Dom Trilobit - Potoški Stol (via Rida)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana–Jesenice highway, take the Lipce exit and follow the road ahead towards Jesenice. When we come to the traffic-light junction where we join the old road, we continue right towards Žirovnica. We follow this road only briefly, as at the next slightly larger junction (traffic lights) we continue left towards Javorniški Rovt. The road then goes through the underpass (railway) and then turns left (right Koroška Bela). We follow the road, which higher up starts to ascend steeply, towards Javorniški Rovt, but only to the junction where, in a sharp left bend, the road branches off to the right (straight ahead) towards the Dom Trilobit mountain hut and the Javornik spring (prohibited for buses). A little further, the road brings us to the mentioned mountain hut and the reservoir at HE Javornik. We park on the unarranged parking lot behind the lake and the Dom Trilobit mountain hut (parking in front of the mountain hut is not allowed).

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head along the cart track in the direction of the natural science and mining educational trail. The cart track immediately starts to ascend quite steeply on the left side of the stream, which we hear nearby. Soon the path brings us to a wooden pole on which the signpost for Planina Seča directs us slightly left (right to the Javornik spring and Planina Stamare). The cart track then brings us near the stream, alongside which we ascend to the spring (one of the springs of the Javornik stream). Beyond the spring, the cart track turns into a footpath, which ascends quite steeply in places through mostly quite overgrown forest. The path then approaches a rock face and turns left in front of it. There follows an even less steep ascent to a bench, which is not in the best condition. The path continues ascending through increasingly sparse forest, so that we occasionally get nice views of the surroundings. A little further on, we will notice on the right side a kind of amphitheatre named Rida (right leads an unmarked and quite overgrown path towards Belščica). Our path turns left and after a short non-steep ascent we reach the signposts at the start of Planina Seča.
Here we continue right towards Stol and Vajnež (left Struška and Golica) along the path, which further gently ascends over partly grassy and dwarf pine slopes. There follows a short descent and the path brings us to the screes surrounding the cirque Rida. Further, with a gentle traverse ascent, we cross scree slopes (in the central section there is danger of falling rocks on a short stretch) and on the other side of Rida we ascend one level higher. Further on, the gradient eases and the increasingly panoramic path brings us past the summit of the almost imperceptible Kamnitnik (1 minute). The path continues with a gentle ascent, crossing the slopes to the east, and a little further crosses a somewhat more pronounced gully.
The still gentle and increasingly panoramic path then brings us after a while to a marked junction, where an unmarked path branches off left upwards to Vajnež (20 minutes); we continue straight along the path, which turns slightly right and after a few steps of descent brings us into the valley between Vajnež and Potoški Stol (near Vajneževo sedlo). The path merely crosses this valley and then ascends more steeply towards the ridge of Potoški Stol. On the ridge, the marked path turns left, and we follow it to the point where it leaves the ridge. We continue straight along the broad and gentle ridge all the way to the summit of Potoški Stol, which we reach in a few dozen paces.
From the summit, we can descend a few dozen metres to the cross on Potoški Stol. In fog, we will find the cross more difficultly.
Starting point - Planina Seča 2:00, Planina Seča - Potoški Stol 2:00.

On the way: Planina Seča (1698m), Vajneževo sedlo (1972m)

Trip can be extended to: Weinasch/Vajnež , Hochstuhl/Stol ( 30 min)