Topole - Mengeška koča on Gobavica

Access to starting point:
A) We leave the Gorenjska motorway at the Vodice exit, then continue driving towards Kamnik, then in Vodice turn slightly right in the direction of the settlement Bukovica. Further on, we drive on the road towards Mengeš. After Koseze the settlements and hamlets end, then the road leads us through a strip of forest and a few meadows. When the meadows narrow, slightly to the left a macadam road branches off towards the sports field in Topole, to the right through a swampy meadow a footpath branches off, which leads towards Mengeška koča na Gobavici and Rašica. We park at a suitable place by the junction.
B) We drive to Mengeš, then from the main junction in the centre of Mengeš we continue driving towards Kranj. A little further from the main road we turn slightly left onto the road in the direction towards Vodice. A little after the junction over the bridge we cross the Pšata canal, then after the fields the road enters the forest, by the road there are narrower meadows. When we notice that sharply to the right a macadam road branches off, which leads towards the sports field in Topole, and on the left a footpath starts, which leads to Gobavica and Rašica, we are at the starting point of the described path. We park at a suitable place by the junction.

Path description:
On the south side of the road we notice at first a fainter footpath which leads across a shorter swampy meadow, after which it enters the forest, after some 10 metres it joins the cart track. Along the cart track we then first ascend gently, then moderately, at the junctions following the fairly rare blazes. When the cart track levels out we quickly reach a marked junction, where we continue left towards Mengeška koča (straight we reach the lower path Mengeška koča - Rašica, right leads the ridge path to Rašica and the path to Koseze and Šinkov Turn).
From the junction follows a short ascent to the forested Marin hrib (408 m), then a gradual descent to a junction where the previously mentioned lower path joins us.
We continue again towards Mengeška koča, the path then leads us along a cart track which gently ascends across the hay meadow to the nearby hayrack. At the hayrack the path turns left, ascends through a strip of forest, then along the upper edge of a panoramic meadow brings us to Mengeška koča na Gobavici.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2017 (November).

On the way: Marin hrib (408m)