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Slovenian alpine pastures in all seasons

velkavrh12. 06. 2014 06:04:26

Then return and go see up close Velo polje pasture. Huge plain. Sadly spring storm buries it though built two retaining walls at valley end. Part of valley already completely buried. On it operates shepherd's hut open type in summer kindly serve. Here point on cheese path like on Konnjščica pasture. Even building something new at hut. Behind hut this time noticed milking shed which didn't notice previous visits. No livestock on pasture yet. Know owner had chickens here last year. On pasture only one building still in function converted to nice holiday cottage. Rest decaying or decayed-shame. Pasture has own spring with trough for livestock. Water not yet open-checked.

Watchdog at the beginning of the pasture.

The markers will need to be straightened a bit.

The last part of the pasture still has it too.

The planšarija with auxiliary buildings is at the beginning of the pasture on the left side. They are even building something new.

On the right is a typical building of these mountains, below space for livestock, above for the shepherd.

Straight ahead the path leads us to a pleasant alpine pasture. There are no cows or shepherd yet. They will probably arrive soon.

This is a point of the Bohinj cheese-making path.

The back side of the alpine pasture surprises me with panels.

At Vodnikov dom there are no more panels.

Vodnikov dom is managed by PD Srednja vas v Bohinju.

There is enough space for sitting around the alpine pasture.

Behind the alpine pasture this object is hidden,

This is a milking pen. You simply lead the cow into the pen and lock it here. On the slightly lower terrain pit the shepherd has his stool and can milk calmly, without worry that the cow might escape somewhere.

I head to the right part of the pasture too, where this abandoned object is - what a shame.

Next to it is a trough for watering the livestock.

To this part a lot of gravel has been washed onto the pasture.

Further ahead to the hut, which is converted into a recreational object, all in ruins or abandoned.

Even a bit away from the alpine pasture there are ruins.

This is already a previously presented characteristic object of these pasture mountains.

This is on the right side the last beautiful holiday object.

The alpine pasture thus says goodbye to the hikers.

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velkavrh15. 06. 2014 16:00:42

Today again to Velika planina over Gojška planina. Now pasture no longer wintery as it was this year at first visit.

Upper part of the alpine pasture, if I'm not mistaken.

velkavrh15. 06. 2014 16:04:45

Then comes Mala planina.

Miniature replica of an old hut on these mountains.

All pastures are fenced off; it is precisely known where the grazing area of the mountain is.

velkavrh15. 06. 2014 16:19:39

Now to Velika Planina.

Everything is nicely equipped with these personal signposts.

Shepherd huts and objects used as vacation homes can be easily distinguished.

This is only the beginning part of Velika Planina,

There is also a museum cottage on the pasture.

velkavrh15. 06. 2014 16:28:34

Now also to the last pasture I visited today-this time for the first time-Marjanine Njive.

Marjanine Njive is reached by gravel road from Rakova Ravna.

Under the road there are a couple of buildings.

The cross at the start of the pasture under the road must of course not be missing.

This cottage seemed to me a real shepherd's hut.

Opposite it looks like a recreational building.

Here I reached the pasture - I didn't see the bull.

There are somehow three buildings at the pasture.

Behind this big tree I spot this - does it pasture here?

At the top of the pasture another cross - the pasture is safe.

velkavrh19. 06. 2014 17:38:35

Yesterday on the way to Črna Prst I took a good look at the pasture Pod Črno Goro. We can reach this pasture basically from two sides. From the saddle below Črna Prst the path takes us right into the valley across this pasture. From the valley it's best to drive from Bohinjska Bistrica towards Soriška Planina. Behind the village Nemški Rovt there is a turn-off on the right to a good gravel road. We drive past Planina Vresje and then also past Planina Strmna, which I will explore another time. It's nice little meadows with a few huts and holiday buildings. We drive quite a few km along this gravel road, also past the cable car facilities on Kobla. The road brings us to the first sign for Črna Prst. Here nearby we park the vehicle and go along the marked path to the pasture. In a good hour we are at the pasture. The pasture has several buildings that seem to be used only for holiday purposes. The pasture itself is a nice plain, not too big, completely overgrown with sorrel. Looks like they haven't grazed here for a long time. On one side it's surrounded by a canal that runs from the railway tunnel and was built already in Austria-Hungary and they drained excess water from the railway tunnel through it. I don't know if it still serves that purpose today. It still stands firm today and the canal leads into the valley.

