Obrati Javornik (Slovenski Javornik) - Strana

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Lipce (Jesenice east), where we turn right towards Jesenice. At the first traffic-light intersection (settlement Slovenski Javornik) we turn right (direction Lj.) towards Koroška Bela. At the next intersection with traffic lights we turn left, and soon thereafter once again left towards Javorniški Rovt. After a good 20 meters of additional driving, the main road turns right, and we continue straight over the bridge of the Javornik stream, and immediately thereafter we turn left onto a large macadam parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return over the bridge of the Javornik stream to the first house on the right side of the road. Opposite it (on the left) stand two houses between which there is a narrow macadam road. Here we cross the asphalt road and head onto the latter. Already after a few steps, the road ascends, and a little higher it also gets an asphalt surface. The steepness quickly starts to ease, and the road that leads past a few houses soon levels out. Here a view opens up to the settlement Koroška Bela, and we continue for a short time longer along this gentle and scenic road past a few houses on the left. Soon after the last one in the row (Sončna pot 4), on the left we notice a path that ascends the forested slope of the hill. Here we leave the road and continue on this path, which takes us uphill and at the same time gently turns first to the right, and higher up, following the hill's slope, gently to the left. The path soon brings us near the Recreation Center Kres and the road that leads there from the village. Before we descend to the latter along the slope, at the path fork we continue straight ahead, or slightly left, onto a cart track located just a few meters higher on our slope. Once on the cart track we continue left, slightly uphill. Soon after, as the cart track starts to descend and turn right, on the right side with some attention we encounter a path that steeply ascends the eastern slope of the hill. We leave the cart track and continue on this path, which first climbs in a few switchbacks toward the summit of Strana. When somewhat higher the steepness eases, we come to a bench, after which the pleasant and partly scenic path climbs a bit more steeply for the last time toward the summit of the 711-meter-high hill Strana.