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Slovenian alpine pastures in all seasons

velkavrh20. 10. 2015 18:23:46

On Sunday I went to Kredarica from Krma. The path led me also over the pasture Zgornja Krma. It is located at the foot of Mount Kurica -2028m- past which the path continues to Konjsko sedlo. On it there is the shepherd's hut Prgarca-1720m, renovated almost completely a few years ago, where they serve something in summer. From the parking lot to here we have about two and a half hours of moderate walking. The path is nice and almost not steep. At 1400m we reach a nice grassy plain called Vrtača. Already here cows graze in summer, after twenty minutes we reach Malo polje, which is more extensive than Vrtača but more rocky. Here the path turns left to Bohinjska vratca. Over them we reach Vodnikov dom. On Malo polje we come across a trough. Currently water is flowing. In dry summers the water is shut off. Then finally we reach the pasture Zgornja Krma, where there is the nice renovated hut Prgarca-1720m. In summer you can sit here and rest a bit. In winter there is even a winter room. It offers modest shelter from snow avalanches. Above the pasture we again come across a trough with water. A little further there is a path junction. The left leads over Kurica to Konjsko sedlo and further to Planika. The right brings us to Kredarica without branches.

The right ridge of Tosca as we see it to the left from our path.

Prgarca shepherd's hut on Zgornja Krma pasture.

It even has a winter room for emergency shelter.

Here in between one goes along the path across Kurica to Konjsko sedlo.

In 2013 I passed by here towards Rjavina and somehow to the left in the forest we stumbled upon an abandoned hut. I don't know if it was a shepherd hut or a hunting hut.

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Mrki13. 01. 2016 17:00:59

Some photos from today's walk from the parking lot at Poljana, past Valvasor to Žirovniška and Zabreška planina. Nice views, warm weather, dry path....

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Mrki18. 01. 2016 17:40:47

Uskovnica is beautiful in all seasons. Now there is only a little snow on it, but it still shows a winter appearance. On Saturday it was a bit cloudy, on Sunday clear, cold and quite windy.

The road to Uskovnica is snowy from Blatce onwards

In summer you get cheese, curd and more here

Beautiful view on Stoge, Škednjovec, Mišelj vrh to Mišeljski konec

Peak above Škrbina from under the hayrack on Uskovnica

Uskovnica with garland of mountains from Črna prst to Rodica

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velkavrh26. 01. 2016 16:40:21

Today for the first time to the winter pasture Pečana. It is located only half an hour from Ratitovec. We descend from the top and turn right at Krekova hut past the winter room in a small hut and past frozen puddles for summer cattle watering. Here a sign points right down towards the forest. In the forest winter begins. The path to the pasture is marked and was trodden. We walk through snow all the way. After half an hour out of the forest we see a quite large grazing area of the pasture. We don't see the huts on the pasture yet. They are hidden at the end of the meadow in the forest on a clearing. Some buildings are renovated, some are inevitably decaying. There is even a pasture stamp here - I don't even know if I've seen that on any pasture before.

Signpost to Planina Pečano below the summit of Ratitovec.

Arrival from the forest to the mountain pasture area.

At the end of the pasture the mountain huts come into view.

Before the huts we are even surprised by the mountain stamp.

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GregorC27. 01. 2016 13:30:52

The mentioned stamp on Pečana pasture is the stamp of Ratitovec Circuit. You can find more about the circuit on the website of PD Železniki: http://www.pd-zelezniki.com/

gmirko27. 01. 2016 17:48:55

Half an hour from Pečane is Klom pasture, where there is also the stamp of the mentioned circuit. There is also a stamp on Osredek pasture below Krvavec...

Mrki7. 02. 2016 19:09:51

On a beautiful Saturday we walked through the southern Pokljuka pastures above Bohinj. Start at Zgornje Podjelje on a gentle path to Konjska dolina, along the nicely snow-covered road past Peč to Zajamniki and then descent via Javornica to the starting point. There is little snow and the paths are just right for pleasant walking. Views wonderful. The next days it will change, then it will be even nicer.

Towards the upper part of Konjska dolina

The Goreljek-Zajamniki road is nicely snow-covered

Alpine pasture with a beautiful background

Scottish highland cattle on the farm at upper Podjel

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velkavrh8. 06. 2016 17:49:13

Today to Jasenje pasture, which reigns under the mighty Špik in the middle between the two Martuljek waterfalls. There is a pleasant mountain station - Ingotova brunarica - I'd say a mountain dairy. Cows graze on the pasture - they already serve sour milk and other homemade goodies. At the end of the pasture there is a chapel and a monument to deceased alpinists.

The path leads us past the first Martuljek waterfall.

The friendly Ingot's hut or log cabin awaits us.

