Mlinše - Pleše (via Zasavska Sveta gora)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Maribor highway, take the Trojane exit, then continue driving towards Izlake and Zagorje. At the end of the settlement Izlake, turn right towards Moravče, and follow the road to the settlement Mlinše, where immediately after the sports field the road branches off to the left towards Zasavska Sveta gora. At the starting point, there are no appropriate parking spots, or they are intended for guests of the nearby local.
B) From Zasavje, first drive to Zagorje, then continue driving towards Izlake. At the intersection at the beginning of Izlake, continue left towards Moravče, and follow the road to the settlement Mlinše, where immediately after the sports field the road branches off to the left towards Zasavska Sveta gora. At the starting point, there are no appropriate parking spots, or they are intended for guests of the nearby local.

Path description:
From the village Mlinše, we head onto the asphalt road towards Zasavska Sveta gora. The road first leads past a few houses, then ascends to the neighbouring village Zabava, where at the crossroads by the chapel we continue right. We continue through the village, and the road at the end of the village turns into a cart track, which leads us across panoramic plains. Higher up, we arrive at the next village or hamlet Breznik.
Here we first cross the nearby road, then ascend across a few yards to a poorly trodden path that climbs through a meadow to the nearby slope, across which it begins to ascend transversely. A little higher, the path takes us to a cart track, which we follow to the right, and it quickly brings us to the village Ravne pri Mlinšah. After we have passed through the village and the road turns slightly to the right, a marked path from Izlake joins from the left.
Here we continue straight to the nearby crossroads at the chapel, where we also notice some mountain direction signs.
We continue straight across the road onto the marked footpath towards Zasavska Sveta gora. We continue along the cart track, which quickly enters the forest and turns right. Further on, we ascend an old cart track, which at the junctions we follow in the direction indicated by the blazes. Higher up, the cart track splits into two parts, and we choose the left one (right Zasavska Sveta gora 5 minutes). After a short traverse to the left, we step onto an asphalt road, along which we walk a few steps to the mountain hut.
From the mountain hut we continue along the road, along which we descend in a few minutes to a smaller crossroads, where we continue left towards the settlement Vidrga and Roviški vrh. After some 10 m of further walking, a marked footpath to Roviškovec branches off to the right, and we continue along the road, which descends gently to moderately. After a few minutes of descent, we arrive at a smaller crossroads, where we continue right uphill towards Pleše. Further on, we moderately ascend the asphalt road for some time, and from the right the path from the summit of Roviškovec also joins. From the road along which we continue the path, a macadam road soon branches off to the left, which we "overlook"; we walk along the asphalt only another some 10 steps, then the signs for Zagorje direct us left onto an initially narrower, higher wider cart track. The path further leads us past a meadow to a wider macadam road; this then leads us further across an extensive meadow, from which a nice view opens onto the Kamniško Savinjske Alpe. On the other side of the meadow, the road splits into two parts, and we head right following the Pleše signs. The path ahead climbs through a strip of forest, then levels out and brings us to a larger and fairly gentle grassy slope of the nearby summit Pleše. Here we walk to the other side of the hill, then before the marked path towards Marela begins to descend, we continue left along the cart track. We continue along the cart track for a short time, then on the left side we spot a metal pole (pole intended for hanging a flag) and beneath it the NOB monument.
From the monument we can continue a little further towards the north, first slightly downhill and then uphill to the northern part of the summit Pleše.

On the way: Zabava (425m), Breznik (510m), Ravne pri Mlinšah (595m), Planinski dom na Zasavski Sveti gori (822m)