Srednja vas - Planina Konjščica (Za Ribnico)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Bled and further towards Bohinjska Bistrica. Just before Bohinjska Bistrica, at the settlement of Bitnje, turn sharply right towards Pokljuka. After a short ascent, the road levels out and quickly brings us to the Upper Bohinj Valley. At the intersection here, continue left (right to Pokljuka) and follow the road further to Srednja vas. Here in the second part of the village, notice the signs for the Church of St. Martin, which direct us right onto a narrower and quite steep road, along which we quickly arrive at the church and primary school. Park in a suitable place by the school or church.

Path description:
From the parking lot at the church, we descend a few steps to the primary school, from there continue towards the viewpoint at Kres. The path further leads along a narrow asphalt road, along which we quickly reach a larger water tank, where we notice signs for Uskovnica. Continue along the track, which enters the forest, at the right bend we temporarily step out of the forest and a nice view opens to Rudnica and part of the Upper Bohinj Valley. Continue along the track, which leads through a somewhat narrower passage, then in a traversing ascent to the point where we reach the road to Uskovnica. We reach the road exactly at the nicely arranged viewpoint at Kres, from which a view opens towards Srednja vas, Upper Bohinj Valley and the Lower Bohinj Mountains in the background, now called Bohinjsko-Tolminske gore. For a short time continue along the road, then at the end of a gentle left bend signs for Uskovnica direct us right onto a track that leads through forest, a belt of shrubs, higher again through forest. A few minutes higher we reach the gravel road again, but this time leave it immediately, as we continue in the direction of the hiking path to Uskovnica. The track soon forks, we continue left, where on the power line pole we notice a mark. For some time continue along the power line and follow the marks. Soon a path branches left to Uskovnica via Lom, we continue along the path that turns somewhat right and enters the steep slopes of the area called Za Ribnico (Ribnica is the stream deep below us). Higher we reach a newer track or logging trail and follow it right. The newer logging trail ends after a few minutes, the path continues traversing the slopes to the right. A bit further, at a small junction continue along the left upper path, beside which there are signs for Uskovnica and which is visibly better trodden. Continuing we ascend somewhat more steeply along the path, from which somewhat higher an unmarked path branches to Lom (the sign says "cheese, cottage cheese, milk and more").
Continue towards Uskovnica again, then in a few minutes reach the gravel road (we reach the road section already closed to public traffic), which we follow right. When stepping onto the road we join the path from Stara Fužina, the path from Srednja vas via Lom and the path from the starting point or parking lot Lom. The gentle gravel road quickly takes us to the weekend houses at Uskovnica, then we leave it a little after the water trough and continue left onto the track towards Koča na Uskovnici. After approximately 50 meters of ascent along the track we reach Koča na Uskovnici.
From the hut continue towards Tosca, Draški vrh, Viševnik, Vodnikov dom, Rudno polje and Praprotnica along the path that first crosses the pasture fence, then quickly joins the gravel road, which we follow right. The road then leads between undulating meadows, then after crossing the next fence we quickly arrive at the intersection or junction by the chapel of Mary Queen of Peace at Uskovnica.
At the chapel the path to Vodnikov dom continues left, right leads the path to Pokljuka, we continue straight towards planina Konjščica (also one of the paths by which we can reach Velo polje or Vodnikov dom). Continue the path between fenced pastures, along a relatively steep track, from which a nice view opens to the surrounding mountains. Higher the path, which also leads past a few weekend houses, levels out and we join a wider track coming from Pokljuka or from near the bridge over Ribnica (in descriptions starting point Uskovnica (Razpotje) towards planina Konjščica).
A bit further a nice view opens towards Viševnik, the track then ascends traversely for some time, mostly through forest. Higher we cross the pasture fence and the path brings us to the southwestern edge of planina Konjščica. Here the path, which was occasionally somewhat steeper again, completely levels out and leads traversely across the pasture. While crossing we ford a few small streams, then after a small cross we cross a somewhat larger stream, after it in a few steps reach the cheese dairy at planina Konjščica, where during the grazing season it is possible to buy some dairy product.
Srednja vas - Koča na Uskovnici 1:40, Koča na Uskovnici - kapelica na Uskovnici 0:05, kapelica na Uskovnici - planina Konjščica 1:05.

On the way: Razgledišče na Kresu (619m), Koča na Uskovnici (1154m), Kapela Kraljice miru na Uskovnici (1177m)

Trip can be extended to: Planina pod Mišelj vrhom , Velo polje , Vodnikov dom , Studorski preval , Ablanca (1 h 50 min) , Jezerski Stog , Viševnik , Prevalski Stog , Mali Draški vrh (2 h 5 min) , Koča na Doliču , Vernar , Veliki Draški vrh (2 h 30 min) , Tosc , Vrh Snežne konte , Šmarjetna glava , Dom Planika , Visoka Vrbanova špica , Begunjski vrh , Triglavski dom na Kredarici , Rjavina , Triglav