Planina (Dolnja Planina) - Petričev hrib (via Zavrtniki)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the motorway Ljubljana - Koper, take the exit Unec and then continue driving in the route Mountain pasture. In Mountain pasture, where you join the old road Logatec - Postojna, continue to the left, and we drive along the main road for only a few 10 m, because then just after the parish church of St. Marjeta turn left into the parking lot next to the church.
b) From Logatec or Idrija, drive to Kalce near Logatec, and from there continue along the old road towards Postojna. At the beginning of Mountain pasture, the road from Unec joins from the left, and from here we continue along the main road for only a few more 10 m, because then just after the parish church of St. Marjeta, we turn left into the parking lot next to the church.
c) Take the Postojna, then continue along the old road towards Logatec. At the end of the settlement Mountain pasture you will come to the parish church of St. Marjeta, where you park in the parking lot next to it.

Path description:
From the parking lot, walk first to the main road, cross it carefully, and then continue along the road in the opposite direction to the church. The road quickly turns into cart track, which climbs moderately through the area called Zavrtniki. We climb for a few minutes with beautiful views of Planinsko polje, and then the path takes us into the forest, where we see the first signs for Planinsko gora. A few metres higher, we cross a dirt road, and two additional direction signs direct us to cart track, which climbs through the forest. Climb for a few minutes on the above-mentioned cart track, and then the signs direct you to the left onto a track which climbs gently to the left. A little further on, you reach a crossroads of several tracks, where you continue straight on (left down Mountain pasture past the ruins of the Church of the Holy Spirit, right along the forest logging trail) on the wider cart track, along which you see some yellow arrows (the yellow arrows are markers of some kind). Continue a few steps further along the left-hand cart track, which continues to climb moderately. During the ascent, the path leads us past several signs (small chapels or crosses along the way), and then the path from the quarry joins us on the left.
Here you continue to the right and within a few minutes of further walking you reach the Church of St Mary on Planinska Gora.
To the west of the church, near the forest road, there is a track which crosses the slopes to the west. Follow the track, which leads you higher out of the forest and onto the grassy slopes, where it disappears. Continue ascending along one of the many, mostly less visible paths leading westwards. The path soon leads us to the Petričev hrib lookout (the peak can also be bypassed on the left), from which we descend to a small, inconspicuous saddle between the two peaks. From the saddle, there is only a short climb up a grassy slope.
In fine weather, despite the many paths, orientation is not particularly difficult, but in fog it is very difficult.

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