Urbas - Potoški Stol

Access to starting point:
From the highway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Lesce and follow the road ahead in the direction of Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, we will get to a crossroad, where the road to Žirovnica and Moste branches off to the right (from the direction of Jesenice left). Only a few meters ahead in the next crossroad, we turn left to Moste (right Žirovnica). Further, we drive past a monument to fallen fighters, where the road starts ascending a hill below the railway track. On top of the slope, we turn right (at the sign Vila Karin), we continue towards Završniško jezero and Valvasorjev dom. The road then flattens and brings us to a crossroad, where the road to Valvasorjev dom branches off to the left. We go on the mentioned road (straight Koča pri izviru Završnice), that starts first gently, then steeper and steeper ascending on an occasionally quite rough road (the steepest parts are asphalted). Higher, the road brings us to a somewhat bigger crossroad, where we continue left in the direction of Potoška planina (right Doslovška planina). The road then flattens and a little further brings us to the next crossroad, where a road towards Valvasorjev dom branches off to the right, and we continue on the left lower road, which then for quite some time continues without major changes in altitude. The road then leads us past a turn-off to Ajdna and then starts ascending steeper on an occasionally quite rough road. The road then flattens again and past Potoška planina brings us to the Urbas spring, near which there are a few smaller parking spots.
From Moste to the starting point, there is approximately 10 km of driving.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we first walk to the Urbas spring, where we notice a mountain sign for mountain pasture Belščica, which directs us to an initially somewhat difficult-to-follow footpath. For the first 15 minutes of walking, the path ascends gently, then it starts to ascend steeply through the forest. Higher, the forest becomes thinner and slowly transitions into a belt of dwarf pines, and the path starts turning more and more towards the west. After a good hour of walking, we step onto grassy slopes and the path, after a few more steps, brings us to the bivouac on Belščica (emergency bivouac).
From the bivouac, we continue towards the north and already after a few steps we notice a somewhat poorly visible path, which turns sharply right (direction east). Further, we ascend along the mentioned path, which ascends transversely across occasionally somewhat steeper slopes. The path, which crosses two more pronounced gullies, then higher brings us to a marked path, which we follow to the right. Already after a few steps on the marked path, the path to Vajnež branches off to the left (20 minutes), and we continue straight on the path, which gently turns right and after a few descending steps brings us to the small valley between Vajnež and Potoški Stol (near Vajneževo sedlo). The path only crosses this small valley and then ascends steeply towards the ridge of Potoški Stol. On the ridge, the marked path turns left, and we follow it to the point where it leaves the ridge. We continue straight along the wide and gentle ridge all the way to the summit of Potoški Stol, which we reach in a few dozen steps.
From the top, we can descend a few dozen meters to the cross on Potoški Stol. In fog, we will find the cross with difficulty.
Urbas - bivouac on Belščica 1:15, bivouac on Belščica - Potoški Stol 1:00.

On the way: Bivak na Belščici (1750m), Vajneževo sedlo (1972m)

Trip can be extended to: Weinasch/Vajnež , Hochstuhl/Stol (1 h)