Smrečje - Partisan hospital Krtina
Starting point: Smrečje (854 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.3993°N 14.469°E 
Time of walking: 55 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 186 m
Altitude difference (by path): 186 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
We drive to Preddvor or to the settlement Tupaliče, and then we continue driving in the direction of the settlement Zgornje Jezersko. Only a little after the road sign, which marks the end of the settlement Spodnje Jezersko, at the end of hamlet we turn left in the direction of GRZS learning center, tufa quarry, partisan hospital Krtina... Further, we drive through the valley of Komatevra, and by the path, we can observe numerous rapids and waterfalls of river Kokra. A little before the traffic sign, which from 20th July to 20th October prohibits further driving, we park on a parking lot by the road.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on a macadam road, and it quickly brings us to a smaller crossroad. We continue on wider, slightly left road, by which there is a gate and which still continues by the river Kokra. The road higher makes two hairpin turns and it brings us to a marked crossroad below abandoned homestead Robnik (on some maps also Robenik).
From the crossroad, we continue on the left road in the direction of partisan hospital Krtina and valley Komatevra (slightly right GRZS learning center on Virnikova planina), and by the path, we soon notice a warning, that we entered the area of dwelling of brown bear. The path ahead leads us also over a wooden bridge, and then signs for partisan hospital Krtina point us to the right on a footpath which continues along a smaller stream. Already after few additional strides, we get to the information board of partisan hospital Krtina, and then over two small bridges and past a table with benches we continue few more 10 strides by the stream and then the footpath leads slightly right into a steep hill, where we are ascending with the help of stairs. The path soon turns right and it brings us to renovated partisan hospital, which was built in September in the year 1944 and it burned down in January 1945.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in January 2020.
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