Babni Vrt - Bašeljski vrh (via Sveti Lovrenc)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Brnik exit; when we reach the Mengeš - Kranj road, we continue left towards Kranj. Along the main road towards Kranj, we drive to the first roundabout, from which 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 beyond the Bašelj settlement, the road descends to the Milka stream and crosses it over a bridge. Here, a road branches off to the right, along which we arrive in Babni Vrt, but we drive above the settlement, where the asphalt road towards the last homestead turns left, and we continue right. Further on, we drive past the quarry, behind it we arrive at a smaller intersection, by which we park in a suitable place.
B) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway, take the Kranj west exit, then 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 beyond the Trstenik settlement, we arrive at a smaller intersection, where first to the left a road branches off towards the Povlje settlement, a few hundred meters further also towards Babni Vrt. We continue towards Babni Vrt; from the intersection above the settlement, we turn right onto a macadam road, along which we then drive past the quarry. We park behind the quarry in a suitable place by the next intersection.

Route description:
From the starting point, we continue on the left road, which continues along the right side of the quarry (straight path below Storžič); a little further, it splits into two wide cart tracks. We continue on the right cart track, which goes straight into the forest, then initially gently, after the left serpentine moderately to steeply ascends. Further at junctions, we follow the right directions; at 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, and along it we quickly join the path from Bašelj or Laško.
We continue left upwards and after one or two minutes of further walking arrive at the Dom na Lovrencu.
From the hut, we continue in the direction of Javornik, Velika and Mala Poljana, Kališče and Storžič, on the path that moderately ascends through the forest. The well-trodden path quickly takes us out of the forest onto a vast hay meadow, across which we walk with fine views to the church of St. Lovrenc.
Behind the church, the path returns to the forest and begins 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 further along the wide path, which slightly ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher up, the path brings us out of the forest and fine views open onto the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness does not relent all the way to the bench at the junction.
To the left, a marked path leads towards Javornik and Poljana, we however head right towards Kališče. From the junction, the path becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. Further on, we cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. Along the path, forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in places. During the crossing, the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply, and several times also slightly descends. In the second part of the crossing, the path brings us to the spring below Bašeljski sedlo. Here, the path turns slightly right and continues crossing the slopes until it brings us to a marked junction, where we continue straight in the direction of Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
Ahead, the path ascends more steeply through a belt of dwarf pines and brings us, with fine views of the neighboring 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. At the junction, the path to Mali Grintovec and Srednji vrh branches off to the right; we continue straight and, with a view of Storžič, continue the ascent. The path, which runs along and beside the dwarf pine-covered ridge, joins a little below the summit with the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here, we continue right and along the somewhat narrower ridge in one minute of further walking reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a fine view opens towards the mountains above Jezersko, extending all the way to Košuta, Obir and the Labotniške Alpe in Austria.

Along the route: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (860m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Mali Grintovec ( 45 min)

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