Hruševka - Dom na Menini planini

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Kamnik, and then we continue driving through Tuhinjska dolina. We then drive through the settlements Vrhpolje, Soteska, Srednja vas, Loke and Potok. At the village Potok, a road branches off to the left towards the spa Terme Snovik, and we follow the main road only a few 100 meters or to the spot where signs for Hruševka point us to the left onto a narrower local road. On the mentioned road, we ascend to some sort of center of the village, where signs for the footpath to St. Miklavž point us to the right downward. Here the road at first descends a little and then starts gently ascending along Podbreški potok. After a short ascent, we come to the "last" house in the village, and we park a few 10 meters before, on an appropriate place by the road.
B) From the highway Maribor - Ljubljana, we go to the exit Vransko, and then we continue driving on the parallel old road towards Ljubljana. At the end of Vransko, we come to a crossroads, where we turn right towards Tuhinjska dolina. We then drive through the settlements Motnik, Špitalič, Cirkuše, Laze, Šmartno and Buč. After the village Buč, signs for Hruševka point us to the right onto a narrower local road. On the mentioned road, we ascend to some sort of center of the village, where signs for the footpath to St. Miklavž point us to the right downward. Here the road at first descends a little and then starts gently ascending along Podbreški potok. After a short ascent, we come to the "last" house in the village, and we park a few 10 meters before, on an appropriate place by the road.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue sharply right in the direction of the footpath to St. Miklavž. The path at first ascends through a strip of forest and then brings us along the edge of pastures, from where a nice view opens up on the surroundings. Initially a somewhat more overgrown path temporarily returns to the forest and then leads us past a log cabin, behind which we also cross a strip of bushes. After the bushes, the path widens into a cart track, which turns sharply to the left and brings us into dense forest. For a short time we still walk on the cart track, and then the blazes direct us right onto an increasingly steep footpath. This quite steep path, which ascends through the forest the whole time, we then follow all the way to the church of St. Miklavž on Gora, from which a beautiful view opens up.
From the church of St. Miklavž we continue on a macadam road in the direction of Prevala. The road first starts to descend slightly, and then brings us to the spot where a short footpath branches off to the left downward toward the nearby spring; we continue on the road, which starts gently ascending. After a short ascent, the road brings us to a smaller saddle, where a marked footpath branches off to the right toward Prevala. We head onto the mentioned path, which temporarily descends slightly and then transitions onto the ridge named V grebenih.
Here the path becomes quite steep and continues on and along locally quite steep and in a few places also somewhat exposed ridge (especially when wet there is a risk of slipping on certain sections). Higher up the path levels out and brings us from the ridge to the edge of a larger and overgrown clearing. Here the path turns left into the forest and gently descends to the nearby forest road, which we follow to the left. For some time we descend along the mentioned road, and then we arrive at a crossroads in the middle of which stands a cross. From the crossroads we continue on the marked cart track in the direction of Prevala, to which we have another 40 minutes of ascent. The cart track ahead ascends relatively steeply through the forest, higher it crosses an old clearing, then levels out and brings us to a poorly marked junction.
At the spot where the cart track turns left, a marked footpath continues straight ahead, which first ascends moderately, higher steeply through the forest. This path, which in the last section before Prevala is also overgrown with raspberry bushes, we follow all the way to the saddle Prevala, from which a nice view opens up.
From Prevala we continue toward the north and begin descending across panoramic slopes of the upper part of planina Ravni. After a short descent we step onto a wider cart track, follow it to the right, and after a few 10 steps of further walking we arrive at the shepherd's hut on the mentioned planina.
From planina Ravni we continue in the direction of Dom na Menini planini and planina Travnik. The path ahead rises slightly and quickly enters the forest, through which it then continues for some time. A bit further we join a wide cart track, along which we soon emerge from the forest. When we emerge from the forest, we step onto the western part of planina Travnik, across which we then walk to the shepherd's hut on the other side of the planina. A poorly visible little path leads us there, crossing the planina.
From the hut we continue past the nearby cross and bell, behind which the marked path turns right. There follows pleasant walking on the path, which first ascends gently, then moderately across expansive pastures. Higher the path enters the forest, where it gradually begins to descend. The path soon starts ascending again and brings us to a macadam road, which we follow to the right. We walk a few minutes on the mentioned road, and then the blazes direct us right onto a footpath that ascends moderately through dense forest. Higher we cross the road once again, which gradually brings us onto the pastures of Menina planina. With a few shorter ascents and descents we continue along the pleasant path, to which after a somewhat longer descent also joins the path from Gornji Grad (path past Jespe).
We continue right in the direction of Dom na Menini planini, along the path that crosses a strip of forest and then brings us to the parking lot near the already mentioned mountain hut. From the parking lot we continue across the meadow and along the path, from which a nice view opens up onto the chain of Kamniško Savinjskih Alp, quickly bringing us to Dom na Menini planini.

On the way: Sveti Miklavž na Gori (757m), Prevala (1163m), Planina Ravni (1075m), Planina Travnik (1180m)

Trip can be extended to: Vivodnik ( 20 min)