Hruševka - Planina Travnik

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Kamnik, and then we continue driving through the Tuhinjska valley. Further ahead we 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 m 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 downwards. Here the road at first descends a little and then starts gently ascending along the Podbreški potok. After a short ascent, we come to the "last" house in the village, and we park a few 10 m before, on an appropriate place by the road.
B) From the highway Maribor - Ljubljana we take the exit Vransko, and then we continue driving on the parallel old road towards Ljubljana. At the end of Vransko we will get to an intersection, where we turn right towards the Tuhinjska valley. Further ahead we 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 downwards. Here the road at first descends a little and then starts gently ascending along the Podbreški potok. After a short ascent, we come to the "last" house in the village, and we park a few 10 m 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 first ascends through a belt of forest, then brings us to the edge of pastures, from where a nice view of the surroundings opens up. Initially somewhat more overgrown path temporarily returns to the forest, then leads us past a log cabin, after which we also cross a belt 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, then the blazes direct us to the right onto an increasingly steep footpath. This quite steep path, which ascends through the forest all the 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 slightly descending, then brings us to the spot where a short footpath branches off to the left downwards towards the nearby spring, and we continue further on the road, which starts gently ascending. After a short ascent, the road brings us to a smaller saddle, where a marked footpath to Prevala branches off to the right. We head onto the mentioned path, which temporarily descends slightly, then transitions onto the ridge named V grebenih.
Here the path becomes quite steep and continues on and beside locally quite steep and in some places also slightly exposed ridge (especially in the wet there is on certain sections danger of slipping). Higher the path flattens 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, then we arrive at an intersection, in the middle of which stands a cross. From the intersection we continue on a marked cart track in the direction of Prevala, to which we still have 40 minutes of ascent. The cart track further ascends relatively steeply through the forest, higher it crosses an old clearing, then flattens 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 part 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 towards the north and start descending across panoramic slopes of the upper part of the mountain pasture 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 arrive at the shepherd's hut on the mentioned pasture.
From the mountain pasture Planina Ravni we continue in the direction of the Dom na Menini planini hut and Planina Travnik mountain pasture. The path ahead rises slightly and quickly enters the forest, through which it then continues for some time. A little further we join a wide cart track, along which we soon exit the forest. When we exit 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 pasture. A poorly visible path leads us there, crossing the pasture.

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

Trip can be extended to: Dom na Menini planini (2 h) , Vivodnik (2 h 20 min)