Zidani Most - Sveta Marija (Ključevica)

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 the crossing of 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. When a little after the turn-off for Širje the road first crosses the railway track, immediately after it a macadam road branches off to the left, along which the described path begins.

Route description:
Near the passage across the railway track we notice signs for Kum, which direct us to Cicka (Cicka is a manual cableway with the help of which we arrive on the other side of the river Sava). When we arrive on the other side of Sava we first step out of 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, then only a little further we again cross the stream, this time without a bridge. When a little higher we again cross the streamlet, we step onto one of the larger Slovenian islets, as higher up the stream splits into two parts and thus flows on both sides of the islet (in dry days one part of the streamlet dries up, so then there is no island). We walk on the islet for a few minutes, then we step off it and continue for some time to the left of the stream. A steep ascent follows on a steep slope, which leads us steeply above the stream. When we ascend transversely across the mentioned slope, where especially when wet greater caution is needed so as not to slip, we enter the less steep Škratova dolina. Further on the path leads us past an old mill, then we cross the streamlet 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. An ascent follows along the road, which leads us through Škratova dolina, most of the time ascending through the forest. Higher the forest ends and a moderately steep path brings us past the abandoned farm to the asphalt road, where we join the path from Radeče.
We follow the road to the right, from it soon a path to Nebeška gora branches off to the left. When after a further short ascent we reach the road junction, we continue sharply to the right (straight the old path, which leads under the canopy of the nearby homestead) in the direction of Kum. From the junction we walk along the road for a few more minutes, then the signs for Kum direct us left onto a footpath, along which we continue the ascent. Some junctions follow, where we follow the blazes, then we step onto a macadam road, which we follow to the left. After a short ascent along the road we arrive at some kind of clearing, where we continue to the right (left Kum) in the direction of sv. Marija and the parish house, which we bypass on the right side. From the parish house approximately 5 minutes of ascent follow on a well-followable but unmarked path.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2016 (March).

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