Podmeja - Črni vrh (Čemšeniška planina)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Ljubljana - Celje highway, we take the Šempeter exit and continue driving towards Prebold and later Trbovlje. We then follow the serpentine road to the Podmeja pass, where we park on the parking lot near the hunting lodge.
B) From Zasavje, we first drive to Trbovlje and then continue driving towards Prebold. When we arrive at the Podmeja pass, we park on the parking lot near the hunting lodge.

Path description:
From the Podmeja pass, we head west on a poor macadam road in the direction of Sveta planina. After a few tens of steps, we leave the road and continue on a cart track that gently ascends through the forest. Higher up, the cart track flattens completely and gradually transitions from an indistinct ridge to the shady side. Here, the marked cart track turns sharply right (poorly marked) and begins to descend more noticeably. At the end of the descent, we step onto a wide cart track, along which we walk a few steps to the asphalt road, which we follow to the right. Further on, with a view of Kum and ascending past a few houses, we climb to a marked junction, where we continue in the direction of "Sveta planina - pešpot" (right: Sveta planina access by car).
Further, we ascend for quite some time along a gently sloping macadam road, then arrive at a small hamlet, where we continue sharply right and then immediately behind the house left onto an ascending cart track. The cart track first leads across grassy meadows, higher up even descends slightly for a short time, then takes us into dense forest, where it begins to ascend more steeply. Higher, the path turns left and after a few tens of steps of further walking brings us to a sign by which stands a lonely house. Behind the house, the path widens again and past a trough with water brings us to expansive grassy slopes north of Sveta planina.
Here, the path to Javor branches off to the right, while we continue along the road to the nearby junction. At the junction, we continue right (left: Sveta planina 5 minutes) and proceed along the road that descends transversely across an initially panoramic slope. The road then enters the forest and brings us to a junction, where we continue right in the direction of Planinski dom Vrhe. Further on, we cross the slopes of peak Javor on the left side, then arrive at a junction in the middle of which stands the NOB monument. Here we continue straight and past the church of St. Lenart walk in a few minutes to Planinski dom Vrhe.
From Planinski dom Vrhe, we head onto a poorer road in the direction of Čemšeniška planina. We walk along the road for a short time, then turn right onto a steeper cart track that gradually enters the forest. Higher up, we also leave the wide cart track, as the signs for Čemšeniška planina direct us slightly right onto a path that almost completely flattens. A few minutes of traversing follow, then the path turns slightly right and brings us out of the forest onto a panoramic slope. Here the path turns left and begins descending across a moderately steep grassy slope. Lower down, we arrive at the Gunet homestead, where we also step onto the road.
When we step onto the road, we continue right and after a few steps arrive at the next junction.
Here we continue straight and proceed along the road that bypasses Gunetova glava (926 m) on the left side. On the other side of the mentioned peak, we reach a panoramic saddle; the road turns left here, but we follow it only another 100 m, then the signs for Čemšeniška planina direct us sharply right onto a cart track that first crosses a strip of forest, then brings us transversely onto a panoramic slope from which a nice view opens towards Krvavica. Here, the cart track along which we continue ascending for some time turns left, then gradually turns into a somewhat steeper footpath. Higher up, the footpath splits into two parts; we can choose whether to continue on the quite steep and poorly maintained marked hiking path or on the somewhat less steep parallel "Lojzova pot", which is newly built and marked with light blue dots. Higher up, both paths merge, the path gradually flattens and brings us to the edge of a steep ridge. We continue along the right, gentler side of the ridge, which then flattens and descends to the junction at the logbook box.
Here we continue straight (right downhill: Vransko) and then at the next junction, located just a few steps further right (straight downhill: Koča na Čemšeniški planini). The path ahead leads past the site where the old hut stood and past the amateur radio operators' hut. The summit, which we reach without difficulty, is located just a few steps above the mentioned amateur radio operators' hut.

On the way: Sveta planina / Partizanski vrh (1011m), Planinski dom Vrhe (887m)

Trip can be extended to: Koča na Čemšeniški planini ( 15 min)