Poljana (Završnica) - Hochstuhl/Stol (Zabreška pot)

Access to the starting point:
From the Ljubljana - Jesenice motorway, take the Lesce exit and follow the road towards Žirovnica and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, you will come to a crossroads where the road to Žirovnica and Moste turns right (from Jesenice, left). Just a few metres further, at the next crossroads, turn left into Moste (right into Žirovnica). Continue past the memorial to the fallen fighters, where the road starts to climb uphill under the railway line. At the top of the hill, turn right (at the Vila Karin sign) and we continue towards Završniškem jezero and Valvasor's home. The road then bends and leads to a crossroads where the road to Valvasor's home branches off to the left. Here you continue straight on towards Završnice and then park after 100 m in a nicely laid out asphalt parking lot.

Path description:
From the parking lot, return along the asphalt road to the crossroads, and from there continue in the direction of Valvasorjev dom pod Stolom and Potoška mountain pasture. From the crossroads, walk along the scenic macadam road for a while, and then the markings and signs for Valvasor's House direct you left onto the marked footpath, which descends gently to the nearby Rečica stream. Cross the footbridge over the stream, then arrive at a larger meadow, over which you ascend gently to the left. On the other side of the meadow, the path enters the forest and turns into the relatively steep cart track, which ascends to an indistinct saddle between the peaks of Sivo ribro and Smolnik.
From here, continue along cart track for a short distance, and then the signs direct you to the right onto a footpath that climbs cross-cutting over a short, broken slope. The well-maintained path then turns left and continues to climb across the occasionally steeper slopes of Smolnik Peak. All the time quite a wide path, leads us higher to the forest road, which we just cross. On the other side of the road, continue to the right and continue the ascent along a less well-marked path, which also has some unmarked shortcuts higher up. Follow this path, which is slightly more difficult in the upper part due to the numerous paths, all the way to Valvasor's house under Hochstuhl.
From Valvasor's house, turn right onto the footpath towards Hochstuhla. The trail soon goes into the forest, where it climbs slightly and leads to a small crossroads, where it continues to the right. The path then leads out of the forest, where it crosses the slopes below Monštranca. Follow this gently sloping and partly scenic path, which crosses a short lane of forest a little further on, to the crossroads at Žirovniška mountain pasture.
Continue slightly right in the direction "Hochstuhl - Zabreška pot" (Hochstuhl Žirovniška pot on the left) along an initially harder to follow path which soon turns into a forest. It is about half an hour's walk along a path that mostly crosses the southern slopes of Hochstuhla. Just a little further from where the path from Zabreška planina joins us from the right, the marked path leading to Hochstuhl starts to climb more steeply. A little further on, we come out of the forest on Stara planina, where the newer "Betonska bajta" stands. After the byte, the path turns slightly to the right and starts to climb even steeper, first through the forest and then across increasingly scenic slopes, partly covered with dwarf pines. The way ahead leads quickly past the pleasant resting place "Pri Janezu" to Finžgarjeva skala (here we will notice a stand of auricles in the spring months). The way ahead, which continues along the increasingly scenic grassy slope, turns quite to the left higher up and occasionally starts to lose its way. Ahead, you can see Prešeren's Cottage, which you reach after a further 30 minutes of walking.
From the hut, continue slightly to the right, where you will pass a sign and climb a few steps to the top of Mali Stol. A short descent follows and the path leads us to the saddle between the two Stolos, where there is also a marked crossroads. Continue in the direction of Stol (right Klagenfurter Hutte and Zelenica) along the cross path, which after 10 minutes of further walking leads us to the highest peak of the Karavanke Mountains.

On the way: Valvasorjev dom pod Stolom mountain hut (1181m), Prešernova koča na Stolu mountain hut (2174m), Mali Stol (2198m)

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