Češnjica pri Kropi - Partisan cottage on Vodiška planina (via Berigla)
Starting point: Češnjica pri Kropi (484 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2895°N 14.2272°E
Path name: via Berigla
Time of walking: 2 h 40 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way, easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 624 m
Altitude difference (by path): 805 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Naklo (possible also exit for Tržič), and then we follow the signs for Kropa. In Podnart, after the crossing of river Sava we continue left and then past the turn for Ovsiše, in few kilometers we get to a crossroad, where we turn left in the direction of Češnjica pri Kropi. Next follows crossing of Lipnica, and then at the crossroad we choose the right road in the direction of Na Kmetih (straight - Na Kajžah). Through the mentioned hamlet we continue straight, and behind the houses we go on the most left road, and then we park on an appropriate place by the church of St. Tomaž.
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 few kilometers before the mentioned settlement we turn right in the direction of Češnjica pri Kropi. Next follows crossing of Lipnica, and then at the crossroad we choose the right road in the direction of Na Kmetih (straight - Na Kajžah). Through the mentioned hamlet we continue straight, and behind the houses we go on the most left road, and then we park on an appropriate place by the church of St. Tomaž.
C) From the road Dražgoše - Zgornja Besnica, in hamlet Log, we drive on a side road in the direction of Njivica and Rovte and further towards Češnjica pri Kropi. From Češnjica in hamlet Na Kajžah we continue a little left, on a side road, on which we drive to the church of St. Tomaž, where we park at the appropriate place.
Path description:
From the church, we continue on the macadam road towards the hamlet Na Kmetih, and before the houses, we go on the left road which lightly ascends through the pasture. Above the pasture, the road passes into the forest, where it quickly flattens and then descends a little to a larger meadow, which we bypass on the left side. When the smaller plain ends, we choose a slightly right cart track which starts ascending diagonally and a little higher returns into the forest. Few minutes of ascent through the forest follows, and higher we reach the ridge, where we join the marked path from Kropa, and from the right also an unmarked path from Brezovica joins.
We continue left 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: Berigla (685m)
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