Trpčane - Koča na Kozleku

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Koper motorway we take the Postojna exit and continue on the road towards Rijeka and Ilirska Bistrica. At the end of Ilirska Bistrica we turn left towards the villages Vrbovo, Jablanica and Trpčane. We continue past the villages Jasen, Vrbovo, Vrbica and Jablanica to the village Trpčane, where at the inn in the village we turn left in the direction of Kozlek. We park at one of the parking lots in the village. We do not park in the courtyard.

Route description:
From the parking lot we continue through the village upwards to the place where the markings direct us onto the cart track. The cart track then leads us past the pasture fence where wild boars are raised. The path continues gently ascending across the vast grassy slopes after which we reach the foot of Kozjek. We continue on the marked cart track, which gradually takes us into the forest. We then leave the often quite muddy cart track as the markings direct us onto the path that ascends more steeply. The moderately steep path then takes us higher to the next cart track, which soon has a junction where we continue right in the direction of Kozlek. The cart track then in moderate ascent crosses the slopes towards the east and higher turns left onto an indistinct saddle, where there is the next junction. We continue left into the forest in the direction of Kozlek. The path, which gradually becomes steeper, takes us after another 15 minutes of walking to the summit of Kozlek, from which only a short descent follows to the hut.

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