Završniško jezero - Smokuški vrh (via Brezniške peči)

Access to starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit, where at the roundabout turn onto the old road towards Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, drive past the junction where the road to Žirovnica branches off to the right. After crossing the Završnica viaduct, notice the turn-off on the right-hand side onto which you turn (sharp right). Immediately encounter a small junction where you go left, at the next one (after approx. 50 m) right, towards Završnica. After a short descent the road rises slightly for a while, then levels out and leads to the place where a gravel road branches off to the left towards Valvasorjev dom. A little further on, on the right notice a large parking lot located at the beginning of the artificial Završnica lake. This is our starting point.

Route description:
From the parking lot head across the concrete bridge spanning the lake. On the other side, notice to the right a forked path leading into the forest. Take the left (upper) one, by which you ascend towards the top of the ridge. The path soon disappears, but head somewhat left towards the top, where eventually you come upon a fairly wide path leading right towards the ridge top. Upon reaching it, a view opens to the other side, where Žirovnica and Moste are located, from where the path also approaches from the south side. Turn left (towards the east) along a pleasant, well-trodden trail on the ridge towards Mali Vrh. Soon a view opens back towards Jesenice to the west, while on the left in the valley you can partially observe the lake in Završnica.
At the signposts continue straight towards Gosjak (right to Sveti Lovrenc). Soon the path descends slightly from the top of Mali Vrh and then levels off for a while. On the right edge of the ridge, beautiful viewpoints occasionally beckon. On the left side of one of them observe interesting cliffs (Peči), past which the path leads on the right side further along the ridge towards the next peak Gosjak. Before ascending to it, come across a landmark (cross) and bench on the left. Here a path from the valley crosses ours, but continue straight along the ridge, where you encounter rocks over which you scramble somewhat and thus first on the left and then on the right side of the ridge climb to the top of Gosjak, where for the first time you see Smokuški vrh somewhat closer. Later on the right notice another viewpoint with a bench located above Doslovče, somewhat further on the left a small hut and then a water reservoir (here a wider path from Doslovče crosses Gosjak). Continue the path steeply uphill to the right of the reservoir, where soon you again encounter rocks over which you partly clamber while ascending the so-called Golovec. You are at the narrowest part of the ridge. The steepness of most of the rocky ridge during the ascent of Golovec eases only 2-3 times slightly, the demanding scenic path finally climbs steeply one last time towards Smokuški Vrh, where first come to a nice bench with a logbook, after a further 15 min of walking where the ridge already widens, then to the trail's endpoint - a scenic point with "benches" on the summit position of the ridge.
During ascent and descent from Gosjak and Golovec, in wet conditions there is a great risk of slipping!

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