Topol - Sveti Jakob

Access to the starting point:
a) From Ljubljana, Kranj or Vodice, drive to Medvode and from there continue to Sora. At the crossroads at the beginning of Sora, just after the small bridge, turn left in the direction of Katarina and the village of Trnovec. The road rises above the valley and leads to the beginning of the village Topole, where you park in the large parking lot next to the primary school.
b) First drive to Škofja Loka, and from there continue to Sora. At the end of Sora, turn right towards Katarina and the village of Trnovec. The road rises above the valley and leads to the beginning of the village Topole, where you park in the large parking lot next to the primary school.
c) Leave the Primorska motorway at the Brezovica exit and continue driving in the direction of Dobrova and Polhov Gradec. Continue along the Gradaščice valley, and follow the main road towards Polhov Gradec to a small crossroads where the road turns right towards the villages of Osredek, Topole (Katarina) and Belo (the main road turns off just before the beginning of the village of Hrastenice). When you arrive in the village Topole, the road to the village of Belo branches off sharply to the left at first, and a little further on, the signs for Medvode direct you slightly to the left, onto a road that gradually begins to descend. Before the road starts to descend steeply towards the Ločnica valley, we reach the primary school, where we park in a large parking lot.

Path description:
On the map of the Katarina Tourist Information Centre, which is located at the edge of the parking lot, we can see the signs for St James and the farm pr Mamovc, which direct us to a narrow asphalt road, which climbs past some houses and the farm, with beautiful views. After a few minutes, we reach a small crossroads, from where we continue in the direction of Sv. Jakob and Róg. The asphalt road then climbs over another meadow and then passes the edge of the forest, where the asphalt ends. When you reach the thick forest, leave the macadam road and continue along the forest track, which begins to climb crosswise to the left. After a few minutes of cross-country climbing, you will come out on a narrow macadam road, which you follow to the left (on the right is the homestead on Vihra).
The way ahead takes us along a narrower macadam road for a few minutes, and we follow it to the hamlet Brezovica pri Medvodah (one of the homesteads has a Porent's fountain, restored a few years ago).
The marked trail bypasses the hamlet on the right and then continues along the wide cart track, from which we have a beautiful view of our destination and, in good weather, of the Kamnik and Savinja Alps and the Posavje hills. On the other side of the meadow, the path approaches the forest, where we join the path from Sora and Preska. Here, to, we continue to the left, and we walk along the cart track for only a few more 10 steps, as the signs then lead us to the right on a relatively steep path that continues along the edge of the forest (even if we continue along the cart track we will reach the top). During the ascent we have a nice view towards Polhograjska Grmada, and from the summit, which we reach after a few minutes, we can also see the other peaks of the Polhograjsko hills.

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