Razglednik - Gladki vrh (Ratitovec)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Lesce and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. From Bohinjska Bistrica, we continue left in the direction of Tolmin and Soriška planina. Above the village Nemški Rovt, we arrive at a marked crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Soriška planina (slightly left Škofja Loka and Železniki). On the road towards Soriška planina, we drive past the turn-off of the path (road) towards Orožnova koča (the turn-off for Orožnova koča is marked, and it branches off from the main road to the right), from where we drive on the main road for approximately 1 km, where on the right side we notice a smaller parking lot, and on the left side we notice a road which branches off sharply to the left and continues towards the mountain pasture Pečana. At the crossroad, we can also notice the first blazes and the mountain signpost for Ratitovec.
B) From Železniki or Podbrdo, we first drive to Soriška planina, and then continue the drive towards Bohinjska Bistrica. From the parking lot on Soriška planina, we drive for approximately 1 km, then we notice the turn-off of the forest road to the right, which leads towards the mountain pasture Pečana. We park at the crossroad on the left side of the road on a smaller parking lot.

Path description:
From the starting point, we first carefully cross the road, then head onto the macadam road in the direction of Ratitovec. The road quickly enters the forest, through which it begins to ascend moderately. Higher up, the road flattens and brings us to a smaller marked crossroad.
We continue slightly left (right road which leads towards the nearby Črni vrh 1486 m) and continue the path on the road, which subsequently slightly ascends and descends a few times. From the road, which continues through the forest all the time, only rarely does a bit of a view open up on the western Karawanks and central Julian Alps. After approximately an hour and a half of walking, the road descends more noticeably and brings us to a crossroad, where the road from Bitenjska planina joins from the left.
We continue slightly right and begin to ascend slightly, first still through the forest, then we cross a shorter panoramic slope. Quickly we return to the forest, then arrive at the next crossroad, where we continue right in the direction of Ratitovec (straight Rovtarica). The path ahead leads us on the road, which continues through a smaller valley, and from the left only some 10 meters further another marked path from Bitenjska planina joins. The road on which we walk soon ends and brings us to the parking lot and turning point below planina Pečana.
From the parking lot, we continue on 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 brings us to the cottages on planina Pečana.
A few steps above the mentioned cottages, we emerge from the forest onto grassy slopes, and we continue along the right side of the planina for just a few meters, then at the junction continue right in the direction of Krekova koča (straight Kosmati vrh and Vratca). The path ahead begins to ascend moderately through increasingly sparse spruce forest. Higher up, we finally step out of the forest onto the expansive pastures of Ratitovec, where we leave the cart track and continue the ascent on a somewhat less visible but marked footpath, which after a few minutes of further walking brings us to the summit slopes of Ratitovec, where the path from Soriška planina joins from the right. We continue left on the increasingly panoramic path, which leads past the winter bivouac, all the way to Krekova koča na Ratitovcu, which we reach after less than 5 minutes of further walking.
From the koča, we continue left on a somewhat steeper path in the direction of Gladki vrh. This increasingly panoramic path we then follow all the way to Gladki vrh, which we reach after 5 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Planina Pečana (1472m), Krekova koča na Ratitovcu mountain hut (1642m)