Kamniška Bistrica to Korošica meadow

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Kamniška Bistrica to Korošica meadow

Page Type: Route

Location: Slovenia, Europe

Lat/Lon: 46.31943°N / 14.59963°E

Route Type: Hiking, Mountaineering

Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Time Required: Half a day

Difficulty: undemanding

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Created/Edited: Jun 11, 2009 / Jul 9, 2009

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Overview

Enlarge! The Kamniska Bistrica Trailhead is the brown dot. The Korosica hut (Kocbekov dom) is the green dot.

The route from the Kamniska Bistrica Trailhead to the Korosica meadow hut (Kocbekov dom na Korosici) is long (up to 5 hours).
It is an undemanding, marked and secured mountain-hiking path. It ascends forested slopes and traverses among mounds covered with bush.
In winter, one gully might get tricky, and the highest part of the route (alt.ca 1900m) might be loaded with deep snow. Anyone ascending in the snowy period should refer to the avalanche forecast (info at the trailhead hut, general press or here/5 grade system).

The Slovene Alpine Association (PZS) maintains the marked and secured paths throughout Slovenia for the summer period.
In fact, we do not need any description of the paths (a map is a good idea, so as to keep track of which path we are on). Well visible signposts and red and white blazes guide us all along the way (in both directions). Basically consider alpine hiking in this form: using marked paths and sticking to them, which safely brings us to and back.

Check the "Kocbekov Dom" Hut page for the opening dates (the hut is open in the summer).

Getting There

Info on approaching the range is to be found in the Getting There section of the range page (Kamnik-Savinja/Steiner Alps).

As one may well see on the map, after clicking the coordinates in the primary info (above), and then clicking the map version, the Kamniska Bistrica trailhead may easily be reached by referring to the city of Kamnik. The coordinates show to the beginning of our route, just below (1 km along the road) the Kamniska Bistrica tailhead hut.
The trailhead hut is at the source of the Kamniska Bistrica river (shortly Bistrica) in the center of the range.
The hut is open all year long (except on mondays): 45 beds (reserve!), meals searved, two large (free) parking lots (one of which is in fact the bus turning point), garbage cans and a beautiful view of Konec (litterally: the end -of the valley) from the source (pond) of the Bistrica.
Along with the "official" trailhead hut, the guest house "pri Jurju" also proposes meals.
A bus comes in twice a day (Ljubljana, Kamnik, Stahovica, Kamniska Bistrica).
The road 225 from Kamnik to Gornji Grad (eastward) goes through a village named Stahovica. This is where a 8km long (asfalted) road starts, leading to the Kamniska Bistrica source, along the left bank.
NB: a hiking path ("Kozeljeva pot") leads from Stahovica to the Bistrica source along the right bank.

A little more than 1 km down the asfalted road from the trailhead hut, a bridge crosses the Kamniska Bela gorge. The Kamniska Bela is the first left bank affluent to the Kamniska Bistrica. A parking lot nested itself before the bridge (to the left, looking downwards).
This is where our journey starts (signposts mentioning KOROSICA, PRESEDLAJ, or OJSTRICA).

Route Description

From the parking lot, the path leads through the forest, horizontaly, until reaching the right bank of the Kamniska Bela which it follows upstream.
As the gully flattens out, our marked route crosses the Kamniska Bela, continuing along a trail on the left bank.
After ca.1 km on the left bank, follow the signpost for PRESEDLAJ.
(ignore well tread paths continuing along the Bela course, unless you would like to visit a charming waterfall (Orlicje) 15 min away).

The red and white blazes guide us up forested slopes.
At one point, after crossing a rib, a bench and a beautiful view welcome us, but right after that a somewhat delicate rocky traverse demands our full attention.
We continue zig zaging through the woods until reaching the Presedlaj col (1613m) at which point the vegetation is much lower and we discover the E part of the range.
We stand here at the low point of a ridge running south-north.

We turn left, northwards (signpost Korosica, Ojstrica), whilst an other marked route (Crossing Konj) goes S.
Our path at first raises through bushes, then lengthly traverses to the right (E). The gully we traverse may get tricky in the wintertime.
After having crossed the gully we slightly ascend and continue traversing up and down through bushes and around karstic "holes", strictly sticking to the marcations until arriving to the Prag saddle (1910m). In winter the amount of snow may be such that only the (scarce) long direction poles will help (compass, map?).

The Prag saddle offers us a due N view of the Korosica basin, of the Kocbekov Dom hut, and of the Ojstrica S face above it.
A less than a kilometer long downhill stroll now separates us from the hut (1808m).

DESCENT
We may reverse this route or choose among the many other possibilities which are proposed on the Kocbekov Dom Hut Page.

Essential Gear

MAPS
1:25 000
1:50 000

Wind and rain clothing
First aid
A small head lamp fits in any pocket and a whistle also isn't a bad idea.

In winter:
Snowshoes (if not skis) might come in very handy.
Piolet(ice tool) and crampons.
BTW, the hut's winter room is small.

Red Tape, Camping

Unless expressly signalized (barrier, signpost), and upon your own responsibility, macadamized roads are allowed and visible on maps (these roads are mainly maintained for lumbering and hut cable station access purposes).
Fishing & hunting is regulated.
Wild camping and open fires are not allowed.
The Kamnik-Savinja Alps are part of the Natura 2000 program.
This tick link to the SP Forum is useful.

CAMPING (around the range)
Ljubljana
Kamnik
Luce
Trzic
Voelkermarkt