Tone Čufar square (Jesenice) - Waterfall below Kalvarija

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana–Jesenice highway, take the Lipce exit, where we turn right towards Jesenice. In the settlement Slovenski Javornik, at the junction with traffic lights, we turn left towards the town centre. At the second traffic-light junction (by the gymnasium), we turn sharply right, back, where we drive along Tomšičeva cesta, past the primary school on the left. A smaller junction follows, where we turn right and drive downhill, immediately after which we turn right again onto the large parking lot situated behind the Tone Čufar Theatre.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we return back along the road to the junction near the primary school on the left, where we turn right and continue along Tomšičeva cesta towards the east. Soon we reach a bus stop, where we must cross the road at the end of it. On the other side of the road, we encounter a roadside embankment with a passage containing stairs. On these we ascend into the settlement, where past a few houses we continue straight uphill towards the forest. A little higher we step onto the grass, where there is an overgrown path into the forest. This leads us past an old water intake that resembles a shelter into the forest, where we encounter a somewhat larger fenced water intake. Past it we continue to the right, and soon we encounter a transverse path, onto which we step and head right (left path to Kalvarija). The path descends and brings us in a few steps to the bed of the torrent stream Dole. Here we leave it and continue left along the often dry bed of the stream, uphill towards the north. After a short ascent, walking in and along the bed brings us first to a smaller waterfall called "stražar", which we easily climb over on the right (left bank), and continue uphill on increasingly difficult terrain along the stream bed. Somewhat higher we encounter the middle, slightly larger (approx. 8 m) waterfall, to the foot of which we can ascend with some effort even without special equipment. If we want to continue the ascent to view the upper, highest waterfall, besides experience we will need at least a good ice axe for advancing on steep terrain, and a rope for the case of descending in the same direction. To continue, we therefore head to the slope of steep grass and partly rocks on our right. A little higher, above the middle waterfall, we turn slightly left and ascend over a steep ridge to the other side (we will have to dig footholds for ourselves), to the slope of the left (same) bank of the stream, or the small valley below the upper waterfall. Then, with some caution, we descend into the mentioned small valley below the highest waterfall. Here the terrain is mostly loose, broken and due to the consequences of sleet quite covered with fallen trees. If we continue along the slope, higher up an obstacle awaits in the form of increasing steepness, which we cannot overcome without the mentioned equipment and experience. In wet conditions across the entire waterfall area, there is a great risk of slipping!

On the way: Kalvarija (784m)