Bistra - Veliki Travnik (Turnovka)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Črna na Koroškem (we can get here from Mežica or from Šoštanj and Velenje via the Spodnje Sleme pass), then we continue driving towards Logarska dolina, Solčava, Pristava and Podpeca. In Pristava we continue left and continue driving towards the dispersed settlement Bistra. After a good 3 km of driving from Pristava, we will notice a chapel by the road, after which we will come to a smaller crossroads, by which we notice the mountain signposts for Raduha. We park at a suitable place by the crossroads.

Route description:
From the starting point, we head onto an ascending and initially still asphalted road in the direction of Koča na Loki and Raduha. The asphalt ends after just a few steps, and we continue along the macadam road, following it to a smaller crossroads, where slightly to the right, across the grazing fence, a narrower road branches off. We continue on the mentioned right road, which immediately after a smaller wooden hut turns into a cart track, along which we walk to the edge of the forest.
Here the blazes direct us into the forest onto a footpath, which further moderately ascends along the cart track. Higher up, the path takes us out of the forest onto a larger clearing, where we bypass another hut on the left side. The path ahead returns to the forest, crosses a forest road, and then ascends along the stream. After a few minutes of walking along the stream, the path turns right and gradually distances itself from the stream bed. Higher up, the path turns even more to the right, crosses a few short viewpoints, then turns left, where after a few minutes of further walking it brings us to a forest road.
We continue in the direction of Raduha along a gentle and increasingly worse forest road. We follow the road for quite some time, then it brings us to Knezova planina or Planina Bela peč.
From the junction at Knezova planina, we continue left in the direction of Koča na Travniku, Komna and Dom na Smrekovcu (right Raduha) along the path that begins to moderately ascend through initially sparse forest. The occasionally less trodden path continues moderately ascending for some time, then brings us to a completely overgrown slope, from which a nice view opens onto Peca and Golica. Above the overgrown but scenic slope, the path returns to the forest and semicircularly bypasses Presečnikov vrh. Further on, we temporarily return to the ridge, where the path, surrounded by numerous blueberry bushes, gradually begins to descend. The further easily followable but in the morning and forenoon often quite dewy path brings us after some time to a smaller wooden fence, beyond which we step onto a relatively new tractor track. We briefly continue along the mentioned track, then, when it turns slightly downhill, we go straight on along a pleasant forest path, which after the grazing fence widens into an old cart track. The path ahead leads us past a smaller stream (there is also a water trough by the path), after which we soon step out of the forest onto the expansive grazing areas of Planina Široka trata.
When we step out of the forest we continue left (straight Komna, right Koča na Travniku 100 meters) and continue the ascent across the gentle pasture. The moderately steep path higher enters a strip of forest and flattens further. This is followed by crossing usually animal-trampled terrain (mud after rain), and the path brings us out of the forest onto a marshy meadow, across which we barely noticeably ascend to a poorly visible junction. Here we continue straight (right Komna) and in 2 minutes of further walking reach the summit of Veliki Travnik, in the middle of which stands a small wooden observation tower.

Along the route: Knezova planina (Planina Bela peč) (1350m), Koča na Travniku mountain hut (1548m)

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