It has plenty of room for hungry and thirsty hikers.

Here we remember our famous female alpinist.

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velkavrh6. 07. 2016 12:45:36

This time I present the little-known Balo pasture, located in the Bavšica area, which we cross when going for example to the Stadorja peak. Start in Bavšica at the path junction before PUS Bavšica. At the signs we turn left. Soon we reach water. The path to the pasture is not long - in one hour we are up. It is marked. The path to the hamlet Logje is wide, sometimes surrounded by stone fences on both sides. On the right side of the path is an area called Brdo. Along this path they used to transport everything needed for living in the huts during the grazing season with horses. Here is still Franckina koča today - a stone dwelling - in front of the house there is a strong spring. The other buildings were only temporary huts, now more recreational objects. I only looked inside the first one on the right, where the owners were present and told me the history of Logje itself and also of Balo pasture. This hamlet is at 843m. Behind the hamlet on the right side is the area called Bala extending to the Prevala saddle at 1560m. The path through the hamlet runs across a grassy plain, which higher up turns into partly scree and continues into beech forest. Before Balo pasture on the left side there is an area called Prehod. After an hour of walking we are at Balo pasture -1181m. We see several ruins along the path on the left side. We see only walls two meters high. In front there is a huge rainwater collector. There is no water here and they used rainwater. There were two huge buildings. The one next to the water collector, where water flowed into it from the large roof, was the living quarters with a black kitchen. Here they also had a cheese dairy with a huge cauldron. They processed local milk into cheese and sold it throughout the valley. The other objects were sheep sheds. The entire area around the buildings was surrounded by rocks - natural enclosures, to which they added stone fences. The pasture was finally abandoned around 1950. Since then the buildings have been inevitably decaying. People also helped in the destruction. Today it's quite hard to climb inside because the ruins are overgrown with bushes, nettles and other tall vegetation. In the best times over a hundred years ago the sheep herds allegedly reached 800 - hardly believable. The sheep grazed all over the Bala area. The pasture or its living part looks a bit lifeless because it is placed on its lower left part among high boulders and rocks. The first living water is then at the hunting hut at 1290m. They brought it from there for drinking. Unfortunately the Bala area is heavily overgrown. But we still met higher up in the Lanževice area.

This is how the path to the hamlet Logje goes.

Next to this house there were eight sheds - more for livestock than for people. They were modest structures.

Friendly people stay here seeking their peace. Hikers rarely pass by. I did not check the other buildings.

The path runs through this high vegetation.

Over a small scree we enter the beech forest.

We have already emerged from the forest.

Suddenly we find ourselves before the ruins of buildings on the pasture.

I searched these ruins as much as possible.

The area of the objects was and still is surrounded by this stonework.

This cross on these rocks is meant to signify something. It should recall unpleasant events unknown to me.

The surroundings of these buildings do not really remind of a pasture.

The area around here is not very friendly.

Below the path it already resembles a pasture area more.

They explain to me that this has always been just a sheep pasture. Sheep find their pasture everywhere.

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miri6. 07. 2016 14:26:35

pic. 12, don't know if that's an overhang zmeden

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mirank6. 07. 2016 14:54:19

The large mountain dairy building still had a roof in the mid-80s. When I descended from Jalovec there then, what stuck in my memory most was the silence, colorful pebbles in the Lanževica pool under Brežice, and the sad appearance of abandoned Logja...

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velkavrh7. 07. 2016 11:38:10

From Zg. Bavšica we also reach the little-known Zabukovec pasture. We go right past PUC and walk along the gorge of the Šumnik stream, which higher in the gorge is quite watery and creates nice waterfalls, but sinks and resurfaces in Zg. Bavšica. To the pasture from the start one hour walk. Pasture at 1346m. On the pasture there is a hunting hut. Strong spring here. Pasture doesn't give the impression of a grazing pasture. Seems to be heavily overgrown.

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mirank7. 07. 2016 15:37:28

As far as I know this is Bukovec pasture. The abandoned and overgrown pasture is an important "junction" for real pathless tours through Dolič, to the valley between Jelenk, Zagorelec and Šmihelovec, and also the junction of both JZ marked variants of access to B Grintavec is not far

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ločanka7. 07. 2016 19:15:39

mirank, you know everything

velkavrh8. 07. 2016 11:40:21

I wrote the alpine pasture name wrong. Correct is Bukovec.

