Završniško jezero - Smokuški vrh (via Brezniške peči)

Access to the starting point:
From the motorway Ljubljana - Jesenice, take the exit Lesce, where at the roundabout take the old road in the direction of Žirovnice and Jesenice. After a few km of driving, pass the crossroads where the road to Žirovnica branches off to the right. After crossing the Završnica viaduct, you will see a turn-off on the right, which you should take (turn sharp right). Immediately you will come to a small crossroads where you turn left, and in the next one (after about 50 m) turn right, in the direction of Završnica. After a short descent, the road climbs slightly for a while, then flattens out and leads to a place where a macadam road branches off to the left towards Valvasor's house. Just a little further on, on the right, you can see a large parking lot, which is located at the beginning of the artificial lake Završnica. Here is our starting point.

Path description:
From the parking lot, cross the concrete bridge that crosses the lake. On the other side, on the right, you will see a forked path leading into the forest. Take the left (upper) one to climb to the top of the ridge. The path runs out quite quickly, and we head slightly to the left towards the top, where we eventually come across a fairly wide path leading right towards the top of the ridge. When we get there, we have a view of the other side, where Žirovnica and Moste are located, which is also where the trail from the south side leads here. Turn left (eastwards), along a pleasant, well-trodden path, onto the ridge towards Mali Vrch. Soon we have a view back to Jesenice to the west, while to the left in the valley we can partly observe the lake in Završnica.
At the signposts, continue straight on towards Gosjak (on the right Sveti Lovrenc). Soon, the path descends slightly from the top of Malý Vrch and then lies down for a while. On the right edge of the ridge we are occasionally invited to beautiful viewpoints. On the left side of one of these we observe interesting cliffs (Peči), along which the path on the right side leads us further along the ridge towards the next peak, Gosjak. Before we climb it, we come across a sign (a cross) and a bench on the left. Here our path crosses the valley, and we continue straight along the ridge, where we encounter rocks, which we climb a little, and so first on the left and then on the right side of the ridge we climb to the top of Gosjak, where for the first time we get a slightly closer view of the Smokuč peak. Later on the right we see another lookout point with a bench above Doslovče, a small hut a little further on the left and then a water reservoir (here the wider path from Doslovče crosses Gosjak). The path continues steeply uphill to the right of the reservoir, where we soon come across rocks again, which are partly climbed over the so-called Golovec. We are on the narrowest part of the ridge. The steepness of most of the rocky ridge, while climbing up Golovec 2-3 times, only slightly eases, and the demanding scenic route finally climbs steeply for the last time towards Smokuškemu Vrhu, where we first encounter a neat bench with a registration book, and after a further 15-minute walk, where the ridge is already widening, and the destination of the route, - a lookout point with "benches" on the top position of the ridge. There is a high risk of slipping when ascending and descending Gosjak and Golovec in the wet!

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