Lipa - Tolsti vrh (Dobrovlje)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Celje take the exit Vransko. Continue driving along the old road in the direction of Ljubljana, but only to the point where the road to Vransko branches off to the right. On the west side of Vransko you will see a road heading towards the village of Prapreče and Vologa. Follow the road, which then starts to climb steeply, through the village of Vologa to the Lipa Prevala, where you park in one of the car parks.
Access from the Zadrečka valley is also possible.

Path description:
From the Lipa prevala, follow the footpath in the direction of St. Jošto. The path, which follows the cart track, climbs steeply at the beginning, then the steepness eases slightly. There follows a cross-climb through the forest on a path which, after about 30 minutes' walk, approaches a forest road, which can be seen slightly above the waymarked path. Continue climbing parallel to the road for a while, then join it and follow it to the right. After a few more steps, the path leads out of the wods and onto the grassy hay meadows. Here, a path branches off to the left up to the Church of St Gervazi and St Protazi, which is less than a 3-minute walk away.
We continue straight along the road, which leads us just a little further to the registration box at the Church of St. Jost.
After a few steps of walking from the registration box, we arrive at a marked crossroads where we continue slightly left in the direction of Tolstega vrha (slightly right Vransko). We continue our ascent along the wide gently sloping cart track, which leads us over a scenic slope to the forest edge where we arrive at a small unmarked crossroads. Continue along the left ascending cart track (the right one is lost in grassy hayfields), which gradually turns into a forest road. The road then gradually starts to descend, and a direction signpost with the inscription "change of route - via Paglavci" is seen along the road. The well-marked road through the forest then soon leads us to the NOB monument. The road leads us just a little further out of the forest, where we come to the next crossroads, where we continue to the left in the direction of Tolstega vrha. Just a few steps further on, the road splits into two parts. Continue slightly left along the road, which quickly turns into cart track. Further on, you reach a maze of dirt tracks, but if you follow the signs carefully you can't miss them. Cart track then turns into a dense forest and after a while turns sharp right. Cart track then climbs a little steeper and starts to turn to the left. Only a little further on, however, frequent mountain markings direct us to the right on a slightly less well-trodden footpath, which in a short climb quickly leads us to Tolsti vrh. Just a few steps below the top, a beautiful view of Kamnik Savinja Alps opens up to our left, and the path from our home on Čreta joins us from the right.
Lipa - Sveti Jošt 35 minutes, Sveti Jošt - Tolsti vrh 1:05.

On the way: Sveti Jošt above Vransko (955m)

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