Ukova (Jesenice) - Mirca (via Pekova plan'ca)

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the Lipce exit (Jesenice east), where we turn right towards Jesenice. At the first intersection with traffic lights at Slovenski Javornik, we turn left towards the center of the town. In the second traffic-light intersection (at the high school), we turn sharply right back onto Tomšičeva cesta, past the primary school on the left. Behind the school we drive past the pedestrian crossing and immediately turn into the first (narrower) street on the left. When we ascend it for a few 10 meters, on the right we see the marked parking lot - our starting point.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road uphill. After a few 10 meters on the left we notice the summer swimming area Ukova, and on the right the road which branches off uphill towards the north into the forest.
We head onto it and follow it for a short time, i.e. to the right turn, in front of which on the same side there is a fenced water catchment. On the other - left - side we step onto the path which cuts the double turn of the road we left. Here we also encounter the first blaze. Quite quickly we cross the road again and step onto the path which begins to ascend towards the north. Then, when it a little higher turns left, it joins a cart track, where we encounter the signpost "Pristava Jelenkamen". We cross the cart track and continue along the left side of the signpost, on a short logging trail uphill towards the west. Here on the trees we notice the first blazes (path through the seven hollows), which we do not follow, but instead cross the marked path and the logging trail which ascend slightly to the right, while we climb the forest slope on the left side of the logging trail. From here onwards along our path on the trunks of trees we will notice a large number of marks (white lines), of which there are quite a few all over the hillside, so we do not let ourselves be confused by them. We continue in a steeper uphill on the path, which a little higher turns left and brings us to flatter terrain. Here the path fades, but we immediately head right through the forest uphill, where higher up, after a few minutes' ascent, we encounter a logging trail. We head right and walk along the logging trail for a short time, to its junction at the beginning of the mostly spruce forest section, where we continue left. The terrain flattens, and among the spruces we soon reach the remains of a former bark hut (so-called "kožar'ce"; currently covered with blue polyvinyl). This partly grassy plain from the south side in the middle of the forest is called "Pekova plan'ca" by the locals. From the remains of the hut we continue left towards the south to the edge of the slope, from where we can partly see into the valley and towards Mežakla. Here we turn right and continue towards the northwest along a pleasant path at the edge of the slope. Soon a path from the valley joins us from the left, but we continue straight. Then the path through the forest arcs slightly right and a little higher brings us to a somewhat steeper ascent, where it still more or less follows the edge of the southwest slope of the hill. Higher up, on the grass-covered part, some views open towards the Julians with Triglav, and along the path we also encounter an improvised bench where we can rest. Only a little higher the path moves away from the edge, turns slightly right, and briefly crosses the southeast slope towards the north. Before it brings us to the eastern, shadier slope, the path turns almost perpendicularly left towards the summit (straight or slightly left - a barely noticeable transverse path on the steep eastern slope). A little higher the path brings us again to the southwest edge of the hill, where some views open towards the valley and Mežakla on the left, and a few meters off the path also to Golica, Krvavka and Črni vrh on the right. After a few minutes of moderate ascent along the path at the edge, it brings us to the summit of Mirca, where we encounter a cairn. A partial view into the valley and towards the Ljubljana Basin can be enjoyed approx. 20 m before the goal, near the place where by the steep edge on the left grows a somewhat larger beech. Just a few meters left of this one and just as much lower, on the steep slope, a view into the Ljubljana Basin offers itself to us.