Apno - Ambrož pod Krvavcem (via Prgozdnik)
Starting point: Apno (655 m)
Lat/Lon: | 46,258°N 14,5326°E |
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Name of path: via Prgozdnik
Time of walking: 1 h 35 min
Difficulty: easy unmarked way
Altitude difference: 430 m
Altitude difference po putu: 465 m
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Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): crampons
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Access to the starting point:
a) From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Vodice exit, then follow the signs for the Krvavec ski resort. Continue through Vodice, Spodnji Brnik, Zgornji Brnik, Cerklje na Gorenjskem to the settlement Grad, where you turn right in the direction of Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Šenturška Gora. There is a steep climb, and when the road levels off, continue straight on towards Šenturška Gora (Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Stiška vas on the left). There is a drive through Ravne, and then you arrive at Apno, where the route described above starts at the Frantar farm. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.
b) From the motorway Jesenice - Ljubljana, take the Brnik exit, then follow the signs for the Krvavec ski resort. Continue past the airport and through Spodnji Brnik, Zgornji Brnik, Cerklje na Gorenjskem and the village of Grad, where you turn right towards Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Šenturška Gora. There is a steep climb, and when the road levels off, continue straight on towards Šenturška Gora (Ambrož pod Krvavcem and Stiška vas on the left). There is a drive through Ravne, and then you arrive at Apno, where the route described above starts at the Frantar farm. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.
c) First drive to Kamnik, then head towards Tunjiceam. From Tunjice follow the road to Sidraž, from Sidraž to Šenturška Gora, and from Šenturška Gora continue straight on to the neighbouring settlement of Apno, where the described route starts at the Frantar farm. There are no parking spaces at the starting point.
Path description:
With a little effort, you will see signs for Krvavec and Ambrož pod Krvavcem near the farm, which will direct you to a side road that branches off the main road to the north. The path ahead takes you past a few houses, a chapel, and at the end of the settlement you reach an ecological island, at which you continue left to a nearby sign.
Go around the sign on the right, and the cart track turns into a forest. In the forest, first go straight ahead and then right in the direction of Martin's path. There is a few minutes' cross-climb to the right, where you walk along a forest track, then reach a fork in the track, and continue slightly right, again in the direction of Martin's path. Higher up, the track has more forks, and we follow the better-beaten cart track, or the one with the signs for Martin's Way (some of the forks are not marked, so orientation is quite difficult). We then follow the forest track, with its many forks, all the way to the registration box at Prgozdnik.
From the registration box, continue left (right down Šenturška Gora) and climb gently for the first 10 steps, then follow cart track down to the nearby dirt road, which you follow to the right. There is some more downhill to the farm pr Duvar, where a marked path joins from the right.
Continue cross-wise to the left, and at the nearby houses the road ends, and after them follow cart track, which climbs cross-wise over a view hayfield. When the track turns right, leave it and continue a little further to the right on a waymarked path which begins to climb steeply up a grassy slope. The path then climbs up a grassy slope with a view and slowly turns slightly to the right, so that the cross-climb reaches the Church of St Ambrose and the Tourist Farm pr Ambružarju.
Apno - Prgozdnik 1:10, Prgozdnik - St. Ambrose 0:25.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2019 (April).
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