Dom Trilobit - Potoški Stol (via Rida)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Lipce and follow the road towards Jesenice. When you reach the semaphoreised junction where you join the old road, turn right in the direction of Žirovnice. Follow this road for only a short distance, as at the next slightly larger junction (traffic lights) continue left in the direction of Javorniški Rovt. The road then passes through an underpass (railway) and then turns left (right Koroška Bela). Follow the road, which starts to climb steeply, in the direction of Javorniški Rovt, but only until the crossroads, where a sharp left turn to the right (straight) leads to the Trilobit home and the Javornik spring (no buses). A little further on, the road leads to the above-mentioned home and the storage lake at the Javornik hydroelectric power station. Park in the unregulated parking lot behind the lake and the Trilobit home (parking in front of the home is not allowed).

Path description:
From the parking lot, take the cart track towards the nature and mining trail. Cart track immediately starts to climb quite steeply on the left side of the stream that you can hear near you. Soon the path leads to a wooden pole where a signpost for mountain pasture Seča directs us to a slightly left path (to the right the spring of Javornik and mountain pasture Stamare). Cart track then leads to the vicinity of the stream along which it climbs to the spring (one of the springs of the Javornik stream). After the spring, cart track turns into a footpath, which climbs quite steeply in places, through a mostly quite overgrown forest. The path then approaches the wall and turns left before it. There is a less steep climb up to a bench, which is not in the best condition. The path continues to climb through increasingly sparse forest so that we occasionally open up beautiful views of the surrounding area. A little further on, we will see an amphitheatre called Rida on the right (to the right leads an unmarked and rather overgrown path towards Belščić). Our route turns left and after a short, not steep climb we reach the signposts at the beginning of mountain pasture Seč.
Here we continue to the right in the direction of Stol and Weinasch (Barentaler Kotschna and Kahlkogel to the left) along a path which climbs gently over partly grassy and rubbly slopes. There is a short descent and the path leads to the scree surrounding the cirque of the Rida. Continue on a gentle traverse, crossing the avalanche slopes (in the central part there is a danger of falling rocks in a short section) and climbing a step higher on the other side of the Rida. The steepness eases further and the increasingly scenic route leads us to the top of the almost unnoticeable Kamnitnik (1 minute). The route continues in a gentle ascent, crossing the slopes to the east and crossing a slightly more distinct gully a little further on.
After a while, the path continues to be gently sloping and increasingly scenic, leading us to a marked crossroads, where an unmarked path branches off to the left up to Weinasch (20 minutes), and we continue straight on the path, which turns slightly to the right and after a few steps downhill leads us to a valley between Weinasch and Potoški Stol (near Vajneže sedlo). The path crosses the valley itself and then climbs more steeply towards the ridge of Potoški Stol. At the ridge, the marked path turns left and we follow it to where it leaves the ridge. We continue straight ahead along the wide and gently sloping ridge until we reach the top of Potoški Stol, which is reached in a walk of some 10 steps.
From the top, you can descend a few dozen metres to the cross on the Potocki Stol. The cross will be harder to find in the fog.
Starting point - mountain pasture Seča 2:00, mountain pasture Seča - Potoški Stol 2:00.

On the way: Planina Seča (1698m), Vajneževo sedlo (1972m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Vajnež, Stol ( 30 min)

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