Povlje - Mali Grintovec (via Bašeljski vrh)

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

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue in the direction of learning path Trstenik "Pot pod Storžičem", that means we continue on the asphalt road which turns right and a little higher leads past few more houses and holiday cottages. Above the settlement, the asphalt ends, and the road passes into the forest, where a little ahead crosses a torrent stream (in the upper part known as southwest groove of Storžič, in the lower part it isn't so distinct). After the crossing of torrent ditch, where in spring time grows wild garlic, the road is for some time ascending diagonally towards the right, and then splits in two wide cart tracks. We continue on the lower right cart track, and from there already after few steps we go left into the forest, on the path in the direction of St. Lovrenc. The path for some time continues without large changes in altitude, and then we join the cart track, on which we quickly get to Srečotovi mlinčki (little mills).
Above little mills path towards St. Lovrenc turns from the cart track right into a dense forest, and we continue straight and on a cart track we ascend to the juncture with a marked path.
We follow the mentioned path to the left (right St. Lovrenc, Bašelj...) in the direction of Storžič and Kališče.
Further, we continue in the direction of Storžič still on a wide path, which is slightly ascending. The path soon becomes narrower and is then for quite some time steeply ascending through the forest. Higher, the path finally brings us out of the forest and nice views open up on the southern slopes of Storžič. The steepness is still not decreasing all the way to a bench on crossing.
Left leads a marked path towards Javornik and Poljane, and we go right towards Kališče. The path from the crossing becomes a little narrower and less beaten. Further, we for long time cross the slopes towards the east. On the path, there are taking turns forest and grassy slopes, which are on some spots also pretty steep. While crossing the path occasionally ascends a little steeper, and few times also slightly descends. In the second part of the crossing, the path brings us to the source below the saddle Bašeljsko sedlo. Here the path turns slightly to the right and is still crossing slopes until it brings us to a marked crossing, where we continue straight in the direction of Bašeljski vrh and Mali Grintovec (left Storžič, right Dom na Kališču).
The path ahead ascends steeper through a lane of dwarf pines and with a nice view towards the neighbouring Mali Grintovec brings us on with dwarf pines covered ridge Bašeljski vrh, where in next few minutes we get to the next well-marked crossing. At the crossing, the path to Mali Grintovec and Srednji vrh branches off to the right, and we continue straight and with a view on Storžič we continue the ascent. The path which runs on and by with dwarf pines covered ridge, little below the summit joins also the path from Jekarica and Bašeljski preval. Here we continue right and on a little narrower ridge in a minute of additional walking, we reach Bašeljski vrh, from which a nice view opens up towards the mountains above Jezersko, and the view reaches all the way to Košuta, Obir and Lavanttal Alps in Austria.
From Bašeljski vrh we start relatively steeply descending towards the east to northeast, on the path that runs on and by the ridge, which is mostly vegetated with dwarf pines, and on the part where it isn't a little more caution is needed. After approximately 15 minutes the descent ends and the path brings us on a saddle Mačensko sedlo, where the marked path from Kališče and unmarked path through the valley of Suha join.
We continue straight in the direction of Mali Grintovec, on the path which starts relatively steeply ascending on the western slope of the mentioned mountain. After approximately half an hour of walking from the saddle Mačensko sedlo we come at the marked crossing, where from the right side, the path from Dolga njiva joins. We continue left and after few 10 strides of additional walking, we get to the top of Mali Grintovec.
Povlje - Bašeljski vrh 4:00, Bašeljski vrh - Mali Grintovec 45 minutes.

On the way: Izvir pod Bašeljskim prevalom (1510m), Bašeljski vrh (1744m)