Laško - Dom na Kališču (via Sveti Lovrenc)

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 beginning of the left bend a narrower road continues straight ahead, which leads to the parking lot at the log cabin TD Bašelj (in descriptions starting point Bašelj), we from the mentioned intersection continue on the main road for another good 100 m to the next intersection, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and hamlet Laško. Only about 50 m ahead we continue on the left road, which gradually starts to ascend moderately. At the hamlet Laško we continue left again, then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep macadam road, which we follow to the parking lot, at the smaller intersection. At the intersection there are red hiking signposts.
B) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana highway, take the Kranj - west exit and at the first intersection continue left. Further, we drive through the underpass under the highway, then we arrive at a roundabout, from which we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The route further leads us through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement we continue right in the direction of the settlement Srakovlje. 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 bend, where a narrower road continues straight ahead, which leads to the parking lot at the log cabin TD Bašelj (in descriptions starting point Bašelj), we from the mentioned intersection continue on the main road for another good 100 m to the next intersection, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and hamlet Laško. Only about 50 m ahead we continue on the left road, which gradually starts to ascend moderately. At the hamlet Laško we continue left again, then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep macadam road, which we follow to the parking lot, at the smaller intersection. At the intersection there are red hiking signposts.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto a steep cart track in the direction of Lovrenc. After a short steep ascent, the cart track brings us to a junction, where the footpath to the church of St. Lovrenc branches off to the right. We continue on the lower cart track path, which again starts to ascend more steeply and after 15 minutes of walking from the starting point brings us to the Dom na Lovrencu hut.
At the hut we continue on the path towards Storžič and already after a few steps the path brings us out of the forest onto meadows below the church. We reach the church of St. Lovrenc in a few minutes of walking across the meadow.
We continue across the meadow past the church and the path soon brings us into the forest. Further on, the wide path descends slightly to an indistinct saddle, where the path from a somewhat higher starting point joins us. Further, we continue in the direction of Storžič still on the wide path, which slightly ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher up, the path brings us out of the forest and beautiful views open up on the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness does not let up all the way to the bench at the junction.
Left leads a marked path towards Javornik and Poljane, we head right towards Kališče. The path from the junction becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. Further on, we cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. On the path, forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in some places. During the crossing, the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply, and a few times it also descends slightly. In the second part of the crossing, the path brings us to the spring below Bašeljsko sedlo. Here the path turns slightly right and continues crossing the slopes until it brings us to a marked junction, where we continue right towards the Dom na Kališču hut (left Storžič, straight or slightly left Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec).
From the junction onwards follows walking along a wide panoramic ridge, on which we arrive at the Dom na Kališču hut in a few minutes.

On the way: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (860m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m)

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