Bistrica pri Tržiču - Koča na Dobrči
Starting point: Bistrica pri Tržiču (615 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.362°N 14.285°E 
Time of walking: 3 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 863 m
Altitude difference (by path): 900 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Ljubelj and follow the road ahead in the direction of Tržič. Just before the gas station at Tržič, we turn right (direction Tržič) and then immediately left (direction Begunje). Soon after Bistrica pri Tržiču, a macadam road towards Vila Bistrica branches off sharply to the right. Here we turn right and then park at a suitable place by the road.
Path description:
From the crossroad, we continue on the macadam road in the direction of Vila Bistrica. The road, which gently ascends, brings us in a few minutes to the asphalt, where we arrive at a crossroad by which there is a chapel.
Immediately behind the chapel, we continue sharply left onto a cart track which bypasses the nearby residential house on the left side (nearby we also notice signposts for Dobrča and Bistriška planina). The cart track quickly enters the forest and ascends relatively steeply to some sort of ridge, from which we occasionally get a bit of a view towards Kriška gora and Gorenjska. When the ridge ends, we continue on the right cart track, which returns into the forest; we follow it to a more grassy area (named Na planincah).
Further on, the cart track ascends quite steeply at times, then brings us to several successive junctions where it levels out. At the junctions, we carefully follow the blazes, which eventually lead us from the cart track onto a forest path. The fairly gentle path then brings us to Bistriška planina in a few minutes.
On Bistriška planina, we step onto the road and follow it to the left, where after a few steps we step onto another wider road. We follow this road uphill, continuing along the edge of Bistriška planina. The road ahead ascends moderately through the forest and then brings us to Breška planina, where a hunting cottage stands.
We continue on the road, which returns into the forest and gradually begins to ascend more steeply. Higher up, we reach a marked junction where a marked footpath from Brezje pri Tržiču joins from the left, and we continue sharply right on the gradually steeper cart track. This is followed by about 20 minutes of walking on the said cart track, after which the path brings us out of the forest onto the lower part of Lešanska planina. We continue uphill across the mountain pasture, quickly reaching the shepherd hut on the said mountain pasture.
From the shepherd hut on Lešanska planina, we continue left and traverse diagonally to the other side of the mountain pasture, where the path enters the forest. We walk for some time on a path that continues without major changes in elevation, then arrive at a marked junction where the path from Brezje pri Tržiču joins from the left, a path branches off to the right towards the summit of Dobrča, and we continue straight in the direction of Koča na Dobrči. This is followed by a short descent and crossing of a cart track, then a few more minutes of walking through the forest. When the forest ends, we step onto the edge of the panoramic Podgorska planina, from where we descend into a small valley, and from there we ascend to Koča na Dobrči in one more minute of walking.
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