Zagrad - Velika Plešivica (via Mala Plešivica)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana–Koper highway, take the Kozina exit and follow the road ahead in the direction of Reka. In the village of Obrov, turn right in the direction of the village of Golac, from which we continue driving towards the hamlet of Zagrad. In Zagrad (not at the crossroads 30 m before), continue right (left Ostrič) and then after a few meters left onto the upper road by which there is a sign "forest road, use at your own risk" (the right road joins the road which leads towards Velika vrata). Follow this initially very rough road to a larger clearing, which is the starting point for our tour (on the clearing the road changes into a cart track).

Path description:
From the starting point, we head across the clearing, ascending gently to its upper part. Here on the right side we notice a cart track (there are several cart tracks, but they all join higher up), which goes into the forest and starts moderately ascending on the left side of a larger sinkhole. After approximately 15 minutes of ascent on the cart track, we come to a marked path which leads from Razsušica towards Plešivica.
We follow the marked path to the right (left Razsušica, Medvižica and Ostrič) and on it we at first moderately ascend through dense forest. The occasionally poorly visible path then starts to descend more steeply and after a few minutes of descent brings us to the place where an unmarked cart track joins us from the valley. We continue in the direction of Slavnik (inscription on the rock) on the path which with a few shorter ascents and descents brings us to the end of the forest road which comes from the saddle Velika vrata).
We quickly leave the mentioned road, as the blazes direct us left onto a marked cart track which ascends through a belt of forest. After several tens of meters of ascent, the cart track turns left, but we continue straight on a somewhat poorly visible but marked path, which ascends through increasingly sparse forest. The forest is quickly replaced by shrubbery (mainly junipers) and the path quickly brings us to the summit of Mala Plešivica amid ever finer views.
From the summit of Mala Plešivica we continue on the marked path, which starts descending towards the north. During the descent, which runs partly over a bare slope, we can see the bare summit of Velika Plešivica ahead and Slavnik to its left. The path then soon brings us past the water pipe to a cart track, on which we reach the forest road in a few minutes of descent. Down this road we descend to the saddle Velika vrata, where we continue right and then immediately left.
Just a few steps after leaving the road, the cart track brings us to a grazing area where horses graze. Here the blazes direct us over the pasture fence onto a grassy slope, up which we then ascend on an initially very poorly visible path. During the ascent over the grazing area, a few blazes assist us, though they are quite sparse in the lower part. Higher up the path becomes more distinct and the blazes more frequent. We then follow this increasingly scenic path to the summit of Velika Plešivica.
Zagrad - Mala Plešivica 1:15, Mala Plešivica - Velika Plešivica 45 minutes.

On the way: Mala Plešivica (953m), Velika vrata (760m)