Ljubljanica - Sivka

Access to the starting point:
First we drive to Horjul (to get here from Dobrova near Ljubljana or Vrhnika), then we continue driving towards Vrzdenc, Šentjošt and Gorenjska vas. At Vrzdenec, the road starts to climb steeply, and then a little further on leads to a serpentine, in the middle of which the road to Šentjošt and Smrečje branches off to the left. Continue right along the main road, which soon leads to a small pass, at the end of which the road branches off to the right towards the village of Samotorica. Continue straight ahead and the road starts to descend steeply and after a short descent leads to the hamlet of Ljubljanica (lower part of Butajnova), where you reach the next crossroads. As there are no suitable parking spaces in the hamlet, turn right and continue driving towards Polhov Gradec. After a further 100 m, you will see a suitable parking place on the right hand side.

The starting point can also be reached from the route of Polhov Gradec and Gorenjska vas.

Path description:
From the starting point, walk first to the hamlet of Ljubljanica, then continue towards Gorenje village at the crossroads. Just a few metres further along the road, you will see mountain direction signs for Butajnova, Mountain pasture and Setnik, which direct you sharp right onto the ascending asphalt road. Continue climbing along the road for some time, and then the signs direct you to a marked footpath.

From the point where you leave the road, you first ascend the cart track, which then turns into a rather overgrown path, which you quickly follow back to the road. We get on the road just at a small crossroads where the road to Kurja vas branches off to the left, and we continue straight on the ascending road, which quickly leads us to Butajnovo.

Just past the fire house and chapel in Butajnova, a road branches off to the right, and within a minute's walk we reach the church of St Anne in Butajnova.

From the church, follow the road back a few 10 m and then continue along the road towards the northern part of the village. Soon you will come to a marked crossroads where you continue left in the route Mountain pasture. The road passes the last houses and then continues in a gentle ascent over open pastures. A little higher up, the road enters woods, where it continues to climb gently to moderately for some time, then completely flattens out after passing a quarry. Soon we emerge from the forest onto the grassy hayfields Mountain pasture above Horjul. The increasingly scenic road then leads us in a gentle ascent to the village, where signs direct us to the relatively steep cart track, which we climb in a few minutes of further walking to the Church of St Andrew.
From the church, continue north-westwards and descend quickly to the tarmac road, which you reach at the chapel. From the chapel, turn right and within a few minutes reach the hamlet of Zameja, where signs direct you left onto a side road which turns into cart track after the last farm, which leads you across a pasture with a slight incline. At the second part of the pasture, cart track starts to disappear, and we continue slightly left to the edge of the woods, where we merge with the path through the woods.
Continue straight ahead or slightly right before the forest, where a wide track appears. The path ahead leads through the forest, where you walk along and along the ridge of Zlatný vrh, and the hill Gabrovo with the quarry is bypassed on the right. There is a slight downhill and past a large chapel we reach an asphalt road, which we cross at a crossroads and continue on the path in the direction of the hiking trail (left down Lučine, left up a few farms slightly to the right Lomovec and Sivka on the road - there is no road to the top), at which higher up we see a few signs with the inscription "Friends of Sivka" (Friends of Sivka) written on them. After a few minutes of climbing, the forest ends and we are only a short walk away from the top of the mountain on the scenic top slope.
To the right of the summit is the mountain registration box, to the left of the summit is the registration box of the Friends of Sivka.
Ljubljanica - Butajnova 0:35, Butajnova - St. Andrej 0:40, St. Andrej - Sivka 1:10.

On the way: Sveta Ana (Butajnova) (686m), Sveti Andrej (Planina nad Horjulom) (798m)

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