Here our path to the alpine pasture begins.

Already before the beginning of the alpine pasture we notice this channel for draining water from the tunnel.

A channel runs along the edge of the alpine pasture.

This would be a beautiful pasture if they regularly cleared the sorrel.

On the right part of the alpine pasture along the edge there are huts and other structures.

This is the first from left to right if we continue towards Črna prst.

And other objects on the alpine pasture.

This is how this row of small buildings on the alpine pasture looks.

velkavrh22. 06. 2014 10:15:39

Yesterday past the interesting pasture Grajščica, which belongs to the Kepe group and the Western Karavanke Ridge in the Karavanks. We reach it if we drive to the mountain village Srednji Vrh above Gozd Martuljek. At the crossroads in the village we turn right onto the road, which is well maintained and drivable to the hunting hut behind Lepi Vrh-1278m. This road takes us more or less along the Hladnik stream straight to the hunting hut. Then behind the hut a nice path leads us to a pleasant pasture where they graze in summer. They even have a new plastic watering trough for livestock. The old wooden one has decayed. They brought even three large plastic water tanks. I saw that a pipe was laid to the tanks from the gully where the Hladnik stream flows. There are no huts on the pasture. But there is a mlaka, which probably dries up in summer. Currently the pasture is all green, no livestock yet for grazing. We descended to the pasture from Kresje, where from the hunting hut on the Austrian side a barely visible path turns to the pasture along some grassy valley or gully that at the end turns into the pasture.

We reach the hunting hut below Lepi vrh.

Here is the starting point in the high mountain village Srednji Vrh-large parking lot at the beginning of the village at the path junction.

miri22. 06. 2014 19:22:32

What is the difference between mlaka and kal?

sirt123. 06. 2014 09:28:54

There is none mežikanje

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pepč23. 06. 2014 14:26:05

Kal is the work of human hands.

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lizika23. 06. 2014 15:15:42

http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal

http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlaka

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velkavrh29. 06. 2014 06:31:40

Today I present the pasture Na Kraju on Spodnja Komna. This is a beautiful pasture right 15 minutes behind the hut Na Komni, which we reach via the old mule track from Ukanec - from the Savica waterfall left leads this old military path from WWI. It collapses here and there a bit. Alternatively we can go via Komarče, past Črno Lake and from there to Spodnja Komna and thus reach the pasture. Hikers pass by it when going to Krnsko Lake and to Krn or to Bogatinsko Sedlo left to Bogatin or right to Lanževica. The path also brings here from the Valley of Triglav Lakes. I have also reached here from Vogla. So there are as many accesses as you want. The Austrians used the favorable location of the pasture and the proximity of swamps in WWI to build a large military complex for wounded soldiers. They even ran a cargo cable car here from the valley. They had an officers' house, bakery and wooden chapel. After WWI all objects were left to decay. The hut Pod Bogatinom somehow originated from some military building. Even today remnants of the old building can be seen at the hut. Across the entire pasture there are still numerous ruins and arranged paths on the pasture, and even a water collector that is no longer in function. After WWI the pasture was used for cattle grazing, which they abandoned 25 years ago and today on the pasture besides the hut there are a few objects used for holiday purposes.

We can go to the pasture at Komarča past the beautiful Črno jezero.

Before the pasture a panel reminds us of WWI.

They also had a cemetery, before the pasture on the rock they arranged a memorial for fallen soldiers.

Short and concise - without superfluous words.

The pasture was crisscrossed with maintained paths. I descend to the pasture along the mule track under the hut.

Under the hut. Old foundations of a military building are still visible, which stood at the site of today's Koča pod Bogatinom.

On the mountain itself in the foreground there are some facilities for recreational purposes.

This used to be a water reservoir - long abandoned.

Then we can only explore the numerous ruins of military buildings.

It can be seen that the buildings were large and neatly arranged in the flat part of the mountain pasture.

Above the hospital section the road rises a little higher to the ruins of the officers' quarters.

