Dražgoše (Jelenšče) - Planina Kališnik

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive to Železniki, then continue to Dražgoše. Follow the main road through Dražgoše to the part of the village called Na Pečeh, where you turn slightly left onto a side road in the direction of Bičkova skala, Dražgoška gora and the hamlet of Jelenšče. Above the hamlet of Jelenšče, continue along the forest road, but only as far as the first crossroads, where you can park at a suitable place by the mountain signs.
b) Drive to Kranj, then follow the signs for Besnica (the turnoff from the old road Ljubljana - Kranj is before the bridge over the Sava River, or after the bridge if you are coming from the direction of Kranj). Continue through Spodnja, Zgornja Besnica and Njivica. A little further on, you arrive in Nemilje, and after this settlement the road starts to climb steeply. When you reach Podblica, follow the main road, and above Podblica you will reach the main road Kropa - Dražgoše, which you follow to the left (if the bend is too sharp, there is a turning point a few 10 metres to the right). Continue past the Church of St. Jederti, and then you will reach Dražgoše, where you will first reach a crossroads where the road to Sv. Križ turns off to the left. Here you continue along the main road and then arrive in the centre of Dražgoše, where, at the area called Na Pečeh, you take a sharp right onto a side road in the direction of Bičkova skala, Dražgoška gora and the hamlet of Jelenšče (the signs are from the opposite direction, so you can quickly miss them). Above the hamlet of Jelenšče, continue along the forest road, but only to the first crossroads, where you can park at the appropriate place next to the mountain signs.
c) Drive to Kropa, then continue towards Dražgoše and Železniki. When you arrive in Dražgoše, in the centre of Dražgoše, in the area called Na Pečeh, take a sharp right onto a side road in the direction of Bičkova skala, Dražgoška gora and the hamlet of Jelenšče (the signs are from the opposite direction, so you can quickly miss them). Above the hamlet of Jelenšče, continue along the forest road, but only to the first crossroads, where you can park at the appropriate place next to the mountain signs.

Path description:
From the starting point, continue left towards mountain pasture Kališe, Vodice mountain pasture and Dražgoška gora (Bičkova skala on the right), where the path leads along cart track, which ascends transversely to the left. The route mostly passes through the forest, but occasionally we get some views of Ratitovec, Blegoš and the valley, where we can see the Rudno ski resort. When the slope becomes slightly flatter, we reach a crossroads, where we are joined on the left by a path marked with Knafelč's markings and starting in Dražgoše in the Na Pečeh area.
Here continue right in the direction of mountain pasture Kališe and Vodice (straight ahead Dražgoška gora for 5 minutes), following the path which climbs a little more, a little further on reaches the edge of the plateau Jelovica, where it lays down and a little further on joins cart track (here it joins the path leading past the viewpoint Dražgoška gora), which is followed slightly to the right. Cart track soon leads to a forest road where there is a marked crossroads.
The left road continues in the direction of Partizanski vrh, the marked path to Vodiška mountain pasture continues to the right, and the road can also be followed back to Dražgoše, while we continue slightly to the left, on the footpath in the direction of mountain pasture Kališnik. From the point where we leave the road, we start to descend gently through the forest, the path becomes flatter lower down, and then quickly leads us to the abandoned mountain pasture.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (January).

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Partizanski dom na Vodiški planini (1 h 30 min)

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