Laško - Mali Grintovec (via Sveti Lovrenc)

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

Path description:
From the parking lot we head onto the steep cart track towards 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 the 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 the wide path gently descends to an indistinct saddle, where a path from a somewhat higher starting point joins us. Further we continue towards Storžič still on the wide path, which gently 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 fine views open up onto the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness continues unabated all the way to a bench at the junction.
To the left a marked path leads towards Javornik and Poljane, we head right towards Kališče. From the junction the path becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. Further we cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. Along the path forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in places. During the crossing the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply, a few times it also gently descends. 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 straight towards Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
Ahead the path ascends more steeply through a belt of dwarf pines and with fine views of the neighbouring Mali Grintovec brings us onto the dwarf pine-covered ridge of Bašeljski vrh, 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 off to the right, we continue straight and with a view of Storžič continue the ascent. The path, which runs along and beside the dwarf pine-covered ridge, is joined a little below the summit by the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here we continue right and along a somewhat narrower ridge in one minute of further walking reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a fine view opens up towards the mountains above Jezersko, extending all the way to Košuta, Obir and the Labotniške Alps in Austria.
From Bašeljski vrh we begin to descend relatively steeply towards the east to northeast along the path that runs along and beside the ridge, which is mostly covered with dwarf pines, on the section 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 us.
We continue straight towards Mali Grintovec along the path that begins to ascend relatively steeply up the western slope of the said mountain. After approximately half an hour of walking from Mačensko sedlo we reach a marked junction, where the path from Dolga njiva joins from the right. We continue left and after some 10 steps of further walking arrive at the summit of Mali Grintovec.
Laško - Bašeljski vrh 3:45 minutes, Bašeljski vrh - Mali Grintovec 45 minutes.

On the way: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (835m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m), Bašeljski vrh (1744m)