Mesnice - Rotovc (via Županov vrh)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana–Koper motorway, take the Brezovica exit, then continue driving in the direction of Podpeči (to Podpeči you can also come from Črna vas or Ig). In Podpeči continue in the direction of Borovnica, Krim and Rakitna and continue driving for a short time along the edge of the Ljubljana Moor, then the signs for Rakitna direct us left onto a steep ascending road. The road then leads us through Preserje, where it also starts descending. After a short descent, we continue left in the direction of Krim and Rakitna, and we follow the mostly ascending road to the crossroad, where the road towards Krim branches off to the left. At the crossroad there is enough space where we can park.
B) First, drive to Cerknica, then continue driving in the direction of Begunje; when we arrive in Begunje, follow the signs for Rakitna. From Rakitna continue driving on the main road towards the settlement Preserje, and we drive along it to the crossroad, where the road towards Krim branches off to the right. At the crossroad there is enough space where we can park.

Path description:
From the starting point, we continue on the macadam road towards Krim, which quickly brings us into the forest, through which it gently ascends. After a good 10 minutes of walking, we will notice a grassy slope right above the road, and the road brings us to the turn-off of the cart track from the road to the right (the beginning of the cart track is only a few meters before the road sign 18.5 km).
We continue on the mentioned cart track, which ascends for a short time along the edge of the forest, then turns right onto the already mentioned grassy slope. Across the grassy slope we ascend transversely towards the right, and with views of part of the Karawanks and the highest peaks of the Kamnik Savinja Alps, we soon step back into the forest. In the forest, at a smaller junction, we continue on the left ascending cart track, which we follow to the place where it brings us to some kind of ridge, where there is the next junction.
This time as well we continue on the left upper cart track, and after some 10 m of further walking on it we arrive from the forest onto a panoramic gentle grassy slope. Across the meadow the cart track is a little less visible, and we continue along it to the upper part, or to the place where the cart track passes to the right side of the slope (along the cart track we arrive at Rakitna).
After we have enjoyed the views, which in fine weather reach all the way to Triglav, we continue slightly left onto the footpath that goes through a belt of bushes into the forest. The path, along which we further notice some blue-yellow blazes, mostly continues along the ridge, where we soon reach the indistinct and forest-covered summit of Reber (923 m).
We continue on the forest ridge path, which, with the exception of the initial slight descent, mostly ascends gently. When the path completely levels out, it brings us out of the forest, from where a nice view opens towards the nearby Krim and the Kamnik Savinja Alps. When the path returns to the forest, another path from Rakitna joins us from the right, and we continue the path along the cart track, which a little further turns left onto the grassy slope of Županov vrh. Some gentle walking follows, then the path moderately ascends to the nearby summit, from which a nice view opens in all directions, in fine weather also to Snežnik.
From Županov vrh we continue towards the southeast and continue the path for a short time along the panoramic ridge, then the path enters the forest and starts descending. For a few minutes we descend along the narrower cart track, then we arrive at a relatively new, wider track, which we follow to the left, and descend along it to the marked path Rakitna - Krim.
At the junction we continue slightly left and in a few steps ascend to the marked junction on the saddle.
From the saddle we continue straight in the direction of Rotovc (slightly left Krim) along the path that starts to ascend moderately through sparse forest and a belt of bushes. We follow this path, which soon brings us out of the forest, all the way to the summit of Rotovc, which we reach after 5 minutes of walking from the junction on the saddle.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2015 (January).

On the way: Reber (923m), Županov vrh (999m)