Poljana (Završnica) - Prešernova koča na Stolu (Zabreška pot)

Access to starting point:
From highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we go to the exit Lesce and follow the road ahead in the direction of Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, we will get to a crossroad, where the road to Žirovnica and Moste branches off to the right (from the direction of Jesenice left). Only a few meters ahead in the next crossroad, we turn left to Moste (right Žirovnica). Further, we drive past a monument to fallen soldiers, where the road starts ascending on a hill below the railway track. On top of the slope, we turn right (at the sign Vila Karin), but we continue driving towards Završniško jezero and Valvasorjev dom. The road then flattens and brings us to a crossroad, where the road to Valvasorjev dom branches off to the left. Here we continue straight towards Završnica and then after 100 meters we park on a well-maintained asphalt parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return on an asphalt road to the crossroad, and from there we continue in the direction of Valvasorjev dom pod Stolom and Potoška planina. From the crossroad, for some time we walk on a scenic macadam road, and then blazes and signs for Valvasorjev dom point us to the left on a marked footpath which gently descends to the nearby stream Rečica. Over a footbridge we cross the mentioned stream and then we get to a larger meadow, through which we gently ascend slightly towards the left. On the other side of the meadow, the path goes into the forest and turns into a relatively steep cart track, on which we ascend to an indistinct saddle between the peaks Sivo rebro and Smolnik.
From here we continue on the cart track for only a short time, and then signs point us to the right on a footpath which ascends diagonally over a short rough slope. The well-maintained path then turns to the left and continues ascending diagonally over occasionally steeper slopes of the peak Smolnik. The quite wide path throughout brings us higher to a forest road, which we only cross. On the other side of the road, we continue right and continue the ascent on a poorly marked path, which higher also has some unmarked shortcuts. This path, which in the upper part because of numerous footpaths is also orientationally a little harder, we follow all the way to Valvasorjev dom pod Stolom.
From Valvasorjev dom we go right on a footpath in the direction of Stol. The path soon goes into the forest, where it slightly ascends and brings us to a smaller junction, where we continue right. The path then brings us out of the forest, where it crosses slopes below Monštranca. This gentle and partly scenic path, which a little further crosses a short strip of forest, we follow to a junction on Žirovniška planina.
We continue slightly right in the direction of »Stol - Zabreška pot« (left Stol Žirovniška pot) on an initially hard-to-follow track which soon enters the forest. There follows approximately half an hour of walking on a path which mostly crosses the southern slopes of Stol. Only a little further from the spot where from the right the path from Zabreška planina joins us, the marked path which leads to Stol starts to ascend more steeply. A little further we come out of the forest onto Stara planina, on which stands the newer "Betonska bajta". Behind the mentioned bajta the path turns slightly to the right and starts to ascend even more steeply, first through the forest and then over increasingly panoramic slopes which are partly overgrown with dwarf pines. The path then quickly brings us past the pleasant resting place "Pri Janezu" to Finžgarjeva skala (here in spring months we will notice the habitat of auriculas). The path, which continues over the increasingly panoramic grassy slope, higher turns quite to the left and occasionally starts to fade. Further ahead we already see Prešernova koča, to which we ascend after less than 30 minutes of further walking.

On the way: Valvasorjev dom pod Stolom mountain hut (1181m)

Trip can be extended to: Hochstuhl/Stol