Grahovše - Tolsti vrh (via Plaz pod Vrati)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice highway we head to the Ljubelj (Tržič) exit, then continue driving towards Ljubelj. Just before the gas station in Bistrica pri Tržiču we leave the main road and continue driving right in the direction of Tržič. Further, we drive through Tržič in the direction of Dolžanova soteska, then at the end of the town we continue right in the direction of Lom pod Storžičem and Grahovše. When we get to Grahovše we drive on the road to the nearby quarry, by which there is an arranged parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return on the road about 100 m back, then at the crossroads we head onto the side road, which continues towards the south to southwest.
From the crossroads, we head towards the hamlet Hrib (Grahovše 11-17 and 27, 34), then at the end of the hamlet left onto the cart track, which then moderately ascends along the edge of expansive meadows. The cart track higher crosses a strip of forest, then brings us to a larger clearing, along the edge of which we notice a feeder for animals. The cart track then ascends semicircularly across the clearing, and we ascend along it to the upper part of the aforementioned clearing. Here we will notice a path on the right side, along which we continue. We continue the path through the forest and continue the ascent along the beaten forest path, beside which we notice some old blazes. The nicely followable path brings us a little higher to the next clearing, where we return to the cart track. We follow the cart track to the upper part of the clearing (at the junction in the middle of the bend we continue left), there we notice the continuation of the path. A little higher the path becomes more distinct again and steeply ascends for a short time. The path ahead brings us to a smaller clearing, where we continue right and then past the intermittent spring right again into the forest. Only a little further we arrive at a smaller wall, which the path bypasses on the right side and behind it ascends more steeply. To the "marked" path towards Kriška gora, from the smaller wall we follow it for only a few minutes, then we continue left onto a smaller ridge, where we notice a sort of barely trodden path. Along the mentioned path we ascend to the band of dwarf pines, quickly cross it and we are already on the long scree named Plaz pod Vrati.
On the scree the path is finally lost, but the direction of ascent is clear. We continue straight up the scree, which higher narrows and brings us into an even somewhat steeper gully. We continue further on the scree, then, when we reach its upper edge, we continue slightly right onto the steep path, along which in a minute of further walking we ascend to the main ridge of Kriška gora, where we reach the marked path Koča na Kriški gori - Tolsti vrh.
When after the strenuous ascent we reach the marked path, we follow it left, which then passes onto the southern slopes of the peak Vrata, the peak which we observed on our left side during the ascent on the scree. The path further returns to the ridge and ascends moderately all the time. Higher we arrive at the panoramic and precipitous forepeak of Tolsti vrh, from which a short descent follows. The path ahead ascends through the forest for some time, then it begins to thin out and the path brings us after a few minutes of further walking to the panoramic Tolsti vrh.