Strmca - Bloško jezero

Access to starting point:
A) From Ljubljana, we drive towards Kočevje or vice versa, but only to the settlement Velike Lašče, where we continue right (from the direction of Kočevje left) in the direction of Nova vas na Blokah. Further, we drive on an occasionally somewhat more winding and also ascending road, which leads us past some smaller settlements. Higher up, we arrive at the edge of the Bloška planota plateau, where the road flattens out, and we arrive in the village of Strmca, where a local road branches off to the left towards the settlement Mramorovo pri Lužarjih. At the mentioned junction, where the described path begins, there are no arranged parking places. We park somewhere nearby at a suitable spot beside the road.
B) First, we drive to Nova vas na Blokah, then we continue driving in the direction of Velikih Lašč, and we drive past the settlement Nemška vas na Blokah, then towards Velikih Lašč we drive to the settlement Strmca, where we notice signs for Mramorovo pri Lužarjih, which direct us right. At the mentioned junction, where the described path begins, there are no arranged parking places. We park somewhere nearby at a suitable spot beside the road.

Path description:
From the junction, we continue on the local road in the direction of Mramorovo; the fairly level road first brings us to a few houses in the settlement Strmca, where at the smaller junction we continue slightly left. There follow a few minutes of walking on the asphalt road, which leads us across panoramic meadows, from which a view opens up reaching all the way to Snežnik. In Mramorovo pri Lužarjih we continue in the direction of the village Kotel; behind the last house in Mramorovo the road loses its asphalt surface. Further on, we walk along the macadam road, beside which are the markers of the European footpath E6. When, after a few minutes, the macadam road towards Kotel turns somewhat to the left, we continue straight ahead on the cart track, along which the European footpath continues. The path ahead leads us partly through forest, partly across the expansive meadows of the Bloška planota; in doing so we first cross Blatni potok, later also Runarščica. Soon after crossing Runarščica, a path from the settlement Runarsko joins us from the left. At several subsequent junctions, as well as at the previous ones, we follow the markers of the European footpath E6, which brings us almost to Bloško jezero, which the E6 path bypasses on the left side. When we approach the lake most closely, we continue right, and then after one or two minutes of further walking we arrive at the aforementioned lake.
The description and pictures refer to the conditions in 2016 (January).

On the way: Mramorovo pri Lužarjih (769m)