Tržič - Kamnek (Radetzky way)

Access to starting point:
We drive to Tržič and at the intersection before the restaurant Raj we turn left over the bridge into the old part of the town (Freedom Square). We drive along a narrow street straight to the church, which we bypass slightly to the left, continuing on the same road. Soon thereafter we see the sign "Pizzerija" and on our right a path branches off through large, old courtyard gates uphill above us. We drive past the sign "parkirišče za goste pizzerije" (parking for pizzeria guests) a few more meters to the parking lot below the castle, where we park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we head along a macadam path to the ridge a few meters away on the hill where we parked. On the ridge a nice view opens up on Tržič below us, and a few steps to the right there is a sign attached to the wall, where we can read the history of the small castle, which used to be the property of Count Radetzky (to him is dedicated Strauss's "Radetzky March", which we can hear at every New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic). For the start of our path at this viewpoint we turn left and begin to ascend along a pleasant forest path on the slope of Kamnek. A few meters further, another path joins us from the right below, which leads us to this ridge from the parking lot in front of Dvorana tržiških olimpijcev (where there is another parking option and start of the ascent).
Then we follow a well-visible and beaten path; the path is marked several times with blazes and directional arrows. After a few minutes of walking we arrive at small gardens with some garden sheds and small weekend houses, where a large blaze attached to a sign on the garden fence directs us through the middle along the wide uphill path. The second half of the path is somewhat steeper; after approximately one hour of walking along the slope we arrive at the ridge, from which there is no particularly good view because we are there, as throughout the entire path, in a sparse mixed forest. The path from the ridge onwards ascends somewhat more steeply, the last few 10 meters below the summit very steeply. Soon we reach the summit, where there is a bench and a summit register, and on a high pole the Slovenian flag waves. The view in all directions is very beautiful; we see Dobrča, Stol, Begunjščica, the entire Košuta, Dovžanova soteska, Lomska dolina, Storžič, Kriška gora and much more.


We can return along the same path, but it is even nicer to make a small detour in the direction, so that from the summit we continue the path in the direction of Pirmanc. The path first runs along the ridge and descends slightly; soon (after a few minutes) we reach a junction. The path that continues straight along the ridge leads us further to Pirmanc, Kala and Kofce; we, however, turn onto the path that branches off to the left downhill (not marked). We follow this path the whole time along the slope; several times other paths branch off from it, either to the right downhill or to the left uphill, but we always stick to the most beaten one. The path leads us the whole time along the slope, in a sparse mixed forest above the area of Tržič that the locals call "na fabriki", until quite low down it joins the path along which we previously set off for Kamnek. From there we return to the starting point, which is still about 10 minutes' walk away.

Trip can be extended to: Veliki vrh above Završnik ( 45 min) , Zavetišče na Kalu (1 h 40 min) , Robič (2 h 35 min) , Dom na Kofcah