Mače - Srednji vrh (via Kozjek and Cjanovca)

Access to starting point:
A) From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the exit Kranj - east, then continue driving in the direction of Jezersko. When we arrive in Preddvor, we leave the main road and continue driving left towards the centre of the mentioned settlement; from there, we follow the signs for Mače. When we arrive in Mače, at the marked junction we continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Miklavž (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up a narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.
B) From the highway Jesenice - Ljubljana, we take the exit Kranj - west and at the first junction continue left. We then drive through the underpass under the highway and arrive at a roundabout, from which we continue driving in the direction of Golnik. The route takes us through the settlement of Mlaka pri Kranju, and at the end of the settlement we continue right in the direction of the settlement Srakovlje. This is followed by driving through Srakovlje, Spodnja Bela, Srednja Bela to Zgornja Bela, where we continue right towards Preddvor. In Preddvor, we notice signs for Mače, which direct us left past the primary school onto a road that ascends to Mače. When we arrive in Mače, at the marked junction we continue right (left Bašelj, straight church of St. Miklavž (the church is not accessible by car)) and drive up a narrow road above the village, where there is a larger marked parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return to the road from which we turned onto the parking lot and continue the ascent there in the direction of Kališče. At first, we walk through the forest; the road a few minutes higher approaches the stream Suha, which we also cross twice a little further on. After approximately 20 minutes we arrive at a marked junction, where the usual path towards Kališče continues left, and we continue right in the direction of Srednji vrh, Kališče over Kozjek and Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu over Kozjek. The increasingly poor road brings us a little further to a cargo cableway, which leads towards the Dom na Kališču.
The ascent further on is, due to the labyrinth of tracks, somewhat more difficult orientationally, but if we carefully follow the blazes, we cannot go wrong. Higher up, the track turns into a steep footpath, which after some time brings us to the ridge of Kozjek. Here the path levels out and turns left, then after a few minutes of further walking brings us to a marked junction.
Here the path to Kališče branches off to the left, and we continue on the right path. After that we cross a gully and already after a few dozen steps of further walking we come to the next junction, where we continue straight ahead (left Dolga njiva, Cjanovca and Srednji vrh) in the direction of Hudičev boršt. This is followed by a few minutes of traversing, which in the final part runs across a grassy slope, then at the edge of Hudičev boršt we join the somewhat shorter Mačenska pot.
We continue past the spring and then after one or two minutes of further walking arrive at the Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu.
From the shelter we continue eastwards, where we quickly leave Hudičev boršt and arrive at the point where we emerge from the forest. On the initial section where we emerge from the forest, a steel cable assists us in the moderate descent, continuing for a few metres of traversing across a relatively steep slope. The path continues across the fairly steep grassy slope of Zaplata, which is extremely avalanche-prone in winter. The traversing of the grassy slope, which especially when wet is slippery in places but otherwise technically undemanding, ends after approximately 15 minutes and the path brings us into the forest. This is followed by approximately another 15 minutes of traversing through the forest, then we arrive at a marked junction, where we continue left in the direction of Srednji vrh and Cjanovca (slightly right Javorov vrh, right sv. Jakob and Potoška gora).
We continue on the path, which begins to ascend more steeply along and beside the eastern ridge of Cjanovca. Higher up, the path brings us out of the forest onto slopes covered with dwarf pines, and we continue on an ever steeper and in places very scenic path. The path, from which there are fine views of Kočna, Grintovec, Kalški greben and Gorenjska, gradually turns slightly to the left. We follow this increasingly scenic and relatively steep path all the way to the summit of Cjanovca, on which there is a bench and a smaller cairn.
From Cjanovca we continue northwards on the path which descends through a belt of dwarf pines to the saddle between Cjanovca and Srednji vrh. Here we step onto the ridge, which we then follow to Srednji vrh, reaching it after a few minutes of further walking.
Mače - Hudičev boršt 2:00, Hudičev boršt - Cjanovca 1:45, Cjanovca - Srednji vrh 15 minutes.

On the way: Zavetišče v Hudičevem borštu (1328m), Cjanovca (1820m)