrašenska planina (above), are you sure? I think it's pl.pod Belščico.

Hrašenska planina (2 years ago it said Pl.Srednica on the sign)

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velkavrh30. 06. 2017 05:36:07

I was mistaken, I've already corrected it.

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velkavrh21. 07. 2017 15:24:51

Yesterday after a long time I was again at Krnsko jezero. Krnska jezera are three - Dupeljsko, Krnsko and Jezero v Lužnici. Behind Dom pri Krnskih jezerih somehow Planina Duplje starts. On this pasture there's only one big mountain dairy. They have sheep and cattle. Sheep were in the enclosure. Cattle were grazing on the lower pasture, which during heavy rains even turns into mini lakes. I saw that years ago. The dairy offers dairy products - including very good sheep-cow cheese. They were already selling it.

Here is already the Duplje pasture - definitely.

The alpine dairy with associated buildings—cheese dairy, barns—is large.

The sheep are surely in the fold because of the wolves.

Cattle were grazing on the lower pasture—under the path to Krn Lake.

velkavrh1. 09. 2017 08:56:35

After a whole month I finally found a new mountain pasture. This time in Austria. Under the Karawanks on the Austrian side there are loads of pastures - also grazing ones. We encountered one on the way to Lokovnikov Grintavec and it even has that name - Lokovnikova planina. It even has a spring. It's a grazing pasture. Currently around twenty heads of livestock are grazing there.

Nice spot for a snack at the beginning of the mountain pasture.

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turbo1. 09. 2017 09:13:45

@velkavrh

Since I see you also visit Austrian areas, a bit of Italian ones wink

Here's a link where mountain pastures in neighboring Friuli-Venezia Giulia are listed. Some are too far for a sensible day trip, but quite a few are right across the border in the western Julian Alps and nearby Carnic areas:

http://www.malghefvg.it/de/malghe?set_language=de

velkavrh1. 09. 2017 14:04:35

I will never run out of mountain pastures, because I've surely found 150 just in Triglav National Park - I can't believe it. When I can no longer manage two-thousanders I'll explore pastures even more, also across the border. I haven't circled all of Jezersko pastures yet. Still missing some Pokljuka and Bohinj pastures, and even three under the Košuta ridge - planina Dolžanka, Krnica, Zali potok. Under Jelendol there are still Rovt, both Konščici - I was on both years ago, Vetrh, Fevča. Brsnina I finally found last year. Maybe I missed some.

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djimuzl1. 09. 2017 14:11:39

Recently I read the book by M. Kajzer: Bovško - from pasture to pasture. Interesting insight into the history of Trentar and other pastures from that area. http://www.gore-ljudje.net/novosti/64687/

velkavrh1. 09. 2017 15:46:44

Thanks djimuzl! I hadn't heard of this book yet. I'll try to find it in the library. Interesting term prestaja. So far I've read about predlanina, where farmers first took the livestock and then after a week to the real pasture. After three four weeks they returned to predlanine when the grass grew back. I think they repeated this three times in the grazing season, if I read correctly. I think I read that on panels about pasture management on pastures under Krn - Sleme etc. We also come across some pre-pastures - rovte, which today are just recreation areas - usually with weekend cottages there.

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velkavrh2. 09. 2017 18:20:49

Two years ago I went from Lazovski pass to Ograde. At the end of the Ogradov ridge, when we already start descending, I noticed a couple of ruins. It's Planina na Ogradeh. Not even the oldest people in the Bohinj area remember when it was abandoned. Even today, ruins of quite a few buildings are clearly visible. Apparently, there was only one owner of this alpine pasture and the buildings.

The alpine pasture was at an altitude of 1735 m.

velkavrh2. 09. 2017 18:25:10

As I mentioned, last year I didn't see the ruins of buildings on Spodnji Tosc alpine pasture at all, even though I passed by, it has overgrown so much. Just two years ago I could clearly see them from Studorski pass. Yes, abandoned alpine pastures overgrow. Last year, for example, I didn't find the ruins of Trstje alpine pasture at all, which is on the left side of the path if we go over Čiprje to Vodnikov dom. I will surely visit both Grintovice alpine pastures and the abandoned Vrtača alpine pasture, which is behind both Grintovice. I saw the junction for these three alpine pastures some year ago, when I went from Blato alpine pasture to Krstenica alpine pasture, about half an hour from Blato. In the forest, the signpost directs you right downhill.

I was even mistaken thinking it was Spodnja Grintovica pasture, as it lies higher than Zgornja Grintovica pasture. I haven't visited these two pastures yet.

velkavrh2. 09. 2017 18:48:54

From Ogradi I saw the Jezerce alpine pasture, which is behind Krstenica alpine pasture and livestock is usually grazed there. I have never gone further from Krstenica alpine pasture.