velkavrh16. 07. 2016 13:02:52

After about a year I went again from Ukanc to Vogel via Žagarjev graben. Up there is a quite good very wide mountain road, but in the lower part it's a bit torn up, so even off-roaders have trouble. In winter it's used as a quite demanding descent from Vogel. If it's too icy they close it. Somehow up to three-quarters of this road there are no turnoffs. Then we reach the grazing area of the alpine pasture Zadnji Vogel, where the shepherd is across the road. Then you have to stick to the right turnoffs, which bring us directly to the pasture. Here is a large open-type mountain hut with a lot of offer of home-made dishes. This is a grazing alpine pasture, where they milk mechanically and make cheese. A shepherd is present all grazing season and someone else besides who cooks. In the fenced pasture there was quite a lot of cattle. At nine in the morning they were just milking. Sour milk unfortunately hasn't curdled yet - I was up there on Wednesday this week. Only here is water on the entire Vogel. Here a well is made and the water pipe goes from here to Vogel. Livestock also goes higher to the alpine pasture Zgornji Vogel, where sheep are grazed.

On the left side there is unfortunately an abandoned object in ruins.

On Zgornji Vogel pasture sheep are grazing. Otherwise cattle pasturing here is abandoned.

velkavrh16. 07. 2016 13:28:55

For some years we spend part of the annual vacation in Bohinj in Ukanc. For the first time I walked to the little known conditionally speaking alpine pasture Blato. Actually it's not marked as alpine pasture on the map, but locals consider it one. From Ukanc to the Savica waterfall there are two paths. The left one goes over this alpine pasture, but towards the end it turns to asphalt and is less pleasant. Over this large pasture we walk in the sun, while the right path to the waterfall goes through the forest in pleasant shade. This is actually a huge flat pasture with some buildings. They even mow here.

We are approaching the objects at Blato.

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velkavrh16. 07. 2016 20:13:49

On Jezersko I checked out the alpine pasture Robci. It is on a beautiful quite extensive pasture left above Kanonir on Spodnjem Jezerskem. We go towards Jekarica and soon a sign directs us left to Kozjek. We walk on a nice very wide gravel for about fifteen minutes and reach a sign that directs us right to the path to Kozjek. On the left side our alpine pasture starts. It is fenced with electric fence. Right at the beginning of the alpine pasture on the left is a nice recreational building more than anything else. On the large pasture a quite large herd of cattle is grazing. If we step over the wood and go a bit on the path we only then realize how big the alpine pasture is. From here we won't notice the hut, which is quite a bit ahead more on the lower edge of the alpine pasture somewhere in the middle. It is nicely visible from the road that goes further above the alpine pasture, but doesn't lead anywhere. It's made only for timber extraction.

New facility at the start of the alpine pasture.

View from the road. A herd of sheep is also grazing there.

Another view of the alpine pasture from the road.

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velkavrh23. 07. 2016 15:44:23

Today to fresh mountain air to the alpine pasture Spodnja Dolga njiva. We drive via Tržič to Dolžanova soteska and to Jelendol and towards Medvodje. Here a nice mountain road turns left towards the alpine pasture and we drive on it almost to the alpine pasture. I turned right towards the alpine pasture Brsnine and left the vehicle at the road closure. Now a long march on gravel awaited me. After about an hour and a half of walking on gravel the right sign directs us to Stegovnik, left to the alpine pasture Spodnja Dolga njiva. On the sign for the alpine pasture it says we have an hour and a half walk to the alpine pasture. The path direction is completely newly marked. Better to say this path is a marked pathless terrain. The little path shows itself more rarely. We walk through high grasses, over marshy terrain, cross some ravines with springs. In the spruce forest it can still be followed somehow. We even reach some hut on a small clearing. In fog it would be impossible to find the right path. Anyway I walked past Črna peč-1447m. I don't recommend this path to inexperienced. On the alpine pasture they had huge visit. This is a grazing alpine pasture - we see everything from donkeys to cattle. They even have turkeys and chickens.

This is the roadblock to the Brsnina pasture.

All along the path I observe the Košuta ridge.

I arrive at that clearing on the way to Sp. Dolga njiva pasture.

Next to it are also those wooden ruins of a fairly large structure.

The direction to the pasture was indicated at this hut.

We must follow the marks on the trees all the time.

The pasture literally enchants us with its immediate surroundings and domestic animals.

Livestock is also grazing on Zgornji planini Dolga njiva.

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velkavrh26. 07. 2016 07:11:44

Inadvertently I actually discovered and found the forgotten and already completely overgrown alpine pasture Brsnino. They say it was the Lomska horse alpine pasture. I went on the real gravel or forest road, which actually doesn't lead anywhere. It's intended for timber extraction. Already on this forest road there are quite a few turnoffs, so you have to watch to turn right. I used the Karavanke-central part map from PZS. So I stumbled upon a marked path that runs from Jezersko to the alpine pasture Sp. Dolga njiva. Actually I planned to get there and also arrived without problems.