Podkorita - Planina Pečana

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Lesce, then we continue driving towards Bled and Bohinjska Bistrica. When we arrive in the municipality of Bohinj, we slowly pay attention to the left turn-off. Just before the main road crosses the bridge over the Sava Bohinjka river, we continue slightly left on a macadam road which continues parallel to the river. From the main road, we drive on the macadam road for another 2100 m, then we park at a suitable place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point we continue on the macadam road, which already immediately leads us over two successive streams and a smaller wooden cottage, which we notice on the left side. A little further ahead, or right after the smaller bridge, we arrive at a smaller junction, where a short road branches off to the left towards the nearby bee house. We continue towards the bee house (straight to waterfall Grmečica and Nomenj, the right road ends on the nearby meadows) and behind it straight into a belt of bushes, where we first notice a faint path, which only a few meters higher becomes more distinct. The path ahead leads us over a short scree slope, where it turns right and transitions to an old cart track. Continuing, we ascend along the cart track, and at two less noticeable junctions we follow it to the right. The cart track then veers slightly to the right and brings us to a small valley, where it almost completely disappears. We continue a few steps through the valley or some kind of wide gully, then the path takes us left onto the slopes, where the cart track becomes distinct again. A little higher we cross a forest road, and the path above it first ascends through a belt of bushes, then transitions into the forest, through which it begins to ascend more steeply. Higher up, a few almost unnoticeable junctions follow again, and we follow the "main" path, which higher brings us to a more rocky and partly overgrown with high grass cart track. Here we continue left and then after a few meters, when we arrive at a small valley, right onto a gentle cart track, along which we ascend to the nearby macadam road. We follow the road to the right, then after a few 10 meters at a small right bend, slightly left onto the cart track, along which we ascend to the lower part of Bitenjska planina. When we step out of the forest we continue slightly left, then after a short ascent we already spot the first cottages on the pasture, to which we walk across an increasingly scenic meadow.
Above the pasture we step onto an asphalt road, which we follow to the right (left Železniki), and we walk along it to the nearby junction, where we notice the first signs for Ratitovec.
We continue left onto the road in the direction of Ratitovec, and initially the still asphalt road quickly takes us into dense forest. We walk approximately 10 minutes along the mentioned road, then the blazes direct us slightly left onto a marked footpath, which continues along a grassy cart track, the latter along the Bitenjski graben stream. Higher we return to the road, which we reach right at the small junction. We continue along the upper right road, along which we quickly arrive at Ribčeva planina.
From Ribčeva planina we continue along the road, which a little higher brings us to a junction, where we continue right. From the junction we walk along the road for another approximately 2 minutes, then the signs for the footpath to Ratitovec direct us left onto a marked cart track, which higher turns into a somewhat steeper mountain path, which soon crosses a forest road and flattens behind it. On the other side of the road we continue along the cart track, then quickly leave it as the blazes direct us right onto a forest path, which initially still ascends moderately, then gradually descends to the nearby forest road, which we follow to the left. We continue the ascent along the road, and along it in a few minutes we walk to its end, where there is a larger parking lot and turning area.
From the parking lot we continue along a wide cart track, which begins to ascend relatively steeply through the forest. After approximately 10 minutes of walking the cart track flattens, then a little further it brings us to the cottages on planina Pečana.

On the way: Bitenjska planina (901m), Ribčeva planina (1115m)

Trip can be extended to: Krekova koča na Ratitovcu ( 30 min) , Kosmati vrh (Ratitovec) ( 50 min) , Gladki vrh (Ratitovec) ( 35 min) , Altemaver (Ratitovec) ( 40 min)