Planina pod Golico - Klek (via hunting cottage Muzgovca)
Starting point: Planina pod Golico (980 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 46.4624°N 14.0488°E
Path name: via hunting cottage Muzgovca
Time of walking: 2 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy pathless terrain
Difficulty of skiing: demanding
Altitude difference: 773 m
Altitude difference (by path): 790 m
Map: Karavanke - osrednji del 1:50.000
Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lipce (possible also Hrušica) and follow the road ahead in the direction of Jesenice, and there signs for Planina pod Golico point us on an ascending road (turn-off is marked and is located at health center in Jesenice). The relatively steep road soon brings us in the mentioned village, where we can in May on surrounding meadows admire blooming of daffodils. We park on one of the parking lots by the foot of the ski center Španov vrh.
Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the asphalt road which after few minutes of walking, it brings us to a marked crossroad, where we continue left downwards in the direction of Rožca (straight Golica, right Španov vrh). We continue on the road which past the church of the Holy Cross brings us to an unmarked crossroad (by the cross), where we continue right. The path ahead leads us past few houses, and then we soon notice signposts, which point us to the left on a footpath.
The path ahead ascends on quite muddy cart track, and then passes into a dense forest, where we continue on and by the cart track. In parts poorly visible path, which all the time runs through the forest, higher brings us to a forest road which we only cross. We continue the ascent on a wide cart track which at first ascends by the clearing, after that returns into the forest.
Cart track, which is becoming worse, then quickly brings us to a smaller, usually swampy clearing where it ends.
Here we will a little to the right notice already quite faded blaze, which points us on for a short time poorly visible and a little steeper footpath. The path soon brings us on a wide ridge, where it widens. We continue the ascent on the mentioned ridge, which is surrounded by grazing fence. Already after few meters of an ascent by the grazing fence, the marked path turns left downwards, and we continue straight on an unmarked path, which is gently ascending by the mentioned fence. After approximately 3 minutes of walking by the fence, we will on the left side notice at first a poorly visible footpath which after few steps of the ascent brings us on a wide, but partly already overgrown cart track. We continue the ascent on the mentioned cart track which quickly brings us to the hunting cottage Muzgovca.
Few meters before the hunting cottage, at the smaller crossing, we continue left, on still unmarked path (cart track), which is further ascending in zig-zags. Higher, the mentioned path brings us on a ridge, where it starts vanishing. We continue the ascent on the ridge and it soon ends on a wide grazing area.
We still continue in the same direction (on the ridge) and we will soon step on a poorly beaten footpath which ascends from the mountain pasture Jeseniška planina. We continue on the mentioned footpath which higher crosses the marked path Rožca - Golica and only a little after that, it brings us on the main ridge of Karawanks. Here we continue left on a panoramic path, on which in few minutes we ascend to the summit of Klek.
On the way: Lovska koča Muzgovca (1280m)
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