Bitenjska planina - Krekova koča na Ratitovcu

Access to starting point:
We drive to Bohinjska Bistrica and continue driving towards Soriška planina. After a few kilometers of ascent, we arrive at a crossroad, where the road towards Soriška planina branches off sharply to the right, and we continue straight in the direction of Železniki and Škofja Loka. Further, we drive for approximately 1 km, and then we arrive at a smaller crossroad, where a road towards Ribčeva planina branches off to the right. At the crossroad, there are signs for Ribčeva planina and Ratitovec. We park a few meters before the crossroad on a macadam parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we first walk to the nearby crossroad, at which we notice the first signs for Ratitovec.
We continue right on the road in the direction of Ratitovec, and at first the still asphalt road quickly leads us into a dense forest. We walk for approximately 10 minutes on the mentioned road, and then the blazes direct us slightly to the left onto a marked footpath, which continues on a grassy cart track, this one along the stream Bitenjski graben. Higher up, we return to the road, which we reach right at the smaller crossroad. We continue on the upper right road, on which we quickly arrive at Ribčeva planina.
From Ribčeva planina we continue on the road, and a little higher it brings us to a crossroad, where we continue right. From the crossroad, we walk on the road for approximately 2 minutes, and then signs for the footpath to Ratitovec direct us to the left onto a marked cart track, which higher changes into a somewhat steeper mountain path, and this one soon crosses a forest road and flattens out behind it. On the other side of the road, we continue on the cart track, and then we quickly leave it as the blazes direct us to the right onto a forest path, which at first still moderately ascends, and then gradually descends to the nearby forest road, which we follow to the left. We continue the ascent on the road, and we walk along it for a few minutes to its end, where there is a larger parking lot and a turning point.
From the parking lot, we continue on a wide cart track, which starts to ascend relatively steeply through the forest. After approximately 10 minutes of walking, the cart track flattens, and shortly afterwards it brings us a little further to the cottages on the mountain pasture Pečana.
A few strides above the mentioned cottages we come out of the forest onto grassy slopes, and we continue on the right side of the mountain pasture for only a few more meters, and then at the junction we continue right in the direction of Krekova koča (straight to Kosmati vrh). The path ahead starts to ascend moderately through an increasingly sparse spruce forest. Higher up, we finally step out of the forest onto the extensive pastures of Ratitovec, where we leave the cart track and continue the ascent on a somewhat less visible but marked trail, which after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the summit slopes of Ratitovec, where the path from Soriška planina joins us from the right. We continue to the left on the increasingly panoramic path, which leads us past the winter bivouac, all the way to Krekova koča na Ratitovcu, which we reach after less than 5 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Ribčeva planina (1115m), Planina Pečana (1472m)

Trip can be extended to: Gladki vrh (Ratitovec) ( 5 min) , Altemaver (Ratitovec)