Matevljek - Petelinjek

Access to starting point:
A) From the road Ljubljana - Kočevje near the settlement Žlebič we turn onto the road in the direction of Sodražica. In Sodražica we leave the main road and continue driving in the direction of the settlement Hrib - Loški potok. Further we drive on an initially ascending and quite winding road, which we follow to the previously mentioned settlement. When the road from Nova vas na Blokah joins from the right, we continue straight, then at the next crossroad right in the direction of Srednja vas. Here the road starts to descend more steeply, and a little lower at the next crossroad we continue straight in the direction of Šegova vas. In Šegova vas we choose the left road, then past a few houses we ascend onto extensive meadows through which we arrive at the hamlet Matevljek. Above the hamlet the road loses its asphalt surface and gradually enters the forest. When we arrive at the junction of several roads, we park at a suitable spot by the junction. We park in such a way that we do not obstruct possible forestry work.
B) From the motorway Ljubljana - Koper we take the exit Unec, then continue driving towards Cerknica and further to Nova vas. In Nova vas, at an indistinct but still well-marked crossroad, we continue straight on the road in the direction of Sodražica, then after approximately 1 km of further driving right in the direction of Studenec na Blokah. At the following crossroads we follow the road in the direction of the settlement Hrib - Loški Potok. When we join the road from Sodražica we continue straight, then at the next crossroad right in the direction of Srednja vas. Here the road starts to descend more steeply, and a little lower at the next crossroad we continue straight in the direction of Šegova vas. In Šegova vas we choose the left road, then past a few houses we ascend onto extensive meadows through which we arrive at the hamlet Matevljek. Above the hamlet the road loses its asphalt surface and gradually enters the forest. When we arrive at the junction of several roads, we park at a suitable spot by the junction. We park in such a way that we do not obstruct possible forestry work.

Path description:
From the crossroad where we parked we continue on the upper right road (looking in the direction of access to the starting point), which starts moderately ascending through the forest. We follow the road along which we can also notice some old blazes to the spot where the forest temporarily ends. Here we continue right on a cart track, which returns into the forest. We continue through a quite thin forest, and the cart track quickly brings us to the next junction, where we continue on the leftmost cart track. The cart track, which then moderately ascends, brings us a few minutes higher to a less noticeable junction, where a somewhat better marked path branches off to the right towards Votla stena and Velika Jazbina, and we continue straight on a quite poorly marked path; at the next junctions we follow slightly left. The path ahead leads us past a frost hollow, and on the other side of it slowly starts to disappear. We continue the ascent on a barely visible footpath, which starts to ascend more steeply through a smaller and relatively steep valley. Here too we can notice some old blazes during the ascent, and the path brings us out of the forest after a few minutes, where we step onto a macadam road.
We merely cross the mentioned road and walk to the nearby meadow. Here the blazes finally end, and we can continue on the left gentler or right slightly steeper cart track. If we continue on the left cart track, we walk along it until it completely levels out. At that spot we leave it and head right onto easier pathless terrain. From the spot where we leave the cart track to the summit of Petelinjek we have approximately 5 minutes of ascent through the forest.
If we continue on the right cart track, we ascend along it to a smaller saddle between Velika Jazbina on the right and Petelinjek on the left. At the saddle we leave the cart track and continue left into the forest, through which in good 5 minutes of further walking we ascend to the forested summit.