Tomšičeva cesta (Jesenice) - Jelenkamen (via Šporn)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice we take the exit Lipce, where we turn right towards Jesenice. In the settlement Slovenski Javornik, at the intersection with traffic lights we turn left towards the center of the town. At the second traffic light intersection (at the gymnasium) we turn sharply right, back along Tomšičeva cesta, past the primary school on the left. After a little less than a kilometer of driving, when the road is slightly descending, we arrive near the former store on Tomšičeva cesta (today bife "Čavs bar"). About 20 meters before that structure we notice the pedestrian crossing, which we will use on the path towards Jelenkamen. We park at an appropriate place nearby (or a few 100 meters ahead, below the hill, near the railway on the large turning area).

Path description:
We cross the road on the mentioned pedestrian crossing, and continue straight uphill on a steep asphalt road which leads us past a few houses. When the road flattens and crosses the stream, we will at the right turn by the first house on the left side notice a footpath which ascends uphill towards the north. We leave the road and step on this path, which moderately ascends towards the forest. We soon run into the fenced water catchment Šporen with the year 1957, and the path (at first cart track) by the streambed of the stream brings us into the forest, where we cross one of the branches of the stream. Our path by the cart track turns slightly to the right (cart track turns left) and for the second time crosses the stream, by which it ascends uphill. Near the source of the mentioned stream, the path again turns right and soon brings us onto a flat area with a junction. Here we go left towards the north, on gentle terrain by the edge of the clearing, where we ignore the left turn-off. When the path starts to slightly ascend, it first holds a little to the left, but soon turns sharply right and continues ascending in zigzags. After some time at the top of the southeast ridge of Jelenkamen the path briefly flattens, and then continues straight uphill towards the north. A little higher (at the lying trunk) the path turns sharply left, where it first crosses a somewhat steeper slope, then brings us to a small ridge, where there is a partly open space which offers a view of the Julian Alps and one of the viewpoints on the south slope of Jelenkamen. Here our path turns right (straight is the hunting path), quite steeply uphill and after a few hairpin turns it completely flattens. Only a few meters after that we will with some attention notice the left turn-off, onto which we head. Now after a gentle descent a somewhat poorly visible flat path among some rocks leads below the steep southeast slope of Jelenkamen, where we also encounter a few cairns. Then after a gentle and short ascent our path turns a little to the right and soon joins the marked path from Ukova. Here we go sharply right, steeply on the marked path towards the summit. After a short ascent we also get help from about 10 m of steel cable. Then, when the steepness briefly eases and views start opening up, the path for the last time steeply ascends towards the summit of Jelenkamen, where there are a bench and a box with a summit logbook on one of the trees. Here the view opens towards the Ljubljana Basin, Jesenice, Karawanks, Ratitovec and Mežakla, and Julian Alps with Triglav.

On the way: Kozjak nad Slovenskim Javornikom (766m)