Planina Dol - Rzenik (east path)

Access to starting point:
a) From the direction of Kamnik: First we drive to Kamnik, then continue driving towards the Črnivec pass. Just a few hundred meters before the mentioned pass we notice signs for Kranjski Rak, which direct us sharply left onto a narrow and initially quite steep road. The road levels out higher up and takes us to the Volovljek pass, where immediately after the Kranjski Rak inn we turn left onto the road towards Velika planina.
We continue driving on the road, the initial part of which is now already asphalted. We follow the asphalt uphill to the next, somewhat larger intersection, where we leave the main asphalted road and continue right onto gravel in the direction of planina Dol (straight ahead the road branches off towards planina Kisovec). We follow the moderately ascending gravel road past the Ušivec parking lot, from where we continue on somewhat poorer gravel, following it at intersections in the direction of planina Dol. After a while the road begins to descend steeply, and we follow it all the way to the officially marked Dol parking lot.
Warning: Parking outside officially marked places is strictly prohibited in the area of Velika planina!

b) From the direction of the Savinjska valley: From the Savinjska valley we first drive to Luče, then continue driving towards Kamnik. When we reach the Volovljek pass (Kranjski Rak), we turn right onto the road towards Velika planina.
We continue driving on the road, the initial part of which is now already asphalted. We follow the asphalt uphill to the next, somewhat larger intersection, where we leave the main asphalted road and continue right onto gravel in the direction of planina Dol (straight ahead the road branches off towards planina Kisovec). We follow the moderately ascending gravel road past the Ušivec parking lot, from where we continue on somewhat poorer gravel, following it at intersections in the direction of planina Dol. After a while the road begins to descend steeply, and we follow it all the way to the officially marked Dol parking lot.
Warning: Parking outside officially marked places is strictly prohibited in the area of Velika planina!

Route description:
From the parking lot we continue along the gravel road, which descends almost imperceptibly towards the western part of the mountain pasture. After a few minutes of easy walking we will notice a shepherd's hut on the left side, and we continue along the gravel road for another few 10 m, to the place where on a tree we notice signs for Konj, which direct us right across the meadow (left Velika planina, straight the valley of Kamniška Bistrica - lower station of the cable car to Velika planina). The path ahead ascends moderately across the meadow, then passes into the forest, where it turns right and gradually begins to ascend more and more steeply. There follows approximately 20 minutes of steep ascent through the forest, after which the path takes us to a small viewpoint. Here the path turns left and also levels out somewhat. We continue on a moderately steep path, where from the increasingly sparse forest we soon pass into the dwarf pine zone. There follows a short ascent on a well-trodden path through the dwarf pines and the path takes us to the Rzenik mountain pasture, on the edge of which we notice a shepherd's hut.
From the hut we continue on the marked path towards Konj (slightly left Rzenik by the western path), which quickly takes us into the dwarf pines. We continue the ascent on a moderately steep path, and we follow it for only about 10 more minutes, after which we will notice on the left side a rather overgrown trail that leads to Rzenik (the start of the unmarked trail is difficult to find).
From the place where we leave the marked path, we first ascend through dwarf pines (overgrown), then continue through a zone of raspberry bushes, higher up again through dwarf pines (somewhat less overgrown). After approximately 15 minutes of pushing through the overgrown path, we step onto the ridge of Rzenik, which we follow to the left. The trail ahead runs along the edge of an occasionally exposed ridge, but unlike the initial part it is much easier to traverse, only in wet conditions greater caution is needed so as not to slip on the steep grass. Higher up the path leads us past a mighty crack, then in a few more minutes of walking takes us to the summit of Rzenik.

Along the route: Planina Rzenik (1654m)

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