Golnik - Tolsti vrh (via Ježa)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Kranj - west and follow the road ahead in the direction of Golnik. When we come in Golnik, on the top of the hill, we turn right in the direction of hospital Golnik. We park on one of the large parking lots, which is situated a little below hospital.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we walk to hospital, which we bypass on the left side, and then we come to mountain signposts, which point us on a footpath which ascends by the fence. After few steps, we cross the road, and then the footpath which ascends above the village leads in the forest, where starts ascending steeper. The path after a short ascent joins a wide cart track, on which we continue easy ascent. After few minutes from the cart track a marked footpath branches off to the right, and it soon brings us on other cart track which we soon leave as well. We continue the ascent on a quite steep path, which higher brings us to the vantage point (a view on Gorenjska and Jelovica).
After the vantage point, the path flattens and turns quite to the left, where it then continues in a moderate ascent. Higher, the footpath turns a little towards the right, where then in few minutes of additional walking brings us to the village Gozd. Here we continue past few houses, and then we join the path from the cottage Zavetišče v Gozdu.
We continue right in the direction of Kriška gora and the road which leads us past two successive NOB monuments we follow to its end. From the end of the road, we go slightly left and we continue the ascent on a wide and steep cart track, and it quickly brings us to the spot, where it splits into two parts. We continue on the right cart track in the direction of Storžič, Tolsti vrh and Mala and Velika Poljana (left mountain hut Koča na Kriški gori). Cart track, which is diagonally ascending towards the east has in the lower part some crossings, but those are well marked, so that at orientation there aren't any bigger problems. Higher, the cart track changes into gradually increasingly steep footpath, and out of the forest it brings us on panoramic grassy slopes. Eventually, the path flattens and it brings us to a pleasant viewpoint with a bench, by which we notice a memorial plaque.
Further, the path crosses a steep grassy slope (dangerous for slipping and in the winter time also exposed to avalanches) and then passes into a dense forest, where we come to a marked crossing. We continue left (straight Velika and Mala Poljana over Štajnarica) in the direction of Tolsti vrh and we continue steeply upwards. Steep and mainly in wet for slipping dangerous path, which is diagonally ascending towards the right, higher brings us out of the forest on a panoramic grassy slope, where it turns a little towards the left. Next follows few minutes of a steep ascent, after that from the right joins the path from the mountain hut Dom pod Storžičem and Mala Poljana.
We go in the direction of Tolsti vrh and we continue the ascent on still quite steep path, which through a thin lane of a forest brings us on the upper slope of the mountain. Here the path slightly flattens and in few minutes of additional walking brings us to the top.
Golnik - Gozd 1:00, Gozd - Tolsti vrh 2:15.

On the way: Gozd (891m)