Železniki - Hujska (via Kres)

Access to starting point:
A) First, we drive to Škofja Loka, then continue driving towards Železniki. When we arrive in Železniki, first at the intersection where the road towards Kropa, Dražgoše and Rudno branches off to the right, we continue straight, then a little after the Mercator store, or opposite the company Niko d.o.o., we continue right in the direction of Podlonka and Prtovča. Immediately after leaving the main road, we continue right in the direction of the forest educational trail Kres and the sports hall Železniki, beside which we then also park.
B) From Cerkno, Podbrdo or Sorica we drive to Zali Log, then continue driving towards Škofja Loka. When we arrive in Železniki we leave the main road and continue driving left in the direction of Podlonka and Prtovča. Immediately after leaving the main road, we continue right in the direction of the forest educational trail Kres and the sports hall Železniki, beside which we then also park.

Route description:
From the starting point at the sports hall Železniki we continue in the direction of the forest educational trail Kres, where first over a small bridge we cross the stream Dašnjica, then when about 100 m further we reach the other asphalt road, we continue left along it for a minute or two, then at the information board of the forest educational trail we continue sharply right (slightly right path that bypasses the summit of Kres), so that we ascend above the road. For a few minutes we ascend along the edge of the forest, and from the path nice views open up on Železniki, the path along which there are some signs of the educational trail soon enters the forest. Through the forest we moderately ascend for a few more minutes, then the path flattens and brings us to the indistinct summit of Kres, from which for some time we continue without major changes in elevation, i.e. we ascend and descend a few times. When we reach a larger meadow, the forest educational trail Kres turns sharply left and descends diagonally back to the asphalt road, while we continue straight across the meadow into the forest. On the other side of the meadow we begin to ascend along and beside the indistinct ridge of Hujska, the path leads us through dense forest. Higher the path becomes steeper (we can bypass the steep part to the right on the cart track), then when the mentioned cart track joins us from the right, it flattens somewhat. At the junction of both paths the cart track ends, and we continue straight on the moderately steep path, along which in a few minutes of further walking we reach the summit of Hujska.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in the year 2016 (July).

Along the route: Kres (572m)

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