Pečana - Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Bohinjska Bistrica, then we continue driving towards Soriška planina. Higher up, we arrive at a crossroads, where we continue straight towards Železniki (sharp right Soriška planina), and we follow the main road for approximately another 1 km, then we continue right towards Ribčeva planina. Higher up, the asphalt ends, and the macadam road splits into two parts. We continue on the right road, which brings us to Ribčeva planina. At the crossroads above the mountain pasture, we continue right, then in the next two crossroads left. From the second crossroads, where we went left, we drive a few hundred meters to the next crossroads, there we turn right and then drive to the end of the road, where we park. From the crossroads on Bitenjska planina to the starting point is approximately 7.5 km.
B) From Železniki or Podbrdo, we first drive to Soriška planina, then we continue driving towards Bohinjska Bistrica. From the parking lot on Soriška planina, we drive approximately another 1 km, then we turn right onto the forest road. At the first crossroads, to which we arrive after less than 2 km of driving from the spot where we left the main road, we continue left, then in the next one, which is located after a few kilometers, slightly right. From the second crossroads onwards, we drive a few hundred meters, then in the next crossroads we turn right and drive further to the end of the road, where we park in a suitable spot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a wide cart track, which starts relatively steeply ascending through the forest. After approximately 10 minutes of walking, the cart track flattens, then a little further it brings us to the cottages on the Pečana mountain pasture.
A few steps 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 meters, then at the junction we continue right in the direction of Krekova koča (straight Kosmati vrh). The path ahead starts moderately ascending through increasingly sparse spruce forest. Higher, we finally step out of the forest onto the vast pastures of Ratitovec, where we leave the cart track and continue the ascent on a somewhat less visible but marked footpath, 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 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.
From the hut, we continue left on a somewhat steeper path in the direction of Gladki vrh. We then follow this increasingly panoramic path all the way to Gladki vrh, which we reach after 5 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Planina Pečana (1472m), Krekova koča na Ratitovcu mountain hut (1642m)