Planina Vetrh - Stegovnik

Access to the starting point:
a) First drive to Tržič, then continue driving towards Dovžana Gorge. Towards the end of Tržič, leave the road towards Dovžana Gorge and continue right towards Loma pod Storžič. Above Lom pod Storžič, at the right-hand serpentine, leave the main road, which leads higher towards Grahovše and Dom pod Storžič, and continue left towards Potarje. Follow the asphalt road to the crossroads below the tourist farm pr Tič, where you turn left towards mountain pasture Konjščica. Follow the macadam road, from which the road to the Pinč farm soon branches off to the left. Here go right along the upper road, which becomes visibly worse, and follow it for some time to the next crossroads. From the crossroads continue straight on the lower road (right up mountain pasture Konjščica), which crosses the Vetrnik stream a little further on. At the next crossroads, go left, and after 50 metres park in the marked parking area at the edge of mountain pasture Vetrh. From the junction at the Lepenka factory in Tržič to the starting point is about 11 km, of which 6 km are macadam.
b) a) First drive to Tržič, then continue to Dovžana Gorge. Continue through Dovžanovo gorge, Dolina, to Jelendol, where at the triangular crossroads continue on the right road towards Medvodje. A few kilometres further on, the road to mountain pasture Zala potok branches off to the left, and we continue along Tržiška Bistrica for some time, more precisely to the first carriageway to the right, which crosses the Tržiška Bistrica River via a bridge. After the bridge, we start climbing on a worse macadam road, which is often in a rather bad condition in some parts. At the crossroads, continue straight ahead, and then, when the road is level, you will quickly reach a marked parking area on the outskirts of mountain pasture Vetrh, where you will park. From the junction at the Lepenka factory in Tržič to the starting point is about 12. 5 km, of which 3. 7 km is very bad macadam road, and there is some more macadam.

Path description:
On the east side of the parking lot, cart track is seen climbing through the forest to a nearby forest road, which is followed to the left. The road quickly leads to a serpentine on the right, which offers a beautiful view towards Košuta, Plešivec and the surrounding mountains. The path then passes into a fairly dense forest, through which it climbs up the western slopes of Pečice (1421 m) and later Maljevec (1502 m). It does not take long to walk up the slopes of Maljevec, as the road leads into the valley of the Vetrnik stream. Crossing a bridge, the road quickly crosses over to the left bank of the stream and then climbs directly along the stream for a few minutes. When the road crosses the stream once more (this time without a bridge), the road turns off to the right at cart track, which leads to the Zdravc hut, and we continue along the road. A little further on, the road forks again, and we take the road slightly to the left, along which there are signs for mountain pasture Javornik (to the right, hut pr Zdravc, Bela peč. . . ). The forest thins out further, and the road leads us just a little further to a marked crossroads, where we are joined on the right by a marked path from the Doma pod Storžičem.
Leave the road here and continue in the direction of Stegovnik, following the path that crosses the meadow. On the other side of the meadow, the path enters the forest and continues along cart track, which descends gently for the most part. After a while, cart track becomes a footpath, partly ascending and partly descending. After a while, the path, which offers only a few views (mainly of the Košuta ridge), leads to a pleasant bench. The path continues through the forest, which is occasionally interrupted by a clearing overgrown with tall grass. A little further on, we reach a small crossroads where the path from Jezersko (and the eastern path from Doma pod Storžičem) joins us from the right. Just after the crossroads, the slope becomes quite steep, and the path leads us to the first jeklenice, with the help of which we enter the window in Stegovnik. In the middle of the window, a passage opens to the left towards another window, which is reached by a short ladder, and from there you continue to the right through a smaller window, after which you reach the other side of the ridge. On the other side of the window, a short rope descends to the slope, which then climbs quite steeply. The steep path continues below the cliffs (danger of falling rocks), and then gradually reaches the main ridge of Stegovnik. Here the path turns to the left and, with increasingly beautiful views, ascends to the south-western headland, from which there is a short, undistinguished descent along a sometimes narrow ridge. The path continues along a very scenic and in some places precipitous ridge, which takes a few minutes of gentle ascent to reach the 1692 m summit.

On the way: Okno v Stegovniku (1460m)

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