Zidani Most - Nebeška gora (western path)

Access to starting point:
A) From Litija or Zagorje ob Savi we drive to Hrastnik, and from there we continue driving in the direction of Zidani Most. After the settlement Suhadol the road passes to the right side of the railway, and when a little further it again crosses the track, already after the ramp but still before crossing the track, a macadam road branches off to the right, along which the described path begins.
B) From Rimske Toplice or Radeče we drive to Zidani Most, from there we continue driving towards Hrastnik. A little after the turn-off for Širje, the road crosses the railway track for the first time, and immediately after it a macadam road branches off to the left, along which the described path begins.

Path description:
Near the passage across the railway track we notice signs for Kum, which point us to Cicka (Cicka is a manual cableway with the help of which we get to the other side of the river Sava). When we get to the other side of Sava we first step out from Cicka, then we continue in the direction of the signs for Kum. Only a little after Cicka the path leads us past the farm Trbežnik, which we bypass on the right side. Above the farm over a small bridge we cross the stream Suhi graben, after that only a little further we again cross the stream, this time without the bridge. When a little higher we again cross the stream, we step on one of the larger Slovenian islets, because higher the stream splits into two parts and so runs on both sides of the islet (in dry days one part of the stream dries up, so then it isn't an island). We walk for a few minutes on the islet, then we leave it and for some time continue left of the stream. There follows a steep ascent up a steep slope, which leads us steeply above the stream. When we ascend diagonally across the mentioned slope, where mainly in wet conditions more caution is needed so that we don't slip, we step into the less steep Škratova dolina. Further on, the path leads us past an old mill, and then we cross the stream a few more times. A little further the path leads us also past several smaller springs, above them we soon reach a poor macadam road. There follows an ascent along the road, which leads us through Škratova dolina, most of the time ascending through the forest. Higher up the forest ends, and a moderately steep path leads us past the abandoned farm to an asphalt road, where we join the path Radeče - Kum. We follow the road to the right towards Kum, and at the next junction we go left onto a macadam road towards Nebeška gora (straight on the asphalt road to Kum). The path ahead leads us through a partly grassy valley, where we pass by some holiday cottages, then a path from Kum joins from the right, but we continue straight to the next nearby junction, from which we go left onto a poorer macadam road with signs for Nebeška gora. For a short time we ascend along the mentioned road, then we turn left onto a cart track that begins to climb more steeply, and higher up it has several junctions where we follow the blazes. After some time, the occasionally overgrown cart track turns into a footpath, along which we continue through the forest to the top of Nebeška gora.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in March 2016 and June 2024.