Laško - Mali Grintovec (via Sveti Lovrenc)

Access to starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Kranj - east exit, then continue driving towards Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor, leave the main road and continue left towards the centre of the mentioned town, from there follow the signs to the Bašelj settlement. When we arrive in Bašelj, at the beginning of the left bend a narrower road continues straight ahead to the parking lot at the Bašelj TD hut (starting point Bašelj in descriptions), but we, from the mentioned intersection, continue along the main road for another good 100 m to the next intersection, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and the Laško hamlet. About 50 m further, continue on the left road, which gradually begins to ascend moderately. At the Laško hamlet, continue left again, then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep gravel road, which we follow to the parking lot next to a small intersection. Red mountaineering direction signs are located at the intersection.
b) From the Jesenice - Ljubljana motorway, take the Kranj - west exit and at the first intersection continue left. Then we drive through the underpass under the motorway, then arrive at a roundabout, from which we continue driving towards Golnik. The road ahead leads through the settlement of Mlaka pri Kranju, but at the end of the settlement we continue right towards the Srakovlje settlement. Driving continues 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 to the parking lot at the Bašelj TD hut (starting point Bašelj in descriptions), but we, from the mentioned intersection, continue along the main road for another good 100 m to the next intersection, where we continue right on the road towards Gamsov raj and the Laško hamlet. About 50 m further, continue on the left road, which gradually begins to ascend moderately. At the Laško hamlet, continue left again, then the asphalt ends and we continue driving on a steep gravel road, which we follow to the parking lot next to a small intersection. Red mountaineering direction signs are located at the intersection.

Route description:
From the parking lot and intersection, we continue on the worse and steeper left road in the direction of sv. Lovrenc and Dom pod Sv. Lovrencem (straight to Kališče and Storžič, to Storžič and to Kališče it is also possible by continuing left). From the intersection onwards, we ascend relatively steeply, during the ascent a marked footpath branches off to the right, leading directly to the church of sv. Lovrenc and bypassing Dom pod Lovrencem. All the time we continue on the road, from which higher up some views open up temporarily. When the road turns sharply right after a while, it brings us in a few steps to the aforementioned Dom pod Lovrencem.
From the hut, we continue in the direction of Javornik, Velika and Mala Poljana, Kališče and Storžič, on a path that moderately ascends through the forest. The well-trodden path quickly takes us out of the forest onto a vast meadow, across which we walk with beautiful views to the church of sv. Lovrenc.
We continue across the meadow past the church and the path soon takes us into the forest. Further on, the wide path gently descends and brings us to an indistinct saddle, where a path leading past the monument joins from the right, and paths from the starting points at Baben Vrt and Povlje join from the left.
Further we continue in the direction of Storžič still on the wide path, which however gently ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher up, the path takes us out of the forest and beautiful views open up to 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 Poljana, we head right towards Kališče. From the junction, the path becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. Further on, we cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. Along the path, forest and grassy slopes alternate, which are quite steep in some places. During the crossing, the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply, sometimes 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 in the direction of Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
The path ahead ascends more steeply through a belt of dwarf pines and brings us with beautiful views of the neighbouring Mali Grintovec 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, a 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 on 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 beautiful view opens up towards the mountains above Jezersko, extending all the way to Košuta, Obir and the Labotniške Alpe in Austria.
From Bašeljski vrh we begin to descend relatively steeply towards the east to northeast, along a path that runs along and on the ridge, which is mostly covered with dwarf pines, where there are none a bit more caution is needed. After about 15 minutes, the descent ends and the path brings us to Mačensko sedlo, where a marked path from Kališče and an unmarked path along the Suha valley join us.
We continue straight in the direction of Mali Grintovec, along a path that begins to ascend relatively steeply along the western slope of the mentioned mountain. After about half an hour of walking from Mačensko sedlo, we reach a marked junction, where a 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.

Starting point - Dom na Lovrencu 0:15, Dom na Lovrencu - sv. Lovrenc 0:05, sv. Lovrenc - saddle at sv. Lovrencu 0:10, saddle at sv. Lovrencu - wide valley 1:45, Wide valley - Spring below Bašeljski sedlo 0:35, Spring below Bašeljski sedlo - junction above Kališče 0:15, junction above Kališče - junction below Bašeljski vrh 0:15, junction below Bašeljski vrh - Mačensko sedlo 0:25, Mačensko sedlo - Mali Grintovec 0:30.

Along the route: Dom na Lovrencu (Bašelj) (835m), Sveti Lovrenc (Bašelj) (892m), Sedlo pri sv. Lovrencu (867m), Bašeljski vrh (1414m), Izvir pod Bašeljskim sedlom (1528m), Razpotje nad Kališčem (1570m), Razpotje pod Bašeljskim vrhom (1634m), Mačensko sedlo (1622m), Razpotje pod Malim Grintovcem (1791m)

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