Planina Blato - Vrtec (via planina Dedno polje)

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 we reach a junction, continuing 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 us to the toll and parking collection point, but we follow it further 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 towards planina Blato (straight planina Vogar). We then follow this road to the parking lot above planina Blato.

Path 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 about ten minutes of ascent, we arrive at a marked junction, from where we continue left towards Planina pri Jezeru (slightly right Planina v Lazu and also steep path towards Planina pri Jezeru.
Continuing on the less steep cart track, which continues to lead through the forest, a little further a marked path joins from the left, leading past Kosijev dom on Vogarju, but we continue right and continue walking on the cart track. Higher up, the path leads through a small defile, then we cross quite steep slopes, where there is great danger of slipping in ice and snow, otherwise the path is not demanding. At the end of the steep slope, the aforementioned steep path joins inconspicuously from the right, the cart track turns left here and passes into the fairly cold Pungrat valley, where we ascend through mostly spruce forest. When the path levels higher up, a path joins from the left leading past Planina Vodični vrh, but we keep 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 Koča na Planini pri Jezeru stands on a small elevation.
At the hut, a path branches right towards Planina v Lazu, but we continue left from the hut and descend to a marked junction, where there are also some shepherd 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).
We also ascend on the cart track in the continuation, which is quite rocky on steep places, after about ten minutes of ascent we arrive at the place where a path branches left over Krištofojca towards Planina Viševnik, but we continue straight on the gradually less steep cart track, which leads us through gradually sparser forest. A few more minutes of easy walking on the path follow, which later turns slightly right, when the path turns back towards the west we already reach the edge of Planina Dedno polje, from where a walk to the central part of the planina follows, where by the shepherd huts there is also a marked junction.
We bypass the shepherd huts and the dairy on the left side and continue straight towards Koča pri Triglavskih jezerih (right dolina Za Kopico). From the planina onwards we begin to ascend moderately, and from the left almost imperceptibly a path from the nearby hunting hut joins us. A little further the path leads past another branch of the path towards Planina Viševnik (path along Griva (1758 m)), but in the next few minutes we arrive at the upper edge of the vast Planina Ovčarija, from where a nice view opens up to 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 planina.
We continue left following the signs »Pl. Viševnik«. The path begins to ascend and then brings us to an indistinct grassy saddle where there are also some shepherd huts (Smodlakov brlog).
Here the marked path turns left, but we continue straight towards the ridge on the north side of Vrtec, which we see in front of us. When the ridge becomes somewhat overgrown we continue to the right (western) side of the ridge and then walk for some time in the valley parallel to the ridge. Here we walk through sparse larch forest past some small birches, then the path brings us out of the forest onto more grassy terrain. Here we continue decisively left and begin to ascend on relatively steep grassy terrain towards the ridge. When we reach the ridge we continue right up the ridge. Here a path is occasionally visible, which brings us past larches and sparse scrub to the panoramic summit.
Starting point - Planina pri Jezeru 1:00, Planina pri Jezeru - Planina Dedno polje 0:30, Planina Dedno polje - Planina Ovčarija 0:45, Planina Ovčarija - Vrtec 0:45.

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), Smodlakov brlog (1714m)