Dražgoše (Na Pečeh) - Partisan cottage on Vodiška planina
Starting point: Dražgoše (Na Pečeh) (816 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.2521°N 14.1771°E
Time of walking: 2 h 35 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 292 m
Altitude difference (by path): 550 m
Map: Škofjeloško in Cerkljansko hribovje 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
A) We drive to Železniki, and then we continue driving towards Dražgoše. Through Dražgoše we follow the main road to part of the village named Na Pečeh, where we notice signs for Bičkova skala. At the mentioned crossroad there is the beginning of the described path. Nearby there aren't any parking spots.
B) We drive to Kranj, and then we follow the signs for Besnica (turn off from old road Ljubljana - Kranj is before the bridge over the river Sava, or after the bridge if we come from the direction Kranj). Further, we drive through Spodnja and Zgornja Besnica and Njivica. Even a little further, we get to Nemilje, after the mentioned settlement the road starts ascending steeper. When we get to Podblica, we follow the main road, above Podblica we reach the main road Kropa - Dražgoše, which we follow to the left (if turn is too sharp is few 10 meters to the right settled a turning point). Further, we drive past the church of St. Jedert, and then we already get to Dražgoše, where at first we get to a crossroad, where the road towards Sveti Križ branches off to the left. Here we continue on the main road, and then we get to the center of Dražgoše, where on an area named Na Pečeh we notice signs for Bičkova skala (signs are from the opposite direction of the road), where the described path begins. Nearby there aren't any parking spots.
C) We drive into Kropa, and then we continue driving towards Dražgoše and Železniki. When we get to Dražgoše, in the center of Dražgoše, on an area named Na Pečeh we notice signs for Bičkova skala (signs are from the opposite direction of the road), where the described path begins. Nearby there aren't any parking spots.
Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on a side road in the direction of Bičkova skala and Dražgoška gora. We at first walk on a steep asphalt road towards the hamlet Jelenšče, and then we continue left on the road in the direction of house numbers Dražgoše 43, 68 and 70. With nice views on still asphalt road we ascend to the edge of the forest, where from the road to the right the path branches off, which leads towards Dražgoška gora, mountain pasture Kališnik and mountain pasture Vodiška planina (turn-off isn't marked). After a short ascent, at the crossing we continue right (trail blaze shows direction straight), and then we ascend through a panoramic meadow. When a little ahead we reach a wider path, we continue left (right we return to an asphalt road, but we reach it higher than our starting point), and then we are for quite some time ascending there diagonally towards the left. Even a little further, we reach the cart track which we only cross and we continue in the direction of the mountain pasture Kališnik and Vodice (left Dražgoška gora 5 minutes, right Jelenšče), on the path which ascends a little steeper, and a little ahead it reaches the edge of plateau Jelovica, where it flattens and a little ahead joins the cart track (here we join the path which leads past a viewpoint Dražgoška gora), which we follow slightly to the right. Cart track soon brings us to a forest road, where there is a marked crossing.
The left road continues in the direction of Partizanski vrh, slightly left downwards the path leads to an abandoned mountain pasture Kališe, and we continue right, on the road in the direction of the mountain pasture Vodiška planina. On the other side of the mountain pasture Kališe, we soon leave the road and we continue slightly left on the path in the direction of Vodice. Further, we mostly walk on forest cart tracks, and at the crossings we follow the blazes. A little further, we for some time return on the road which we follow to the left, and from there we soon go right, again in the direction of Vodice. Further at the crossings we still follow the blazes, and the path brings us to the cottage Rženova bajta.
We bypass the mentioned cottage on the right side, and signs for mountain pasture Vodiška planina lead into a dense forest. Further, we still follow the signs for Vodice or mountain pasture Vodiška planina, and then we get to a crossing, where the marked path branches off to the left on Ratitovec.
We continue right in an already known direction, and then from the right side the first path from Jamnik joins, and lower by NOB monument also the second.
We continue the descent, this time on the path which is relatively steeply descending, and it flattens when we reach the edge of the mountain pasture Vodiška planina, from where to Partisan cottage we have only two more minutes of walking.
Na Pečeh - Kališnik 1:05, Kališnik - Vodiška planina 1:30.
Description and pictures refer to a condition in the year 2018 (January).
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