Ravne - Jerebikovec

Access to the starting point:
a) Leave the Gorenjska motorway at exit Jesenice East (Lipce), then follow signs for Spodnje Gorje and Pokljuka. Continue through Kočna, then arrive at Spodnje Gorje, where you first cross the Rečica stream, and a little beyond the stream, turn right towards Zgornje Laze. Continue along the narrower road that leads through the settlement, and when the settlement Zgornje Laze ends, take the second turning to the right in a small valley where the road turns semicircularly to the left and where there are several crossroads. Further on, start climbing towards the Mežakle plateau, and when the road levels off, pass mountain pasture Strmole and mountain pasture Ravne. At the end of mountain pasture Ravne, continue straight on (to the left, the home of the University of Ljubljana) and start climbing again more visibly. Once on the north-western slopes of Oblek Peak, cart track branches off to the left, leading to the nearby mountain pasture Spodnji Kozjek, and we continue along the wider macadam road, which leads us a little further to a crossroads with a marked parking area (sign P on the TNP pole), and we continue along the wider road, which gradually turns into a more flatter world. There are a few more junctions where you follow the wider road, and then park at the next marked parking lot in a suitable place.
b) Take the Bled, then continue driving towards Pokljuka. Towards the end of the settlement Cirque, leave the main road towards Pokljuka and continue downhill to the right towards Radovna, Krma and Mojstrana. After a short descent, cross the river Radovna over a bridge and turn right after the bridge in the direction of Perniki and Zgornje Laz. Continue through Spodnje Laze, and when the settlement ends, the road turns right in a small valley and where there are several crossroads, take the second left. Further on, start climbing towards the Mežakle plateau, and when the road levels off, pass mountain pasture Strmole and mountain pasture Ravne. At the end of mountain pasture Ravne, continue straight on (to the left, the home of the University of Ljubljana) and start climbing again more visibly. Once on the north-western slopes of Oblek Peak, cart track branches off to the left, leading to the nearby mountain pasture Spodnji Kozjek, and we continue along the wider macadam road, which leads us a little further to a crossroads with a marked parking area (sign P on the TNP pole), and we continue along the wider road, which gradually turns into a more flatter world. There are a few more junctions where you follow the wider road, and then park at the next marked parking lot in a suitable place.

Path description:
From the starting point, where cart track turns off to the left, continue along the ascending asphalt road, which quickly leads to a green ramp and a TNP pole with prohibitions and a notice that you are entering the bear area. A few minutes higher, you reach a crossroads, where you continue to the left (the road straight ahead goes in a semicircle around mountain pasture Zgornji Kozjek and above it merges with the road going left, the road going right ends in the forest after a while).
The way ahead leads along a dirt road, from which cart track soon branches off to the right towards the lower part of mountain pasture Zgornji Kozjek, and a little higher up towards the upper part of the aforementioned mountain pasture. In both cases, continue along the road, which becomes quite steep higher up, and then joins the wider road, which bypasses mountain pasture on the upper right-hand side.
The road then ascends to the left, crossing the slopes of the Petelin peak (1448 m>), with occasional fine views of the highest peaks of the Julian Alps. When the road passes to the more western slopes it gradually begins to descend and leads us to the ridge of Mežakla, where it continues with a few short ascents and descents, and when we approach the northern edge of the plateau, it is worth a walk to the nearby lookout point, from which we open a beautiful view of Karawanks and the settlements below us. After leaving the flatter part of the plateau, there is a climb up some serpentine hills, which occasionally still offer nice views, and then the road starts to descend towards mountain pasture Mežakla.
At this point we leave it and continue to the left where the arrow on the TNP pole also points. There follows a few minutes of ascent along the cart track, and when this ends we continue on the path along a worse but traceable path which quickly leads us to the foretop of Jerebikovec. From the summit there is an easy descent, and then along the north-east ridge we reach the top of Jerebikovac, where there is a registration box with a registration book and a stamp, and from where we have a beautiful view of Julian Alps and Karawanks, and in good visibility the view extends all the way to the Carnian and Gailtaler Alps mountains and to the High Tauern.
Description and pictures refer to 2019 (December).

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