Liboje - Gozdnik

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Maribor motorway we turn onto the Žalec exit and continue driving towards Arja vas. At the intersection at the end of the village we drive straight in the direction of Liboje. We drive through the entire village of Liboje. From the sign for the end of the village of Liboje we continue straight on the main road for about 1 kilometer. On the left side of the road we will notice a red mountain trail sign for Šmohor and Malič. At the sign we turn left onto a gravel road, which after less than 100 meters brings us to a small parking lot.

Route description:
From the parking lot we continue along the gravel road that leads towards the nearby house, but before it we reach the marked path that began where we left the asphalt road. We follow the marked path up to the right, initially along the edge of the meadow, then the path turns right and enters the forest, through which we ascend to the marked junction and intersection at an altitude of just under 500 meters.
We continue straight in the direction of Dom na Šmohorju (left Veliki Slomnik and Tremerje, right Gozdnik and Kotečnik).
The path leads us further along the mountain trail that continues to ascend through the forest and becomes increasingly steep. Higher up it levels out and brings us to a cart track that we follow uphill. We walk along the cart track for a few minutes, then the markings direct us left onto a footpath that ascends to the next junction. Here we go right in the direction of Dom na Šmohorju, and from the left the path from Veliki Slomnik and Tremerje joins us.
Just a few steps further we reach a gravel road that we follow in the direction of Dom na Šmohorju, from which paths to Malič and towards Laško branch off to the left.
At the junction with the path from Laško we go right onto the path towards Šmohor, where the direction leads us across the meadow, and we bypass the nearby house on the right side. Behind the house we return to the road, then walk across the parking lot and through a narrow strip of forest to reach the meadow by Dom na Šmohorju.
From Dom na Šmohorju we continue in the direction of Kal, Mrzlica and Gozdnik. The path ahead first crosses a larger meadow, then enters a strip of forest through which it descends to the nearby road. When we step onto the road we continue in the same direction, and we walk along it to the place where it splits into two parts. This time we continue on the left road, which in a few dozen steps brings us to the church of St. Mohor.
From the church, around which many old linden trees grow, we descend along the marked mountain path, which soon returns to the gravel road. We continue along the road that bypasses the peak of Pernice on the right side, then it begins to descend moderately and brings us to the marked intersection. From the intersection we continue in the direction of Kal and Mrzlica and continue along a noticeably narrower gravel road that leads us past a shrine and a spring to the next intersection, where we continue straight. The road then levels out and after a few dozen meters brings us to the place where the signs for Kal, Mrzlica and Gozdnik direct us right onto an ascending cart track. The path ahead leads us past a NOB memorial, after which we soon reach the next junction. This time we continue right in the direction of Gozdnik (slightly left downhill Mrzlica), and we continue along the cart track to the place where the forest thins out a bit. Here a narrower cart track branches off to the right, along which we soon notice markings, and it gradually turns into a footpath. The path ahead steeply ascends for a short time, then levels out and gradually brings us to the ridge of Mali Gozdnik. This is followed by walking along the initially gentle ridge, then the path ascends more steeply and quickly brings us to the indistinct summit of Mali Gozdnik.
A short descent follows and the path brings us to the saddle between the two peaks of Gozdnik. The path ahead gradually begins to ascend more and more steeply, leading us along a relatively steep ridge that is especially slippery and dangerous when wet. The path levels out higher up and in a few more minutes of walking brings us to the summit, in the middle of which stands a wooden bivouac.

Along the route: Dom na Šmohorju (784m), Mali Gozdnik (981m)

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