Bašelj - Dom na Kališču (via hospital Košuta)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor, leave the main road and continue driving left towards the center of the mentioned settlement; from there, follow the signs for the Bašelj settlement. When we arrive in Bašelj, at the spot where the main road makes a long left turn, leave it and continue driving straight in the direction of Gamsova pot. Continue driving on the narrow asphalt road that leads us between the houses and along the Belica stream. Park on the parking lot by the Tourism Association Bašelj.
B) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway, take the Kranj - west exit and at the first intersection continue left. Then drive through the underpass under the highway, after which we arrive at a roundabout, from which continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The route ahead leads through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement we continue right in the direction of the Srakovlje settlement. This is followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela, Zgornja Bela (in Zgornja Bela we join the road from Preddvor) to Bašelj, where the main road makes a long left turn; leave it and continue driving straight in the direction of Gamsova pot. Continue driving on the narrow asphalt road that leads us between the houses and along the Belica stream. Park on the parking lot by the Tourism Association Bašelj.

Path description:
From the starting point at the log cabin of the Tourism Association Bašelj we continue on the forest road closed to public traffic, which leads us along the Belica stream. Initially we walk past the football and basketball court, then we already arrive at the first junction of Gamsova pot, where to the left branches the path towards the church of sv. Lovrenc, Dom pod sv. Lovrencem; it is also possible to continue towards Storžič, Krničarjeva koča na planini Javornik, Mali and Veliki Poljani...
From the mentioned junction we continue the ascent on the macadam road, which moderately ascends through the forest or partly through bushes. After a few minutes we arrive at the turning point of the forest road, where the footpath towards Kališče continues right across the stream, and slightly to the left continues Gamsova pot, which leads to Gradišče and further to sv. Lovrenc as well as the path to Kališče along the forest road, Kališče past the Košuta hospital and Kališče along the Kisovec ridge. We continue on the wide cart track, which ascends towards the nearby water catchment. Before the catchment we leave the wide cart track and again continue slightly left on the path where Gamsova pot continues. Further we ascend for a few minutes on a steeper cart track; when it ends we continue right on a less distinct but relatively well-trodden path, which ascends through the forest. Higher up the trail partly disappears in places; we follow the otherwise rare yellow-white blazes that mark Gamsova pot. We ascend through the forest for a few minutes, then at one bend we reach another forest road, which we follow to the right (left Laško). On the macadam road we walk some 10 meters and we are already at the next junction, where to the left branches the path to sv. Lovrenc, and a few steps further also to the right to the Gradišče summit. We continue on the road for another 10 minutes or so, then arrive at a smaller parking lot and a few steps further at the turning point at the end of the road.
From the end of the road we continue left on the cart track in the direction of Kališče and Storžič. The cart track then moderately ascends along the bed of the Belica stream and after about 10 minutes splits into two parts. We continue on the left cart track, which ends after just a few meters. Here we leave the vicinity of the stream bed and continue slightly left on the path, which steeply ascends through the forest. The steepness soon eases and the path brings us to the partisan hospital Košuta.
Behind the hospital we cross two successive torrents, then the path becomes steeper again. The path ahead still continues through the forest, crossing a steeper slope where more caution is needed when wet. Above the steep section we reach the side ridge of Kališče, where an unmarked path from Bašelj joins from the right.
Here we continue left and continue the ascent on the still steep path, which proceeds through gradually thinning forest. After the bench and some views of nearby Storžič the path turns right and returns to dense forest. A less steep path follows, which quickly takes us to the first hut on Spodnje Kališče. Behind the hut the forest ends, then on pleasant grassy terrain in a few minutes we reach the central part of the pasture, where we also join the usual path from Mače.
From Spodnje Kališče we continue slightly left in the direction of Dom na Kališču, from where a few minutes of walking through the forest follow, then we arrive at a nice viewpoint from which a fine view opens towards the nearby Dom na Kališču, Mali Grintovec, Lanež ridge, Krvavec... From the viewpoint only a short ascent follows and we are already at Dom na Kališču.

On the way: Planina Kališče (1450m)

Trip can be extended to: Bašeljski vrh , Mali Grintovec , Storžič