Bašelj - Mali Grintovec (via Bašeljski vrh)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When you 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 you arrive in Bašelj, at the spot where the main road makes a long left turn, leave it and continue driving straight towards Gamsova pot. Continue driving on the narrow asphalt road that leads us between the houses and the Belica stream. Park on the parking lot by the Tourist 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, then arrive at a roundabout, from which continue driving towards Golnik. The road ahead leads through the Mlaka pri Kranju settlement, and at the end of the settlement we continue right towards the Srakovlje settlement. Follows 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 towards Gamsova pot. Continue driving on the narrow asphalt road that leads between the houses and the Belica stream. Park on the parking lot by the Tourist Association Bašelj.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue in the direction of the Belica spring, Kališče and Storžič (left Gamsov raj) on the macadam road closed to public traffic, which bypasses the hut of the Sports Tourist Park Belica on the right side. The road, from which a nice view of Storžič first opens up, leads us past the football and basketball courts and in approximately 10 minutes brings us to a marked junction by the road turning area.
From the turning area, we continue right in the direction of Kališče on the marked path (left Kališče on the forest road, and also Gradišče (Pustinjak) and Kališče past Košuta hospital), which starts to ascend along the left tributary of Belica. The path ahead leads through the forest, first on the left side of the gully, then crosses it and passes to the right side, where after a shorter ascent we reach a worse forest road or cart track. We follow the cart track for a few minutes, then the blazes direct us right into the forest through which we ascend relatively steeply. Higher, we cross an overgrown clearing or old cutting, then step onto a wide cart track again. On the cart track we walk only a few steps this time, since already at the first bend we continue straight on a gradually less steep path. A little further, we cross another cart track and above it approach completely a wide cart track. At the place where we completely approach the cart track there is a mountain direction sign that marks the path downwards. Here we continue straight and after a minute or two of further walking join a better trodden path from Mač.
From the mentioned junction, we continue left in the direction of Kališče (straight Mače on the road, right Mače on the footpath) and continue the path through a shorter belt of dense forest. The dense spruce forest ends quickly and we step onto a worse forest road that leads from the valley of Belica stream. On the road, which soon makes a left bend, we ascend a few minutes, then on the right side notice the continuation of the mountain path (the branch is well marked). The path ahead passes onto a steeper slope and ascends relatively steeply in numerous zigzags. Higher the forest thins temporarily and a nice view opens towards the south. On the part of the sparse forest a wooden bench provides a pleasant rest, a little further a still working clock on a tree "surprises" us. Continuing, we traverse somewhat more to the right, so that we reach the forested south ridge of Kališče. On the mentioned ridge the path turns sharply left, then ascends in a few zigzags to Spodnje Kališče, from where a nice view of Storžič opens.
When above Spodnje Kališče the path returns to the forest, the path from Laški joins from the left (also the path from Bašelj past Košuta hospital). A few more minutes of walking through the forest follow and we arrive at a nice viewpoint, from where a nice 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.
Behind Dom na Kališču we notice a mountain direction sign with numerous continuation options. We continue on the gentle and panoramic ridge path in the direction of Storžič, Bašeljski vrh..., which continues towards the north. After a few minutes of easy walking with nice views reaching all the way to the Julian Alps, we arrive at a junction, where we continue right (straight Storžič) towards Bašeljski vrh. The path ahead ascends more steeply through a belt of dwarf pines and brings us onto the dwarf pine-covered ridge of Bašeljski vrh with nice views of the neighboring Mali Grintovec, 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 right, we continue straight and with a view of Storžič continue the ascent. The path, which runs on and along the dwarf pine-covered ridge, a little below the summit also joins the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here we continue right and on a somewhat narrower ridge in one minute of further walking reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a nice view opens towards the mountains above Jezersko, and the view reaches all the way to Košuta, Obir and the Lavanttal Alps in Austria.
From Bašeljski vrh we begin to descend relatively steeply towards the east to northeast, on the path that runs on and along the ridge, which is mostly covered with dwarf pines, and on the part where it is not a little more caution is needed. After approximately 15 minutes the descent ends and the path brings us to Mačensko sedlo, where the marked path from Kališče and the unmarked path through the Suha valley join.
We continue straight in the direction of Mali Grintovec, on the path which starts to ascend relatively steeply on the western slope of the mentioned mountain. After approximately half an hour of walking from Mačensko sedlo we come to a marked junction, where from the right the path from Dolge njive joins. We continue left and after some 10 steps of further walking arrive at the summit of Mali Grintovec.
Bašelj - Kališče 2:30, Kališče - Bašeljski vrh 45 minutes, Bašeljski vrh - Mali Grintovec 45 minutes.

On the way: Planina Kališče (1450m), Dom na Kališču mountain hut (1534m), Bašeljski vrh (1744m), Mačensko sedlo (1622m)