You can't walk past all the objects in reality, there were so many - it was a real little military village.

Above the mountain pasture stood the officers' home.

We are leaving the mountain pasture with the hut.

velkavrh8. 07. 2014 09:21:24

I think this is part of Planina Strma, which is the second pasture along the mountain road that turns right soon after the village Nemški Rovt. Further we drive to Soriška Planina. If we go in the direction of the starting point for Planina Za Liscem, a path branches off to the right to a beautiful meadow with objects. It looks like this is the central part of the pasture. From the road other buildings are visible, but the forest hides them. This part of the pasture is unmown. Objects are partly used for hay storage. There is also a nice residential object here. I walked to this meadow. Lower along the road on the same side there were more objects. The road also turns from the same side to a beautiful meadow - also unmown. I think these two pastures with objects belong to the same pasture.

Next to it is a nice small living structure.

But this is already the next meadow on the same side of the road. This one is slightly set back from the road; between the road and the meadow there is forest.

These are flat little meadows - like huge cleared clearings in the forests. Some shack at the end of the meadow.

Kozolec is also here. It seems they use these meadows only for haymaking, but it seems to me it's already too late for mowing, as the grass is all overripe.

velkavrh8. 07. 2014 09:37:59

The next pasture is the first from the junction and I think it's called Vresje. So it's about two uncharacteristic flat pastures in the middle of forests. This one is on the opposite side, that is from the left, if we go towards pasture Za Liscem. The central part of the pasture is more together with several objects, fenced meadows. One meadow was also mown. More objects are actually scattered along the entire path before pasture Vresje on both sides - looks like on clearings on larger or smaller glades or little meadows.

There are more objects. Most of them seem to be used for recreational purposes.

Hayracks are quite a staple on these mountains.

There are several pleasant holiday facilities here.

Here too the mountain or flat pastures are bordered by forest on all sides.

Some facilities are even partially hidden in the forest.

velkavrh17. 07. 2014 05:42:53

On the way to the Triglav Lakes valley we somehow cross or walk past three grazing, lively pastures - pasture Pri Jezeru with hut, pasture Dedno Polje, pasture Ovčarija. First I present the pasture Pri Jezeru, which is the most accessible to us. From the parking lot below pasture Blato we go on a pleasant, not demanding path in a good hour. To the parking lot below pasture Blato we drive from Stara Fužina on the now fully asphalted beautiful mountain road up to the junction to pasture Vogar. We really pay toll for that. Then we have another about five hundred meters of gravel to the parking lot. Last year I walked this road entirely on foot and it took me about two hours. The pasture is grazing with several characteristic Bohinj huts, there is a large hut. Behind the hut there is quite a large lake. There is already cattle up there. At the beginning of the pasture below on the path there is a ramp, from the upper side the pasture is not fenced.

We are already in the alpine pasture area.

Morning on the alpine pasture - cattle grazing.

Alpine dairy on the pasture. Some years ago it was of open type - this time I didn't notice it.

On the pasture there are several old huts characteristic of these mountains. Below, cattle were kept overnight, above the shepherd lived.

Once there was the pasture dairy here, today no more. It was the only stone building of the pasture. All other huts, now mostly used as holiday homes, more or less renovated, were and still are wooden.

Last look at the pasture with the lake - living romance.

velkavrh17. 07. 2014 06:16:11

The next pasture is Dedno Polje. At least for me one of the most beautiful Bohinj pastures. Only half an hour from pasture Pri Jezeru and we're already above pasture Dedno Polje. Along the way the path opens up into a slightly sunken partly rocky, partly grassy valley surrounded on all sides by forest, a beautiful pasture with numerous huts and an open-type mountain dairy where they friendly serve and also invite with wooden signposts. The pasture is grazing - lots of cattle. By the path there's even a trough for watering livestock. Above the pasture the path continues to pasture Ovčarija and then to the Triglav Lakes valley. From the pasture there's also a path called Za Kopico to Prehodavci or to Dolič via Hribarice.

At the trough for watering livestock - there is a lot of livestock.

Alpine dairy on the pasture - open type.

Here the alpine dairy is partly a stone building. Other structures - huts - on the pasture are wooden.

