Zalog - Tolsti vrh

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana-Jesenice motorway, take the Kranj west exit and continue along the road towards Golnik. Shortly after the village of Tenetiše, we will notice signs for the village of Goriče, directing us right onto a local road. A little further on, we reach the next junction, where we continue right towards the villages of Trstenik and Preddvor. However, we do not follow this road for long, as after just a few metres we will notice a sign reading Zalog, directing us left onto an ascending road, which we follow to the village. In the middle of the village, just before the church, we will notice a road branching off to the right from the main road. Turn onto this road, beside which we soon spot the markings. Follow this road for another approximately 1 km, then park at one of the parking areas along the road.

Route description:
From the starting point we continue along the road where we parked; it becomes progressively worse and leads us higher to the NOB monument, where we leave it and continue the ascent right along an ascending cart track. At the spot where the cart track along which we are ascending turns left, we will notice a small path on the right that begins to ascend more steeply through the forest (the start is unmarked).
The path, along which we spot occasional markings, then takes us past a small chapel to a poorly marked junction beside which, on a scenic rise, there is a pleasant bench.
We continue slightly left towards Mala Poljana (the direction sign is a little further ahead from the junction) along a path that brings us, after a few more steps, into a forest-covered valley. The increasingly faint path ascends further through this valley, which becomes narrower and gradually turns into a gully. We continue ascending along the barely visible path between two steep slopes. The path, mostly covered with leaves and exposed to falling rocks in places, leads us higher to an initially quite eroded cart track, along which we exit the forest in a few minutes onto the lower part of Mala Poljana. The cart track along which we continue the ascent takes us, after a few more minutes of walking, to the Lovska koča na Mali Poljani.
From Mala Poljana, where paths from Velika Poljana and Dom pod Storžičem join, we continue left towards Tolsti vrh along a path that traverses up to the western edge of the pastureland. Higher up the path enters the forest, continuing (except for a few small clearings) until we reach the ridge, where the path from Gozd joins us.
We continue right along the ascending path, which leads us through sparse, mostly spruce forest to the summit barren slope of Tolsti vrh. We follow this increasingly panoramic path, which ascends relatively steeply along the southern ridge, all the way to the top of this scenic peak.

Starting point - Gmajna 0:45, Gmajna - Mala Poljana 1:20, Mala Poljana - junction below Tolsti vrh 0:40, junction below Tolsti vrh - Tolsti vrh 0:20.

Along the route: Mala Poljana (634m), Gmajna (840m), Mala Poljana (1325m), Razpotje pod Tolstim vrhom (1576m)

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