Ljubenske Rastke - Komen

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Maribor motorway, take the Šentrupert exit and follow the road towards Logarska dolina. In the village Ljubno ob Savinji, the sign for Smrekovec points to the right. The road then takes you through the centre of the village, where you turn left again after the Smrekovec sign. The road then leads to Ljubenske Rastke, where you park in the parking lot near the church.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the left-hand road in the direction of Travnik and Komno (straight home to Smrekovec). After a few steps of walking, you will see an electricity pole on the right-hand side of the outbuilding and a mountain sign on it, which directs you to the left on a footpath that climbs over a short grassy slope. The path then goes quickly into the wods, where it continues in a cross-climb. After a few minutes' walk, a wide cart track joins us from the left, after which we continue our ascent. Just a little further on, the cart track turns sharp right, and we continue straight on (this part of the path is less well marked). The partly stony cart track which we are climbing up then makes a slight left turn and then leads us out of the wods, where we will see a ruined chapel on the right-hand side of the path.
After the chapel the path disappears and we continue across the meadow to cart track which we follow to the right to a small abandoned hamlet. At the hamlet, cart track turns left and just a few steps further on, signs direct us right onto a footpath which begins to climb steeply through the forest. Higher up, the path leaves the wods onto grassy slopes over which you climb to an asphalted road (road access is also possible).
Continue climbing along the asphalt road, which you can follow in the direction of Komno at the crossroads. Higher up, the road leads to a crossroads at which we see signs for Komen, which direct us to a road closed to traffic. This road is then followed for only a short time, as we will soon notice a faded direction sign directing us right into the forest. After a few steps of ascent through the forest, the path leads us to the NOB Memorial.
Continue your ascent in the direction of the hospital along the path, which soon leads to a marked crossroads. Continue slightly right in the direction of Komno (slightly left hospital Celje and Travnik) on the path that leads us higher on the forest road which we follow to the left, but only for a short time, as the markings then direct us right on the footpath. A moderately steep path through the forest then leads us to a small cross where an unmarked path from the valley of the Žep stream joins us from the left. Continue on the path, which climbs crosswise through the forest, but when it emerges from the forest it turns sharp left, where it passes the Bezovec peak where the hunting observation post is located. Follow the signs carefully as the path leads you through many crossroads of forest roads and tracks. The not to steep path then leads us to the Calf Furnace, where a small wooden house stands. Here the path turns right and starts to climb more steeply. Higher up, the path joins cart track which is then followed to the top slope of Komno. Higher up, the path passes out of the wods onto grassy slopes that are increasingly more scenic, and then climbs up to a small wooden chapel (dedicated to St Cyril and Methodius), where there is also a crossroads. Continue straight up towards Komno (left Travnik, right Smrekovec) along the path, which after 10 minutes of further walking leads us to a scenic peak.

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