Brezovica - Partisan cottage on Vodiška planina
Starting point: Brezovica (440 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.305°N 14.2079°E
Time of walking: 2 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way, easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 668 m
Altitude difference (by path): 840 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) Highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we leave at exit Naklo, or we can leave it also at the junction Podtabor, and then we follow the signs for Podbrezje, Podnart and Kropa. After the crossing of a railway track in Podnart we continue left and we drive towards Kropa. When on the left we notice factory of the company Iskra Mehanizmi d.o.o., we are already near the starting point. After the company, the road branches off to the left towards the village Brezovica, and a little ahead we park on a parking lot on the right side of the road.
B) From highway Jesenice - Ljubljana we go to the exit Lesce or Radovljica, and then we continue driving in the direction of Radovljica and later village Lancovo, Lipnica, Kamna Gorica and Kropa, in which we don't drive into. We continue towards Podnart, and then we park only a little further from the crossroad on a parking lot on the left side of the road, opposite the company Iskra Mehanizmi.
C) We drive to Železniki, and then we continue driving towards Kropa. After Kropa, opposite the company Iskra Mehanizmi, we park on a parking lot on the left side of the road.
Path description:
From the spot, where we've parked, we walk to a crossroad, where the road splits towards Kropa and Kamna Gorica. At the crossroad, by the road sign 0.0 km, we will notice a footpath which ascends through the forest. On the footpath we quickly ascend to the cart track which we follow to the left, and from there still before we step out of the forest on a larger meadow, we continue slightly right on a beaten footpath which at first ascends diagonally, and when it reaches a smaller ridge turns right. Further, we are for some time moderately ascending through the forest, and higher from the left, the path which leads from the center of the village Brezovica joins.
We continue on the ascending path, which on the left side bypasses Kugla (the peak with transmitters), and then lightly descends to a marked crossing, where from the left joins an unmarked path from Češnjica pri Kropi, and from the right a marked path from Kropa.
We continue towards Jamnik, and the path leads us on a forested ridge and after a short ascent, we reach an indistinct peak of Berigla. Higher, the path from the ridge gradually passes on a slope and splits.
The path branches off to the left towards Jamnik, and we go left few steps ahead at the marked crossing, from which we continue on a steep path in the direction of the mountain pasture Vodiška planina. Next follows few minutes of a steep ascent, and then we cross an asphalt road.
On the other side of the road, we continue on a marked cart track, and from there we soon go right on a footpath which after few minutes returns on a cart track. Next follows a relatively short ascent on a cart track, where we make few hairpin turns, and then the cart track narrows into a mountain path. During the further ascent for some time a view opens up a little towards Jamnik, and after a smaller religious symbol, the footpath widens into a cart track, and it brings us to a crossing, where from the left the path from Jamnik joins.
We follow the signs for Vodice, and we quickly get to a crossing, where the path branches off to the left to Tehnika Meta, and we continue right towards Vodice.
Further, we walk on a gentle path which leads us on a plateau terrain of forested Jelovica.
From the old cart track eventually signs for Vodice point us to the right on an easy to follow footpath which gradually ascends on the ridge of Zidana skala. We some time walk by the ridge and then we get to the vantage point Zidana skala, from which a nice view opens up on Karawanks and Kamnik Savinja Alps.
From the vantage point, the path returns into the forest and then it is ascending by the edge of very steep and mainly in wet for slipping dangerous slopes. The path ahead is for few minutes ascending, and then turns slightly to the right and starts relatively steeply descending. During the descent, we still walk by the edge of steep slopes, which are dangerous for slipping, about this we also get warned by a memorial plaque of a mountaineer. The path then gradually flattens and it brings us to NOB monument, where we join a wider cart track.
Here we go right and we continue on a cart track which after few minutes starts descending steeply towards the mountain pasture Vodiška planina. After a short descent, the path flattens and brings us on the mentioned mountain pasture, in the middle of which stands Partisan cottage.
On the way: Kugla (626m), Berigla (685m)
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