Lipa - Vivodnik

Access to starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Celje we take the exit Vransko. We continue driving on the old road in the direction of Ljubljana, but only to the spot where the road towards Vransko branches off to the right. On the west side of Vransko we will notice a road which goes towards the village Prapreče and Vologa. We follow the road that then starts ascending more steeply through the village Vologa to the saddle Lipa, where we park on one of the parking areas.
Access from Zadrečka Valley is also possible.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head onto a macadam road in the direction of Smolnik and Menina planina. The moderately steep road, which runs through the forest the whole time, brings us after a good 10 minutes of walking to a marked junction, where we continue left. The road ahead flattens slightly, then continues crossing the slopes of Smolnik. After a while we will notice signs for Smolnik by the road (sharply right), but we continue on the macadam road, which gradually starts gently descending. A little further ahead the marked path cuts a longer bend, then returns to the road, where it starts descending more steeply. A smaller ascent follows, then the road descends to the lonely farm Jeseničnik, where the path from the village Vologa joins from the left.
We continue across the yard, then at the farm outbuilding we continue right onto a cart track. The cart track then ascends transversely towards the left, crossing a panoramic grassy hayfield from which a nice view opens onto Posavsko hribovje. When the path enters the forest, it turns sharply right, then ascends somewhat more steeply to the junction with a poor forest road. A little further, a wide cart track branches off slightly to the left from the mentioned road, which after a few minutes of further walking brings us to extensive grassy slopes called Slopi.
Here on the right side we notice a lonely house, but we continue in the same direction and walk across a poorly visible cart track to the middle of the grassy slope. Here we encounter a somewhat wider cart track, which we follow to the right and descend in a gentle descent along it to a smaller hamlet. Here we cross the pasture fence and step onto the road, which we follow westwards. The road then bypasses the hamlet on the right side and after a few steps of further walking brings us to a junction where a small cross stands. At the cross we continue straight ahead (direction Biba), but along the left road, which slowly starts to ascend. After a short gentle ascent the road brings us into the forest, and the blazes direct us right onto a steep footpath. The mentioned footpath soon crosses a wide cart track, then continues along a quite overgrown and already abandoned cart track. Higher up we join a wider cart track, which we then follow all the way out of the forest (since the cart track has some junctions, we carefully follow the blazes). When we step out of the forest the path turns right and after a few minutes of further walking brings us to a macadam road leading to Menina planina. We continue the ascent along the mentioned road, which at first offers nice views of the surrounding hills. The relatively gentle road then takes us past Limovska planina, which we follow to the place where the blazes direct us right, across the pasture fence onto a footpath. The footpath immediately turns left and quickly brings us along the edge of the forest to the shelter on Biba planina.
From Biba planina we continue along the marked path, which just behind the chapel turns somewhat to the left and then moderately ascends across pleasant slopes. Higher up the path flattens, crosses a stone fence and then continues across pleasant grassy terrain. After a few minutes of further walking the path descends slightly, then at a small watering place crosses a wooden pasture fence. Ahead the path crosses a short stretch of forest, then joins a macadam road. We continue the ascent along the mentioned gentle road, then the blazes direct us slightly left onto a footpath that ascends transversely above the Biba pond. On the other side of the pond the path ascends somewhat more steeply, then crosses the road again. We continue the ascent along the marked footpath, which to the hut Dom na Menini planini crosses the road a few more times or also continues along it.
From the hut we continue along the marked path in the direction of Vivodnik. After some 10 easy steps, the path steeply ascends for a short time, then flattens and brings us to a larger grassy slope, where we encounter a signpost reading "Vivodnik - krožna pot". We continue slightly left (we can return along the right path) along a relatively gentle path that quickly brings us into a short stretch of forest. Here the path ascends again for a short time, then brings us out of the forest, where we already see the lookout tower on Vivodnik ahead of us, which we reach after a few steps of further walking.
The entire path is orientationally relatively difficult, especially in fog.

On the way: Slopi (974m), Limovska planina (1265m), Zavetišče na Biba planini mountain hut (1300m), Dom na Menini planini mountain hut (1453m)