Planina Dol - Rzenik (west 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 see 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 upwards to the next, somewhat larger intersection, where we leave the main asphalted road and continue right onto the gravel road towards 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 a somewhat poorer gravel road, following it at intersections towards planina Dol. After some time the road starts 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 Savinjska dolina: From Savinjska dolina 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 upwards to the next, somewhat larger intersection, where we leave the main asphalted road and continue right onto the gravel road towards 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 a somewhat poorer gravel road, following it at intersections towards planina Dol. After some time the road starts 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 see signs for Konj, which direct us right across the meadow (left Velika planina, straight the valley of Kamniška Bistrice - 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. This is followed by 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 a belt of dwarf pines. This is followed by 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.
At the hut we leave the marked path that leads to Konj and turn slightly left and walk to the western part of the partly overgrown mountain pasture. Here among the dwarf pines we will notice a poorly trodden path that leads us into a dense belt of dwarf pines, through which runs a path that is cut but overgrown with tall grass. The moderately steep path gradually turns more and more to the left, then, when it reaches the ridge, turns right and after a few more minutes of walking takes us to the grassy summit.

Along the route: Planina Rzenik (1654m)

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