Podkočna - Jamnikov spodmol

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Lipce and turn right towards Jesenice. Just after the Lipce settlement on our right, the road descends and in less than a kilometre brings us to a crossroads at a bridge over the Sava River. Here we continue driving slightly left or straight in the direction of Podmežakle. After a short uphill drive, below the top of the hill, you will see a bus stop and a large turning point on the left side of the road. Park here.

Path description:
From the starting point, follow the road back to the crossroads by the bridge over the Sava River, and continue straight ahead to the first house on the right, which is located below the hillside. A few metres further on, where you come across a fountain, take the asphalted path that leads uphill behind the house to the right. After a few steps, the path turns sharp left and loses its asphalt surface. Continue uphill past the last house on the right and shortly afterwards, on the same side, turn into a small tunnel under the railway line. On the other side of the tunnel, the path turns right at right angles and briefly heads uphill to the west, before turning sharp left as the path joins from the right, under the motorway viaduct.
Continue eastwards on the other side of the viaduct, following the path uphill, with views across the motorway to Koroška Biała. The path quickly leads us close to a garden fence and a house on the slope on the right. Here, at the end of the fence, turn first right and after a few steps left onto a track that climbs up the grass to a macadam road. After a few metres, you can see a path into the woods on the right, which you can follow, and continue towards the summit. In the forest, the path soon turns sharp right and leads to an electricity power line, where you leave the wider path and head left, up a steeper incline, onto a track that climbs alongside the power line. After a few minutes' climb, the path turns left and leads over a small embankment to the asphalted road Jesenice - Bled (also the start of the marked path to Mežakla).
Cross the road carefully and continue along it for some 10 m towards the village of Kočna. At a small parking lot, located about 50 m before the local sign, turn left onto the path leading into the forest. After a few steps it turns left, and we leave it a few metres later and turn slightly (not perpendicularly!) right. About 30 m ahead of you, you will see a transition from the denser part of the forest to the hillside, where you will find a path. This leads quickly into the thinner forest below the steep western slope of hill Žerjavec (Couches).
Looking straight up the slope here, with a little attention, you can see a darker opening at the foot of the rock face - Jamnikov spodmol - about 50 m higher up. During the pathless climb up the grassy, forest slope towards the goal, we will cross a still barely visible track and soon reach Jamnikov spodmol at 720 m.

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