Dol - Ruš (on southwest ridge)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Kranj - East and follow the road in the direction of Jezersko, but only as far as the Kanonir Inn, where you turn left. Continue on the asphalted road, but only until the crossroads about 2 km away, where the road to Stegovnik branches off to the right. Take this road and follow it for a few 100 m to a ramp, where you park in a small parking lot.

Path description:
From the barrier, follow the forest road, which after about 20 minutes leads to a crossroads. Turn right and follow the road to a large grassy clearing where the house stands. Here, go straight on to the footpath after the Stegovnik markings (left Stegovnik out of the window, unmarked path). The path climbs slightly and leads to cart track. Here, look carefully at the markings and make sure that cart track does not mislead you. The path then crosses cart track a few more times and leads to Močnikovo sedlo together with the track.
Here, at the saddle, we take a sharp left and after a few steps we reach a new crossroads along a wide path. Go left again for the route Stegovnik. The path soon leads to another track. This is the track we have been following since before the saddle. Follow this cart track for about 5 minutes to where the path to Stegovnik branches off to the right. After an initial climb, the path quickly becomes gently sloping and crossing to the right leads to a torrential ravine. Here the path begins to climb steeply along the torrent, which it crosses at the upper part and leads us to the other side. Here the steepness eases again and the path leads us through a beautiful forest to a saddle called Pri lojtri.
Here we continue sharp right in the direction of Brsnina (left Javornik, straight Stegovnik) along the marked path, which first climbs moderately through dense forest, then lays down and leads us to a cart track, which the marked path just crosses, and we follow it to the right. Follow cart track first to a small lookout pass, and from there continue slightly left, along a fainter track to the nearby south-west ridge of Rus. The ascent continues along a fainter, but well-traced, track which continues along and along the aforementioned ridge. Higher up, the path climbs over a short, very steep slope, where there is a possibility of slipping, especially in wet conditions. At the top of this steep section, you reach the summit, from which you descend a short way and then climb to the main summit of Ruša.

On the way: Močnikovo sedlo (1315m), Pri lojtri (1486m)

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