Širje - Kopitnik

Access to the starting point:
From Sevnica or Celje, drive to Zidani Most, where you head towards Hrastnik. At the end of the village of Zidani Most, signs for the Church of Our Lady Širje direct you right up a narrow asphalt road that climbs steeply. When the steepness of the road eases, you will see a roadside parking lot on the right hand side of the road, where you park.
From Hrastnik, drive towards Zidane Most. Shortly after the village Suhadol, the road to the church of Marija Širje turns sharp left. Continue as described above.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road, which takes you across a large meadow to the church in the village in five minutes. Just a few steps away from the church, signs direct you to the left on a path that goes between the houses. Behind the houses, take the cart track, which leads to a macadam road after a few minutes. Follow this road, which climbs moderately and gets worse and worse, until it emerges from the forest. Here, continue right up the cart track, which takes you past a double trestle (greenhouse) and leads you to a fork in the road.
Continue along the marked path towards Gora. The path continues through the forest again, where it climbs crosswise. After a while, the path turns right and shortly afterwards passes out of the forest onto grassy slopes, where the steepness also eases. A short walk across the meadow is followed by a crossroads. Here you continue straight on the unmarked cart track, which quickly leads you to the road. Here, follow the road slightly left downhill to a crossroads, where you will see signs for Kopitnik. After a few minutes the road becomes gravel and occasionally gently descends. After a further few minutes' walk, you will come to a triangular crossroads where you turn right towards Kopitnika. Just a little further on, the marked path from the home in the mountains joins us from the left. We continue here along the road, which leads us in the next few steps to the next crossroads, where we continue to the right in the direction of Kopitnik, koča. This road (which can also be a marked shortcut) then leads us within five minutes to the Kopitnik hut.
From the hut, continue along the path towards the summit. After a few minutes, the path leads to a forest road, where you continue to the left. The road then leads past a playground and then turns into cart track. From cart track, a marked footpath branches off to the left and leads through the forest to the Kopitnik hilltop. There is a short descent and then a climb up a steep and slightly exposed slope. For the last ascent to the top, we have the fixed safety gear to help us, but they are not strictly necessary. More caution is needed at the very top, as the summit is narrow and precipitous.

On the way: Koča na Kopitniku (865m)

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