Planina Blato - Mala Tičarica (via Štapce)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, we head to the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. We continue driving towards Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where we arrive at a junction and continue right in the direction of Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina, at the junction by the chapel, we turn sharply left onto the ascending road in the direction of Planina Blato, Planina Vogar and Voje valley. The road then takes us to the place where toll and parking fees are collected, but we continue to follow it to the next junction, where we continue left (right Voje). We then follow the road to the next junction (we drive for quite some time), where we turn sharply right in the direction of Planina Blato (straight Planina Vogar). We then follow this road to the parking lot above Planina Blato.

Route description:
From the marked parking lot in front of Planina Blato, we return a little back and head to a wide and initially steep cart track, along which there are signs for Planina pri Jezeru. After approximately ten minutes of ascent, we arrive at a marked junction, from which we continue left in the direction of Planina pri Jezeru (slightly right Planina v Lazu and also the steep path to Planina pri Jezeru).
In the continuation of the less steep cart track, which continues to lead us through the forest, a marked path joins from the left a little further on, which leads past Kosijev dom on Vogar, we continue right and continue walking on the cart track. Higher up, the path leads through a small narrowing, then we cross quite steep slopes, where there is a great danger of slipping in ice and snow, but otherwise the path is not difficult. At the end of the steep slope, the previously mentioned steep path joins from the right quite unnoticeably, the cart track turns left here and transitions into the fairly cold Pungrat valley, where we ascend through mostly spruce forest. When the path levels out higher up, a path joins from the left that leads past Planina Vodični vrh, we keep to the slightly right direction and continue walking on the cart track, along which the forest begins to thin. Only a few minutes of easy walking follow and we step onto the pastures of Planina pri Jezeru, where the Koča na Planini pri Jezeru stands on a small rise.
At the hut, a path branches off to the right towards Planina v Lazu, we continue left of the hut and descend to a marked junction, where there are also a few shepherd's huts.
We choose the wider right path along which there are signs for Planina Dedno polje and Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (slightly left Pršivec, Planina Viševnik and Črno jezero).
Even in the continuation, we ascend along the cart track, which is quite rocky on steep sections, after approximately ten minutes of ascent we arrive at the place where a path branches off to the left over Krištofojca, which leads towards Planina Viševnik, we continue straight on the gradually less steep cart track, which leads us through gradually sparser forest. A few more minutes of easy walking follow on the path, which later turns slightly to the right, when the path turns back towards the west we already reach the edge of Planina Dedno polje, from which a walk follows to the central part of the pasture, where there is also a marked junction by the shepherd's huts.
We bypass the shepherd's huts and the dairy on the left side and continue straight in the direction of Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (right valley Za Kopico). From the pasture onwards, we begin to ascend moderately, and from the left an almost unnoticeable path joins from the nearby hunting hut. A little further, the path leads past another branch of the path towards Planina Viševnik (path along Griva (1758 m)), and in the next few minutes we arrive at the upper edge of the vast Planina Ovčarija, from which a beautiful view opens up to the Bohinj-Tolmin mountains, sometimes called the Lower Bohinj mountains. From here, a short descent follows and we arrive at a junction in the northeastern part of the pasture.
We continue slightly right in the direction of Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih and Mala Tičarica (left Planina Viševnik), and the path soon splits again.
From the fork, we follow the signs for the path over Štapce (straight path over Prode), both of which lead towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih, the right one, which we will continue on, also towards Mala Tičarica and Zelnarice. We soon leave Planina Ovčarija and the path ascends moderately to steeply through increasingly sparse forest, which higher up is replaced by dwarf pine. After a half-hour ascent, the path levels out and brings us to Štapce, where the next marked junction is.
At Štapce, we continue slightly right in the direction of Tičarica and Zelnarica (slightly left Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih) and continue the ascent on the path that first climbs through a belt of dwarf pine, then brings us to a short steep and especially dangerous for slipping when wet jump. Above the jump, the path levels out and transitions to moderately steep grassy slopes, over which we ascend to a small saddle in a few minutes of further walking, where a marked path to Mala Tičarica branches off to the left.
We continue in the mentioned direction (straight Mala Zelnarica) and ascend over the grassy slope to the ridge of Mala Tičarica. Here the path turns right and continues along and beside the ridge. We follow this increasingly panoramic path, which a little below the summit crosses a short slightly exposed slope, all the way to the summit, which we reach after a few steps of further walking.
Starting point - Planina pri Jezeru 1:00, Planina pri Jezeru - Planina Dedno polje 0:30, Planina Dedno polje - Planina Ovčarija 0:45, Planina Ovčarija - Štapce 0:35, Štapce - junction below Mala Tičarica 0:25, junction below Mala Tičarica - Mala Tičarica 0:10.

Along the route: Razpotje Pungrat (1255m), Razpotje pod Vodičnim vrhom (1449m), Koča na Planini pri Jezeru (1453m), Razpotje Krištofojca (1512m), Planina Dedno Polje (1560m), Planina Ovčarija (1660m), Štapce (1851m), Razpotje pod Malo Tičarico (2008m)

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