Starting point: Gotenica (550 m)
Lat/Lon: | 45,6148°N 14,7459°E |
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Time of walking: 1 h 30 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 531 m
Altitude difference po putu: 531 m
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Recommended equipment (summer): helmet
Recommended equipment (winter): helmet, ice axe, crampons
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Access to the starting point:
From Ljubljana, we drive to Kočevje. Shortly after Ribnica, near Dolenja vas, we will see signs for the villages Grčarice, Gotenica and Kočevska Reka, which will direct us off the main road to the right. Follow the road to the beginning of the village Gotenica, where just 50m before the old petrol station you will see a parking lot and next to it the mountain signs for Goteniški Snežnik (the starting point is on the right side of the road, just a few metres before the sign for the beginning of Gotenice).
The starting point can also be reached from the route of Kočevska Rijeka.
Path description:
From the parking lot, the signs for Goteniški Snežnik direct you to a wide footpath that first gently descends to a torrential stream and then begins to climb. After a short climb, you will come to a wide cart track, which you follow to the right. Cart track, which runs partly through the forest and partly through small clearings, leads higher up to a crossroads, where it continues sharp left.
The ascent continues along cart track, which passes through a dense forest and turns into a relatively steep footpath only a little further on. The above-mentioned path gently bends higher up and starts to turn slightly to the left, where it reaches the very steep slopes of the Stone Wall. There is a risk of slipping here due to the relatively narrow path, which is often covered with foliage. The path from which we start to get beautiful views of the surrounding area is also exposed to falling rocks on this steep part.
Higher up, the path turns right and leads us along a relatively steep ascent, which again passes through the forest, to a small preval, where we see the signs for the Kameni zid lookout point. Here we turn right onto a poorly trodden path which, within two minutes of further ascent, takes us to the top of the Kameni Zid (Stone Wall).
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