Povlje - Bašeljski vrh

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the Brnik exit. When we reach the road Mengeš - Kranj, we continue left towards Kranj. On the main road towards Kranj we drive to the first roundabout, from where we continue on the first exit right in the direction of Šenčur. Through Šenčur we continue on the main road, then when we reach the road Kranj - Zgornje Jezersko, we continue right in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor we leave the main road and continue driving left towards the center of the mentioned settlement, from there we follow the signs for the settlement Bašelj. A little after the settlement Bašelj the road descends to the stream Milka and crosses it over a bridge. Here to the right first branches off the road to the village Babni Vrt, good 100 m further also to the village Povlje. We continue on the ascending road towards Povlje, and we park on a smaller parking lot above the village. At the starting point there is a smaller crossroad, several hiking signposts and a larger information board of the Trstenik walking-educational path "Pot pod Storžičem".
B) From the highway Jesenice - Ljubljana take the Kranj west exit, then continue driving towards Golnik. When we arrive in Tenetiše we leave the main road towards Golnik and continue driving right in the direction of Trstenik. Approximately 1 km after the settlement Trstenik we arrive at a smaller crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of the village Povlje. We continue on the ascending road towards Povlje, and we park on a smaller parking lot above the village. At the starting point there is a smaller crossroad, several hiking signposts and a larger information board of the Trstenik walking-educational path "Pot pod Storžičem".

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of the Trstenik walking-educational path "Pot pod Storžičem", that is, we continue on the asphalt road which turns right and a little higher leads past a few more houses and weekend cottages. Above the settlement, the asphalt ends, and the road enters the forest, where a little further it crosses a torrential stream (in the upper part known as the southwest couloir of Storžič, in the lower part no longer so pronounced). After crossing the torrential gully, where wild garlic grows in springtime, the road ascends transversely to the right for some time, then splits into two wide cart tracks. We continue on the lower right cart track, from which after a few steps we go left into the forest on the path towards sv. Lovrenc. The path continues for some time without major changes in elevation, then joins a cart track along which we quickly arrive at the Srečotovi mlinčki.
A little above the little mills the path towards sv. Lovrenc turns from the cart track right into dense forest, while we continue straight and ascend along the cart track to the junction with the marked path.
We follow the mentioned path to the left (right sv. Lovrenc, Bašelj...) in the direction of Storžič and Kališče.
Further on we continue towards Storžič along the wide path, which gently ascends. The path soon becomes narrower and then steeply ascends through the forest for quite some time. Higher up the path brings us out of the forest and fine views open up onto the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness does not ease all the way to the bench at the junction.
To the left a marked path leads towards Javornik and Poljane, while we head right towards Kališče. From the junction the path becomes somewhat narrower and less trodden. We then cross the slopes towards the east for a long time. Forest and grassy slopes alternate along the path, some of which are quite steep in places. During the crossing the path occasionally ascends somewhat more steeply and a few times also descends slightly. In the second part of the crossing the path brings us to the spring below Bašeljsko sedlo. Here the path turns slightly right and continues crossing the slopes until it brings us to a marked junction, where we continue straight towards Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
Ahead the path ascends more steeply through a belt of dwarf pines and, with fine views of the neighbouring Mali Grintovec, brings us onto the dwarf pine-covered ridge of Bašeljski vrh, where in the next few minutes we reach the next well-marked junction. At the junction the path to Mali Grintovec and Srednji vrh branches off to the right, while we continue straight ahead and, with Storžič in view, continue the ascent. The path, which runs along and beside the dwarf pine-covered ridge, joins shortly below the summit with the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here we continue right along the somewhat narrower ridge and in one minute of further walking reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a fine view opens up towards the mountains above Jezersko, extending as far as Košuta, Obir and the Lavanttal Alps in Austria.

On the way: Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m)

Trip can be extended to: Mali Grintovec ( 45 min)