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velkavrh4. 09. 2017 19:57:05

Today I decided to find the little-known Četeže alpine pasture, which is somehow the lowest-lying alpine pasture above Srednja vas in Bohinj. There are two approaches to it. Either directly from Srednja vas or from Jereka via Spodnje Podjelje and Javornica alpine pasture. I went up from Srednja vas in Bohinj. At the end of the village, we turn into the gorge of the Ribnica stream and after the little bridge, we spot a path junction on the right side and that's our right path. The junction is not marked at all. The path then runs along the old abandoned cart track, which was once the main path to the alpine pasture. Nowadays it is overgrowing and filling up. Several times the path turns directly onto the cart track or crosses it. The path seems to be used very little. But it is trodden and we can't miss it. It is quite steep though. To the alpine pasture we have about an hour's walk. We need to overcome just over 300m of elevation difference - Srednja vas 590m, Četeže alpine pasture 937m. Suddenly we find ourselves at the beautiful alpine pasture. Here we find four nicely maintained huts. The alpine pasture is nicely mowed - dry hay unfortunately lies in piles on the edge of the alpine pasture. The alpine pasture has a spring of good water.

I continued to Javornica alpine pasture, where I had been some year ago from Šeh alpine pasture and further on the steep path to the village Zgornje Podjelje.

The track is still visible but getting filled in.

We have arrived at the alpine pasture Četeže. Somewhere it is noted only as the hay shed Četeže.

Why the mrva rejected itself is not clear to me.

Of the once mighty huts, only ruins remain.

The forest road reaches the alpine pasture from Zgornje Podjelje.

On the way we come to two that one might call rovti or hay sheds.

Thus we reach the alpine pasture Javornica. Now I know exactly which one it is.

Along the way we also encounter a couple of nice meadows and what I would call hay sheds.

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velkavrh8. 09. 2017 19:35:24

Today I managed to visit only Štularjeva alpine pasture on the way to Češka koča at Spodnje Ravne. At the large parking lot, we must immediately turn right - the path is marked. From here we have 2 hours to Češka koča. The path rises quite quickly and is quite steep. Before the alpine pasture, a surprise awaits us - a completely new road that takes us to the alpine pasture. It looks like the owners of the alpine pasture will renovate the hut on the alpine pasture.

On the way back, I turned in Zgornje Jezersko into Makekovo Kočno and tried to find Povšnarjeva alpine pasture, which is supposed to be somewhere at the end of the forest road - the path to it should lead at the end of the road to the left. On the map, there are even two buildings drawn on the alpine pasture. I drove along the forest road for about two-thirds of the way, then continued to the end of the road on foot. I continued along some cart track, but even that ended after about a hundred meters. On the way back, I noticed some path on the right side (if going up it's on the left side). I went a bit along it - it went steeply uphill, so I preferred to return to the forest road. In between, I also saw a nicely arranged viewpoint on the right side. Somewhere behind the junction to Veliki vrh there is a junction to Murijeva alpine pasture. I will go looking for that alpine pasture next time.

We cross a completely new road leading to the alpine pasture.

Hut on the pasture - just like I remember from thirty years ago.

But it hasn't overgrown in all these years.

From here it is still more than an hour's walk to the Češče koča.

Then I drove to Zg. Jezersko and to Makekovo Kočno. This is already a photo of the hut in the forest there around Kopišč.

At the end of the forest road there is even a bench - but no proper path ahead.

There was fog, but the forest road from Makekove Kočna is wide and well maintained.

On the panel at Zg. Jezersko you can see exactly where I drove.

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velkavrh14. 09. 2017 20:16:09

Today I found a new alpine pasture in the Bled area. This is Vršana alpine pasture. But it's not so easy to get to it. From Bled we drive towards Bohinj and soon turn left into the village Kupljenik and at the end of the village towards Talež. At this time the path from the Lenčk farm is closed. I did go along it, but I warn that one should not walk on it. At the path junction at the monument, we turn right onto a quite dilapidated abandoned cart track. Soon we will spot the alpine pasture on the left. On the alpine pasture there are two small huts for storing hay. At the same time, the huts serve as feeding places for wild game. The alpine pasture is nicely mowed. I don't know if they bring any livestock up there for grazing.

In this area there are quite a few alpine pastures that I will try to find this year - Ricman, Oblakova, Talež, Prihod, Čmarjeva, Žnidarjeva, Ribenska, Tamar and Selska.

At the end of Kupljenik village towards Talež.

velkavrh14. 09. 2017 20:52:52

Only when reviewing the alpine pastures in this area did I realize that I went across Prihod alpine pasture. On the alpine pasture there is a hay shed and a hunting lookout.