Koroška Bela (RC Kres) - Potoška planina (hunting path Čez skalo)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana-Jesenice highway, we take the Lipce exit (Jesenice east) and drive right towards Jesenice. At the first traffic-light intersection (Slovenski Javornik), we turn right in the direction of Lj. Next comes the second intersection with traffic lights, where we turn left and drive under the railway underpass. At the next smaller intersection, we turn right towards Koroška Bela. At the chapel on the left, we follow the signs "cerkev, park talcev" and turn left. The road higher up, behind the double bend, brings us to the centre of the village, where a chapel stands. From here, we continue driving straight past the bridge over the Bela stream on the right. At the next intersection, we turn sharply left uphill, where we cross another road (Koroška ulica) and continue all the way to the area at the end of the settlement, where we come upon abandoned tennis courts (RC Kres).

Route description:
From the starting point, we return back along the road to the intersection with Koroška ulica, where we turn left. After a short time, we join the main road, along which we continue past the last houses on the northern part of the village. With gentle ascending, the road turns into a stone cart track which leads us past a water trough on the right, towards the head of the valley. The path along the forest edge soon brings us to a junction by the stream, where we continue left. A little higher, the path crosses the right tributary of the stream and continues with a gentle ascent to the next nearby junction, where we continue right along the stream (slightly left Debelo brdo). The path, occasionally similar to a rutted cart track (vlaki), along the stream first crosses yet another right tributary from the left, then takes us through a short gorge. When the valley widens slightly again, we cross the stream and continue along the cart track, which for a short time moves away from the stream bed. Higher up, the path approaches the stream again, and at a somewhat larger rock in it, it seemingly ends. Here we cross the stream, and only for a short time continue along the left side (right bank), after which we cross back to the right side (left bank), where the path becomes traceable again. When it brings us a little higher into the forest, the path moves away from the stream and turns right onto the forest slope. After a short ascent, the path turns right again, widens, and while ascending crosses the slope towards the south. On the right, somewhat lower, we can notice a hunting stand, and soon we come upon the remains of a hayloft, above which we continue to the right along a somewhat harder-to-follow path, which while ascending continues to cross the slope in the same direction. When higher up the steepness eases, the path disappears at a small stream, and we step out of the forest onto a somewhat boggy meadow (Spodnji rovti). After crossing the meadow (pathless), we reach the eastern part of the rovti, where we head left (north), steeply uphill towards their end, where we see a partly rocky summit ahead (also Zgornji Obešnik). Before the path noticed here, which turns slightly right and would take us back into the forest, we head perpendicularly left and cross the southern foot of the slope of the mentioned summit towards the northwest (pathless). When we soon reach the western edge, on the slope from the right we notice a few metres high, upright boulder, to which we climb. Here we find a narrow path which ascends and initially crosses the steep slope towards the north. Soon the path turns right and brings us a little higher to the rocky and open part of the slope, where views open up on several sides. Beyond the rocky section, the path on a somewhat exposed part turns left onto a fairly steep, overgrown slope. When we climb to the top, we can enjoy beautiful views into the valley. Here we also notice a stand attached to the rock for a device measuring terrain movements. We continue along the locally narrow ridge of the summit towards the north. When thereafter in the forest section we cross a pasture fence, we leave the path (which continues slightly left along the slope) and ascend straight through a small clearing, through which we look onto the slope of Potoški Stol. Quickly we find ourselves on the extensive pastures of Potoška planina, where for a short time we continue along the left edge of the forest, and a little higher we cross part of the pasture towards the east. When we reach the bed of the stream, along it and crossing the pasture fence (somewhat higher) we continue uphill across the pasture all the way to the shepherd's hut on Potoška planina.

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