Planina Blato - Planina Spodnja Grintovica

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. Continue driving towards Lake Bohinj (Ribčev laz), where you reach a junction and continue right towards Stara Fužina. In Stara Fužina, at the junction by the chapel, turn sharply left onto the ascending road towards Planina Blato, Planina Vogar and Voje Valley. The road then takes you to the toll and parking fee collection point, but follow it further to the next junction, continuing left (right to Voje). Follow the road to the next junction (driving for quite some time), where you turn sharply right towards Planina Blato (straight to Planina Vogar). Follow this road to the parking lot above Planina Blato.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the gravel road which takes us past the barrier in a few steps to a right-hand bend. On the right side of this bend, we will notice the start of the hunting trail, which with the aid of a fixed cable leads us across a short very steep slope. The path soon enters the forest and turns slightly right, where we step onto a wide eroded cart track (up to here also possible by road, or higher on the cart track). Follow the cart track right (straight ahead the hunting trail continues towards Planina Krstenica), which climbs steeply for some time. Follow the cart track, from which a few dead-end branches lead off, to a somewhat larger and partially marked junction, where on one of the trees we notice the inscription Grintovica.
Here we leave the wide cart track and continue along the right somewhat narrower cart track, which climbs gently for some time. The path then descends slightly several times, after which we notice signs for Grintovica directing us right into the dense forest (here we leave the increasingly poor cart track). In the forest the trail completely disappears, but we continue in the same direction to a larger number of fallen trees. Here we cross a marked path leading from Voje Valley towards Planina Krstenica (due to fallen trees the crossing is almost unnoticeable, but we must still take care not to continue along the marked path). On the other side of the marked path we cross a small clearing, and behind it the path returns to the forest and gradually begins to descend more steeply. After a short steep descent the path levels out, taking us to steep slopes across which we mostly descend laterally. During the crossing we pass a few short slightly exposed slopes, then the slope flattens, and the path continues with a few short ascents and descents. A little further we exit the forest onto the southern part of Planina Zgornja Grintovica, where we notice the first wooden huts. The path then crosses a strip of forest and leads us to a water trough by which stands the Kefova hut. We continue further, again through a strip of forest, following the path to the upper part of the alpine pasture where we notice a few more old shepherd huts.
In the last upper part of the alpine pasture, on the right side near a collapsing hut, we will notice a wide pathlet going into the forest and beginning to descend laterally towards Planina Spodnja Grintovica. After about ten minutes of descent, we reach the said alpine pasture, where we also join the marked path from Voje Valley.
Starting point - junction At the top 1:00, junction At the top - Planina Zgornja Grintovica 0:30, Planina Zgornja Grintovica - Planina Spodnja Grintovica 0:10.

On the way: Na vrhu (1339m), Planina Zgornja Grintovica (1250m)

Trip can be extended to: Planina pod Mišelj vrhom (1 h 30 min) , Planina Krstenica , Velo polje (2 h) , Vodnikov dom (2 h) , Jezerski Stog (2 h 15 min) , Koča na Doliču (3 h 45 min) , Vernar (3 h 15 min) , Dom Planika (3 h 30 min) , Triglav (5 h)