Jesenice (Ukova) - Španov vrh

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice take the exit Lipce, where you turn right towards Jesenice. At the Slovenski Javornik settlement, turn left at the traffic light junction towards the town centre. At the second traffic lights (by the gymnasium), turn right back towards Tomšičeva cesta, passing the primary school on the left. After the school, cross the pedestrian crossing and immediately turn into the first (narrower) street on the left. After going up it for 10 metres, you will see a marked parking area on the right. This is our starting point.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road uphill, and after 10 m you will see the Ukova summer bathing site on the left and the road on the right, which branches off uphill to the north into the forest.
Take the latter and follow it for a short distance, i. e. to the right-hand bend before which there is a fenced water reservoir on the same side. On the other - left - side, take the path that intersects the double curve of the road you have left. Here you will come across the first markings of the path Ukova - Dom Pristava. Cross the road again quickly and take the path as it begins to climb northwards. As it starts to turn left, it joins the cart track, by which you will see a signpost. Here, bear right along cart track, which leads quickly to a small bridge over the Ukova stream. As soon as we have crossed, we see a path on the left leading up northwards. Stepping onto it, you leave the marked path and see a bench by the stream on the right. After a few steps uphill, the path appears to end in a stream bed, but in fact it turns sharp left at this point, steeply uphill. As we gain metres, we hear to our right the sound of the left branch of the Ukova stream, which occasionally meanders deep below us. After a while, as the path widens a little, the steepness eases, and we come across a small sign (a cross) on a tree on the path on our left. Soon afterwards, when we notice a small waterfall and a larger rock on our right, the path leads us to the vicinity of an old water reservoir, past which our path continues in the same direction. Slightly higher up, we are met by two small, old and therefore less reliable wooden bridges. Shortly after the second one, before the marked path leads us back to the main stream bed, we turn left uphill by a small stream. On partly waterlogged terrain, the path soon leads us again to the vicinity of the main stream, along which we climb up to a forest road in the immediate vicinity of Jesenišký Rovt on our right, which we can also visit in passing. Once on the road, follow it to the left, which soon leads to the fortified forest road Prihodi - Križovec. Turn right and walk along it for 10 - 15 minutes, then on its left-hand side you will see cart track, which turns sharp left uphill through a short lane of forest. Once on it, it quickly leads to an open glade, where after a few 10 m it turns first right and soon (near the weekend house) also left. After that, we overlok the right fork and continue on cart track across the livade in the route NW. At a very long right turn, you will see a left turn-off, where you turn in a different - easterly - direction. After crossing a short lane of wods, we find ourselves again in an open meadow or pasture, where the path turns left in a northerly direction. Our cart track is almost lost in the pasture, and in the same direction we see another cart track or path climbing uphill. As we approached it, we crossed the marked path Smučarski dom Črni Vrh - Dom Pristava. Following this cart track, although it soon gets lost, we reach the saddle on the ski slope below the summit itself, or the upper station of the Španov Vrh chairlift, which is on our right, just a few minutes' walk uphill.

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