There are quite a few huts on the pasture. Most are used as holiday homes.

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velkavrh17. 07. 2014 07:41:58

The next one is pasture Ovčarija, which I actually have never fully walked through and explored. When we descend from some kind of saddle above the pasture, we're at signposts that direct us straight ahead across Peski to the Triglav Lakes valley, to the right we go to Štapce to the Triglav Lakes valley. Here cattle was grazing. Cattle was grazing all around. Nearby there's even a small trough for watering. At the junction there are still visible remains of former huts that are no longer here. At the bottom of this quite extensive pasture there's a hut that's only partially visible. To the left the path goes to pasture Viševnik and further to Pršivec. Along this path you reach a couple of objects that I saw some year ago. Above this little basin you can see the remaining objects of the pasture, which partly hide among the trees. I haven't been there yet. Above the right part of the basin there's a mountain dairy that I haven't seen yet and it's not visible from the junction. I'll explore the entire pasture some other time.

This is the path junction on the Ovčarija pasture.

The ruins of the huts that have long been gone are still visible.

The huts were on both sides of the path.

Barn and probably hut in the deepest part of the pasture, which is somewhat hidden and not visible from the path.

These huts are not visible from the path. You reach there by turning at the junction towards Pršivec and Planina Viševnik. Through the ruins and scrub one reaches a pleasant clearing with a few huts.

Perhaps something is even open here in summer. The other pasture facilities continue to the right along the forest edge. On the far right side there should be the sawmill on Planina Ovčarija, which I have never seen.

jprim27. 07. 2014 18:34:12

On this pasture two years ago we observed a whole flock of roosters; wild or escapees.? rolling eyes

velkavrh8. 08. 2014 15:50:21

Today they took me to visit my brother at pasture Zajavornik, where he works at the local mountain dairy. First time I visited this pasture in the grazing dry season. Every winter I rush there on skis. It's very easy to get to the pasture. At Mrzli Studenec we turn right towards the starting points for pastures Lipanco and drive on a beautiful, currently very potholed gravel road to the left starting point for pasture Lipanco - that's at the monuments. There's a large parking lot with a bench. To the left the road turns to pasture Zajavornik. The pasture is visible already from the parking lot. Here we leave the vehicle and in five minutes we're on the vast pasture Zajavornik. The pastures are surrounded by fences. We'll see lots of huts and also stables. The main ones are maintained. Some are also collapsing. On the right side there's an open-type mountain dairy with dairy. Here is a stop on the Cheese Trail. The mountain dairy has a nice dairy where they make excellent trappist cheese, which we can also buy. Kg costs around ten euros there. For a nice loaf we'll pay 20 euros. They can also slice it for you. The housewife and the two herders are very obliging. In the dairy works a professionally trained dairyman with cheesemaker certificate. The pasture belongs to the grazing community of Goreljek and Nomenje, if I understood correctly. The pasture is close to Rudno Polje - biathlon center - they'll be glad for your visit.

We have arrived at the Zajavornik pasture.

The pasture is extensive with numerous huts.

Especially this year, with so many rainy days.

Hunters are also present at the edge of the pasture.

Soon on the pasture we turn right to the cheese dairy - also the dairy on the pasture.

Already at the entrance we are greeted by loaves of Trapist cheese.

Milking is well taken care of. There are four stalls for machine milking.

Last year there was the ceremonial opening of the renovated cheese dairy. RTV Ljubljana recorded the report. You can still watch it.

Sour milk is also available, and much more.

From all sides, more or less maintained huts greet us.

But some are already being taken by the tooth of time.

Only this one is already completely demolished.

Several birds are fluttering over the pasture - do you know them? To not torment you too much - it's the white wagtail - the first to fly in spring from warm regions.

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velkavrh14. 10. 2014 20:09:43

Today I visited pasture Blato for the first time. I always turn immediately to the path to pasture Pri Jezeru. At the Blato pasture parking lot we have only five minutes to the beautiful pasture. On the pasture there are many huts. Most are typical Fužinski - bottom for livestock, top for shepherd. Almost no abandoned huts. The pasture looks like it's still alive, so they graze in summer.