Matizovec - Veliko Kladivo

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, we take the Ljubelj exit and follow the road ahead towards the border crossing. We leave the main road at the spot where the signs for »camp and Podljubelj« direct us to the right. When we leave the main road, we will already after a few meters come to a crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of »Kofce«. Further, we drive through the village on a slightly ascending road and then turn right in the direction of »Matizovec and Kofce«. We then follow this occasionally somewhat narrower road, which is asphalted in the lower part, to a larger marked parking lot, about 150 elevation meters below the farm Matizovec.

Path description:
From the large free parking lot we continue on a macadam road, on which in approximately 20 minutes we arrive at the farm Matizovec.
From Matizovec we continue on the right marked road, which through a meadow quickly brings us to a smaller crossroad. We again continue on the right upper road, which then quickly changes into an often quite muddy cart track. After a few minutes' walk we leave the cart track and head onto a footpath, which starts to ascend more steeply through the forest. The marked path then crosses a few cart tracks and higher brings us to a somewhat larger clearing, where we continue slightly right into the forest. The path ahead ascends diagonally, higher turns left and brings us out of the forest, where we join the macadam road (Jelendol). We continue left upwards and after a few minutes of further walking the path brings us to the mountain hut Dom na Kofcah.
From the mountain hut we continue in the direction of Veliki vrh and Kladivo on an initially somewhat less visible path, which starts ascending across a panoramic meadow. After 15 minutes of walking from the Dom na Kofcah hut we reach a nice viewpoint at the cross.
The path then descends slightly and in a few minutes brings us to the steeper slopes of Košuta. The path then ascends through a belt of dwarf pines, bringing us to a junction. We continue right (straight to Veliki vrh) on the path to which an unmarked but signposted path from the mountain pasture Šija joins after just a few meters. We continue left upwards on the path, which ascends steeply and quickly brings us to an exposed passage. Without fixed protection we cross a short but crumbly and slightly exposed ledge, after which we enter a belt of dwarf pines. The path ahead ascends through a short belt of dwarf pines, then continues along the side ridge of Košuta. An increasingly panoramic and quite steep path then joins the ridge path higher up.
We continue right in the direction of Kladivo (left Veliki vrh, straight upwards Kofce gora 10 steps) on a path which starts to descend slightly along the edge of the ridge. The very panoramic ridge path, which runs on and along the main ridge, is slightly exposed in a few places ahead but dry passages pose no problems.
A little further ahead the path approaches the indistinct summit (Malo Kladivo), to which a short steep ascent brings us.
From Malo Kladivo the path starts descending and quickly brings us to a smaller saddle between the two Kladivos. Here an easy unmarked path from the mountain pasture Šija joins from the right (return option), but we continue straight on the path, which starts ascending more steeply up the summit slope of Kladivo. After 10 minutes of steep and slippery walking, the path brings us to the panoramic summit.
Starting point - Matizovec 20 minutes, Matizovec - Kofce 1:15, Kofce - Kofce gora 1:00, Kofce gora - Kladivo 45 minutes.

On the way: Matizovec (1072m), Dom na Kofcah mountain hut (1488m), Kofce gora (1967m), Malo Kladivo (2036m)