Golnik - Tolsti vrh (via Kriška goro)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Kranj - west and follow the road in the route Golnika. When you reach Golnik, turn right at the top of the ramp in the direction of Golnik Hospital. Park in one of the large car parks located slightly below the hospital.

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk to the hospital, just around it on the left, and then come to the mountain direction signs, which direct you to the footpath that climbs along the fence. After a few steps, cross the road, and then the path that climbs above the village leads into the forest, where it begins to climb steeply. After a short climb, the path joins the wide cart track, which continues the easy ascent. After a few minutes, a marked footpath branches off to the right from cart track, which soon leads to another cart track, which is also soon abandoned. We continue our ascent along a rather steep path, which leads us higher up to a lookout point (view of Gorenjska and Jelovica).
After the lookout point, the path is laid and turns quite to the left, where it then continues in a moderate ascent. Higher up, the trail turns slightly to the right, where a few minutes of further walking leads to the village of Gozd. Here, continue past a few houses and then join the path from the Shelter in Gozd.
Continue to the right in the direction of Kriška gora and follow the road leading past two consecutive NOB monuments to its end. From the end of the road, turn slightly left and continue the ascent along the wide and steep cart track, which quickly leads to a place where it splits into two parts. Cart track then passes a waterworks and a weekend house and enters the forest, where it continues on a moderate ascent.
Only a little further on, the signs for Kriška Gora direct us to the right (straight unmarked path to Kriška Gora) to the slightly more rugged cart track, which turns into a relatively steep path higher up. Continue along a well-maintained path, along which you will notice a number of benches and the names of the benches next to them. Higher up, the path leads to a pasture fence and turns to the left only slightly higher up, where it then climbs cross-cuttingly. After a few minutes of cross-climbing, we emerge from the forest, where we see Koča na Kriški gori ahead of us, only a few 10 steps of easy walking away.
From the hut we go back a few steps, and then continue in the direction of Tolstego vrh. The way forward climbs gently up and along the main ridge of Kriška gora, then gradually moves to the southern slopes, where it crosses the slopes of Vrat. The way forward then gradually returns to the ridge, along and along which it then continues for some time. Higher up, we reach a vista from which we get our first closer view towards the summit. There is a short descent, and then the path begins to climb steeply up the mountain slope. Higher up, we cross a short lane of forest, and then an increasingly scenic route quickly leads us to the 1715 m high summit. Golnik - Gozd 1:00, Gozd - Kriška gora 1:30, Kriška gora - Tolsti vrh 1. 00.

On the way: Gozd (891m), Koča na Kriški gori mountain hut (1471m)

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