Mače - Bašeljski vrh (through valley of Suha)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Kranj - East, and then continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor, we leave the main road and continue driving left towards the center of the mentioned settlement; from there, we follow the signs for Mače. When we arrive in Mače, at the marked intersection we continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Miklavž (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.
B) From the highway Jesenice - Ljubljana, we take the exit Kranj - West and at the first intersection continue left. We then drive through the underpass under the highway and arrive at a roundabout, from which we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The route takes us through the settlement Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement we turn right towards the settlement Srakovlje. This is followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we turn right towards Preddvor. In Preddvor, we notice signs for Mače, which direct us left past the primary school onto the road that ascends to Mače. When we arrive in Mače, at the marked intersection we continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Miklavž (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up the narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue in the direction of Kališče and continue on the forest road closed to public traffic. The road, which ascends relatively steeply, brings us after about 20 minutes of walking to a marked junction, where the normal path to Kališče branches off to the left, and we continue right and proceed along the increasingly worse forest road. A little higher, we reach the lower station of the cargo cableway that goes to Kališče; the road then gradually turns into a wide cart track.
We follow the marked cart track for some time, then, when it splits into two parts, we continue on the left wider unmarked cart track (there is a cairn at the junction). We continue the ascent along the mentioned cart track, which ascends steeply through a band of bare slopes. Higher up, the cart track ends, and we continue on a well-followable but quite steep path, which higher enters dense forest. This is followed by about 20 minutes of ascent, and we join a marked path, which we follow to the left.
We follow the marked path for only about 10 m, then just before the marked path turns sharply left, we leave it and continue the ascent straight ahead on a barely visible track. The track quickly disappears in the forest, but we continue in the same direction. The path then quickly takes us out of the forest onto scree covered with dwarf pines, on and beside which we ascend towards Mačensko sedlo. Although the "path" is harder to follow in some places, orientation is not a major problem, as we continue in the same direction the whole time (i.e., towards the saddle between Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec). Higher up, we must push through a short band of dwarf pines, but the passage is not particularly demanding, as a well-visible, otherwise completely overgrown track runs through this section. The path then takes us out of the dwarf pines, and after a few more steps we arrive at Mačensko sedlo, where we step back onto the marked path.
We continue slightly left in the direction of Bašeljski vrh (sharply left Kališče, right Mali Grintovec) along a path that begins to ascend steeply on and beside the eastern ridge of the aforementioned summit. We follow this relatively steep and increasingly panoramic path all the way to the summit, which we reach after about 20 minutes of walking from Mačensko sedlo.

On the way: Mačensko sedlo (1615m)

Trip can be extended to: Mali Grintovec (1 h)