Planina Blato - Velika Tičarica

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; 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 leads to a toll and parking fee collection point; continue following it to the next junction, where you go left (right to Voje). Follow the road to the next junction (after quite some driving), 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 marked parking lot in front of Planina Blato, return a little back and head onto a wide and initially also steep cart track, along which there are signs for Planina pri Jezeru. After about ten minutes of ascent, you reach a marked junction, from which continue left towards Planina pri Jezeru (slightly right Planina v Lazu and also a steep path towards Planina pri Jezeru.
Continue on the less steep cart track leading further through the forest, where shortly afterwards a marked path joins from the left leading past Kosijev dom on Vogar; we continue right and keep walking on the cart track. Higher up, the path leads through a narrow passage, then crosses quite steep slopes where there is a high risk of slipping on ice and snow, otherwise the path is not demanding. At the end of the steep slope, the aforementioned steep path joins unobtrusively from the right; the cart track turns left here and enters the rather cool Pungrat valley, where we ascend through mostly spruce forest. When the path levels out higher up, a path joins from the left leading past Planina Vodični vrh; we keep slightly right and continue walking on the cart track, along which the forest begins to thin. 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 hillock.
At the hut, a path branches right towards Planina v Lazu; we continue left from the hut and descend to a marked junction where there are also some shepherds' huts.
Choose the wider right path with signs for Planina Dedno polje and Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (slightly left Pršivec, Planina Viševnik and Črno jezero).
Continue ascending on the cart track, which is quite rocky on steep sections; after about ten minutes of ascent, reach the point where a path branches left over Krištofojca towards Planina Viševnik; we continue straight on the gradually less steep cart track leading through increasingly sparse forest. A bit more easy walking follows on the path that later turns slightly right; when the path turns back west, we reach the edge of Planina Dedno polje, from where a walk to the central part of the pasture follows, where there is also a marked junction by the shepherds' huts.
Bypass the shepherds' huts and dairy on the left and continue straight towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (right valley Za Kopico). From the pasture onwards, we begin a moderate ascent; a path from the nearby hunting hut joins almost imperceptibly from the left. A little further, the path passes another branch towards Planina Viševnik (path along Griva (1758 m)); after the next few minutes, we reach the upper edge of the vast Planina Ovčarija, from where a nice view opens onto the Bohinj-Tolmin mountains, sometimes called Lower Bohinj mountains. From here, a short descent follows and we arrive at a junction on the northeastern part of the pasture.
Continue slightly right towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih and Mala Tičarica (left Planina Viševnik); the path soon forks again.
From the fork, follow the signs for the path over Štapce (straight path over Prode), both leading towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih; the right one, which we will follow, 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 pines. After a half-hour ascent, the path levels out and leads to Štapce, where the next marked junction is.
At Štapce, continue slightly right towards Tičarica and Zelnarica (slightly left Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih) and continue the ascent on the path that first climbs through a belt of dwarf pines, then leads to a short steep and especially slippery when wet step. Above the step, the path levels out and turns onto moderately steep grassy slopes, along which after a few more minutes of walking we climb to a small saddle, where a marked path branches left to Mala Tičarica, about ten minutes ascent.
Continue towards Zelnarica on a relatively gentle path that first crosses the slopes of Mala and then Velika Tičarica. Just a few dozen meters after the "Ne trgaj cvetja!" sign (sign on the wall), leave the marked path and continue the ascent left off-trail upwards. Ascend the grassy slope towards the ridge of Velika Tičarica. In the upper part of the ascent towards the ridge, the slope becomes quite steep and also dangerous for slipping. Great caution is required on this otherwise short section of ascent.
Once on the ridge, continue left and soon reach the summit of Velika Tičarica along a somewhat less demanding slope.
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, junction below Mala Tičarica 0:25, junction below Mala Tičarica - branch to Velika Tičarica 0:20, branch to Velika Tičarica - Velika Tičarica 0:15.

On the way: 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), Odcep za Veliko Tičarico (2020m)