Urbas - Potoški Stol

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. Take the road mentioned above (straight ahead Koča pri izviru Završnice), which begins to climb, first gently and then steeply, on a road that is sometimes quite rough (the steepest parts are asphalted). Higher up, the road leads to a slightly larger junction, where you turn left in the direction of Potoška planina (to the right of the literal mountain pasture). The road then lays down and leads us a little further on to the next crossroads, where the road to Valvasor's house branches off to the right, and we continue along the lower left road, which then continues for some time without any major changes in elevation. The road then leads us past the Ajdno trail junction and then starts to climb steeply on a sometimes quite bad road. The road then re-lays and leads us past Potoška planina to the Urbas well, near which there are a few small car parks.
From the bridge to the starting point is about 10 km drive.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we first walk to the Urbas well, and here we see a mountain sign for mountain pasture Belščico, which directs us to the initially slightly more difficult to follow footpath. For the first 15 minutes of the walk, the path is only gentle, but then it starts to climb steeply through the forest. Higher up, the forest becomes thinner and thinner and slowly becomes lane of dwarf pines, and the path begins to turn more and more westwards. After a good hour's walk, we step onto grassy slopes and after a few more steps the path leads us to the bivouac at Belščićica (emergency bivouac).
From the bivouac, continue northwards and after a few steps you will notice a slightly less visible path, which turns sharp right (direction east). Continue along the above-mentioned path, which ascends crosswise over occasionally slightly steeper slopes. A path crossing two more distinct ravines leads us higher up on a marked path, which we follow to the right. After a few steps on the marked path, the path to Weinasch branches off to the left (20 minutes), and we continue straight on the path, which turns slightly to the right and, after a few steps downhill, leads us into the valley between Weinasch and Potoški Stol (near Vajneže sedlo). The path crosses the valley itself and then climbs more steeply towards the ridge of Potoški Stol. At the ridge, the marked trail turns left and we follow it to where it leaves the ridge. We continue straight on along the wide and gently sloping ridge until we reach the top of Potoški Stol, which is reached in a walk of some 10 steps.
From the top, you can descend a few tens of metres to the cross on the Potocki Chair. The cross will be harder to find in the fog.
Urbas - bivouac on Belščićica 1:15, bivouac on Belščićica - Potoški Stol 1:00.

On the way: Bivak na Belščici (1750m), Vajneževo sedlo (1972m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Vajnež, Stol (1 h)

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