Gaber pri Semiču - Smuk (via Smuška cesta)

Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Brežice, we go to the exit Ivančna Gorica, and then we continue driving in the direction of Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road is for a short time still ascending, and then starts steeply descending. At the end of the longer right turn, where we will on support wall notice a sign "pozdravljeni v Beli krajini", we turn left and then immediately right. We park about 50 meters ahead on an appropriate place above mountain signposts.
B) From highway Brežice - Ljubljana, we go to the exit Novo mesto, and then we continue driving in the direction Dolenjske Toplice and Podturn pri Dolenjskih Toplicah. In Podturnu we join the main road Ivančna Gorica - Črnomelj, and we follow it left in the direction of Črnomelj. After Črmošnjice, the road is for a short time still ascending, and then starts steeply descending. At the end of the longer right turn, where we will on support wall notice a sign "pozdravljeni v Beli krajini", we turn left and then immediately right. We park about 50 meters ahead on an appropriate place above mountain signposts.
C) From Bela krajina at first we drive in Semič, and then we continue driving towards Črmošnjice and Soteska. Before we get to the left turn with the caption "Pozdravljeni v Beli krajini" at settlement Gaber pri Semiču we leave the main road and we turn right and immediately once again right on the road Smuška cesta. We park about 50 meters ahead on an appropriate place above mountain signposts.

Path description:
From the starting point, we walk to mountain signposts, and from there we continue on the road Smuška cesta in the direction of Smuk. At first, we walk on an asphalt road, on which we quickly get to some houses. Here the road slightly descends and it brings us to the spot, where the path branches off to the left towards the church of St. Primož and Felicijan, towards the peak of Semenič and towards Smuk over the peak Semenič.
Here we go straight and we still continue on the asphalt road, and it further leads above vineyards. With nice views on Bela krajina and surrounding hills we continue past several houses, and then we get to a marked crossroad, where we continue slightly left in the direction of the footpath on Smuk (slightly right - Smuk - access with a car). From here on we short time continue on the asphalt road, and then behind the last house it changes into a macadam. We continue on a gentle forest road which only a little higher joins also the path from the railway station in Semič. Few minutes we still continue on a quite gently sloping path, and then we get to a smaller crossing, from where we continue slightly right in the direction of Smuk (slightly left - Semenič). The forest road then moderately ascends and from the left joins also the path which leads from the church of St. Primož and Felicijan over Semenič on Smuk.
We continue on a little steeper road, and it quickly brings us to a marked crossroad, from where we continue in the direction of Smuk. Here we leave the road and through a lane of a forest we get to panoramic meadows of Smuk, through which in less than 5 minutes of additional walking, we ascend on the summit of Smuk.